{"id":16261,"date":"2021-03-03T17:37:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T17:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=16261"},"modified":"2021-03-03T23:07:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:07:55","slug":"pharrell-williams-hollaback-girl-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/pharrell-williams-hollaback-girl-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharrell Williams Says Naomi Campbell Inspired \u2018Hollaback Girl\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16322\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width size-large wp-image-16322\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/naomi-campbell-pharrell-williams-hollaback-girl.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Naomi Campbell\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naomi Campbell (Photo: Victor Virgile\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While there was some speculation that <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/gwen-stefani-christmas-tree-the-voice-finale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gwen Stefani\u2019s<\/a> 2005 hit song \u201cHollaback Girl\u201d was <em>all<\/em> about Courtney Love, who slammed the<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Love. Angel. Music. Baby, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">singer, producer Pharrell Williams had someone else in mind: supermodel <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/naomi-campbell-no-filter-with-naomi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naomi Campbell<\/a>. \u201cYou told somebody who, was like, trying to speak to you or whatever you were like <em>\u2018I&#8217;m sorry I have a name, like, I&#8217;m not no hollaback girl\u2019<\/em> and I thought that was so amazing and that ended up being the chorus to Hollaback Girl,\u201d Williams told Campbell on her YouTube series, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/demi-moore-nofilter-naomi-campbell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No Filter<\/a>, on Tuesday, March 2. Campbell responded: \u201cI don&#8217;t know who I was talking to, I guess they deserved it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pharrell Williams on Naomi inspiring &quot;Hollaback Girl&quot; | No Filter with Naomi\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-2uOl3Ckt6Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the song was released, Stefani earned her first number one song, and shared the song was the perfect way for her to assert control over her narrative.\u00a0 \u201cI was being bullied by someone and was being called a cheerleader, which was a bad thing!\u201d Stefani remembered in a 2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/8543814\/gwen-stefani-interview-love-angel-music-baby-15th-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Billboard <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">interview<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> celebrating the 15th anniversary of her first solo album, Love. Angel. Music. Baby. \u201cGrowing up, that was not cool. I thought I was the opposite of that. I told Pharrell we should write a song about that.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, Stefani never said Love publicly by name as the culprit but <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Billboard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> points to an interview Love did with <a href=\"https:\/\/holefans2011.webs.com\/apps\/blog\/show\/6739338-rare-seventeen-magazine-interview-with-courtney-love\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Seventeen<\/em> magazine in 2004<\/a>, where Love had said the following: \u201cBeing famous is just like being in high school. But I\u2019m not interested in being the cheerleader. I\u2019m not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She\u2019s the cheerleader, and I\u2019m out in the smoker shed. And plenty of you are out there in the smoker shed too. When it comes to rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, it\u2019s just like high school.\u201d Well, okay then.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Can you keep up? Courtney Love inspired the actual song and music video (check it out below) and Naomi Campbell, according to Pharrell Williams, inspired the chorus. Yeah, this sh*t is bananas \u2014 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">B.A.N.A.N.A.S.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kgjkth6BRRY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28001,"featured_media":16322,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,38,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pharrell Williams Says Naomi Campbell Inspired \u2018Hollaback Girl\u2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pharrell Williams told Naomi Campbell she inspired the chorus of &#039;Hollaback Girl&#039; on her Youtube series, No Filter, on Tuesday, March 2. 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