Spiderwebs

This song was written by Gwen Stefani and her bandmate Tony Kanal. It's about a girl who is frustrated because an annoying guy keeps calling her. Despite her efforts to blow him off, he keeps calling, meaning she now has to screen her phone calls. Stefani and Kanal were a couple for seven years, and many of the songs on the Tragic Kingdom album deal with their breakup. This one, though, is not about Kanal.

There was a real caller who inspired this song. "I always had a boyfriend, so I never had to deal with guys trying to go out with me," Stefani explained in a video No Doubt posted. "But there was this one guy and he used to call me in the middle of the night and try to sing me poetry on the phone or play acoustic guitar for 15 minutes. I didn't know how to get off the phone. Giving this guy my number was the biggest regret of my life." She says the guy doesn't know the song is about him, and she and Kanal are the only ones who know his identity.

With the refrain, "Leave a message and I'll call you back," this became a popular song for people to leave as a message on their answering machines.