No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani sang on "Saw Red," making it into a duet running 1:57; she used to go out with Sublime lead singer Brad Nowell. On the Sublime: Stories, Tales, Lies & Exaggerations DVD, Stefani explained that Nowell wrote the song in the studio and did his vocal in one take.
Brad Nowell and Gwen Stefani act out a toxic relationship in this song that starts sweet but turns ugly, and maybe even homicidal when Nowell sees red. "One more secret lover that I shot dead," he sings. An alternate interpretation is that Nowell is singing about heroin, the drug that killed him two years later when he overdosed.
"Saw Red" was released before either Sublime or No Doubt were famous. Both groups rose to fame in the mid-'90s on the Southern California punk scene that also featured Green Day and the Offspring and was fathered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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