Courtney Love had made about her in an interview with teen magazine Seventeen.
"Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed."
Stefani responded in the March 2005 issue of NME:
"Y'know someone one time called me a cheerleader, negatively, and I've never been a cheerleader. So I was, like, "OK, **** you. You want me to be a cheerleader? Well, I will be one then. And I'll rule the whole world, just you watch me."