Josh Schwartz Dishes on No Doubt Cameo

It's no secret that No Doubt has a thing for the '80s.

In 2003, they released a cover of Talk Talk's 1984 hit "It's My Life," which earned them a Grammy nomination. Then, last Wednesday, Ryan Seacrest posted a link to yet another cover, this one of Adam & the Ants' 1981 track "Stand and Deliver."

This is the song the band will perform on the May 11 episode of Gossip Girl, which serves as a "backdoor pilot" for the spin-off series featuring young Lily.

Gossip Girl executive producer Josh Schwartz filled MTV in on some details about the episode and No Doubt's performance on it, the band's first on TV.

"As you know, they're reuniting, they're going on tour, and they wanted to do a TV appearance and reached out to us on Gossip Girl," Schwartz said.

"We came back and asked, 'What about being an '80s band?' So they came on as 'Snow Doubt' and did a cover of Adam & the Ants' 'Stand and Deliver.' It was amazing."

Schwartz said the episode will serve as the jump-off point for the Gossip Girl spinoff, which focuses on the wild, rock-and-roll youth of Eric and Serena van der Woodsen's mom, Lily - which explains the cameo by the faux '80s rockers.

"It's about Serena's mom Lily growing up in L.A. in the '80s. And the pilot will air as a series of flashbacks inside the May 11 episode of Gossip Girl," Schwartz said.

"We've finished shooting it all, and it all looks great."