High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Hollaback Girl" is a song by American recording artist Gwen Stefani from her debut solo album, Love. Angel. Music. Baby. (2004). As part of Stefani`s vision of creating "a silly dance record", the song is influenced by 1980s dance and pop music. The song was written by Stefani, Pharrell Williams, and Chad Hugo as a response to Courtney Love`s statement that Stefani was a "cheerleader" in an interview with Seventeen magazine.