1995Released
4:33

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Like "Don't Speak," this one has a lyric written by No Doubt frontwoman Gwen Stefani and aimed squarely at bass player Tony Kanal, her boyfriend for seven years. When he broke up with her, she was devastated, but took a hard look at herself, regained her confidence, and wrote some hit songs. In "Sunday Morning" she sings about how she thought she knew him so well until without warning, he took her to splitsville. With No Doubt's upbeat ska inflections, it's a buoyant song where Stefani finds her strength, letting Kanal have it in the bridge: You're on the other side of the mirror So nothing's looking quite as clear Thank you for turning on the lights Thank you, now you're the parasite

When No Doubt caught fire in 1996, a casualty of their fame was their unified front - media attention listed hard to Stefani, and very often she was photographed alone as the face of the band. They earned a victory on May 1, 1997 when Rolling Stone put the entire band on the cover. In the interview, Tony Kanal named "Sunday Morning" his favorite No Doubt song, even though he goes through the wringer in the lyric. Kanal later explained that he didn't really process the breakup until much later - the band was so busy at the time that he never had a chance to ruminate on it.

"Sunday Morning" was pushed as a single to radio and MTV in the spring of 1997, 18 months after the Tragic Kingdom album was released. The band released their first album, which flopped, in 1992, so it took a while for the Tragic Kingdom songs to catch on. When they did, the band was sent on tour and scheduled for a flurry of interviews and appearances, an exhausting pace they kept up for over a year (they performed "Sunday Morning" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on April 11, 1997). They finally got some time off at the end of 1997 and took their sweet time making their next album, Return Of Saturn, which came out in 2000.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Sunday Morning.
EKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
157BPM

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Trauma
© 1995 Interscope Records
℗ 1995 UMG Recordings, Inc.

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