Gwen Stefani Opens Up On ‘Really Bad Year’ With Blake Shelton
Gwen Stefani is coming back to the world of music with her first new studio album in nearly 10 years. While it is exciting time for the artist, she admits that it comes at the end of a “really bad year.” Continue reading to see what she revealed.
Gwen Stefani Talks About ‘Really Bad Year’
The last time Gwen Stefani released an album was in 2017. It was a holiday record called “You Make It Feel Like Christmas.” The last album she released with all original material debuted in 2016, “This Is What The Truth Feels Like.”
Her 2016 album was inspired by her love of gardening with her husband Blake Shelton. “Obviously, he has some hobbies that are so far from what I am — I’m like makeup girl — so opposite in so many ways, but we find so much joy in gardening together,” she said of their shared hobby.
The album wrapped up with the song “Purple Irises,” which the duo have performed together on several occasions.
However, Gwen Stefani revealed that their garden hasn’t been doing so well recently. She told Rolling Stone that they had a “really bad year” and that “everything failed” in their garden.
Referring to her new album, “Bouquet,” she said, “I’m blooming an album but my actual garden sucked so bad this year.”
The Last Two Albums Were ‘Healing’ For Gwen
As fans know, her last studio album came at a very different point in Gwen’s life. “Truth” was released a month before her divorce from Gavin Rossdale was finalized. “Bouquet,” on the other hand, is in the middle of her loving marriage to Blake.
“The Truth record was in the middle of my hell,” Gwen Stefani told Rolling Stone. However, both albums served as “healing” for her.
“It seems like eight years probably feels like a long time for a lot of people, but for me, it was eight years of healing, eight years of transitioning, it went really fast,” she said. “It’s interesting that [‘Somebody Else’s’] rose [to become the new single], because the rest of the record has nothing to do with that subject.”
The singer admitted she didn’t see “Somebody Else’s,” a breakup track, fitting in with the rest of the album. Madison Love, a songwriter, convinced her otherwise.
“I get a text from Madison with a start of a song called ‘Somebody Else’s,’ after a bunch of sessions that we’d done, and in those sessions there’s a lot of confession and just talk about life and where we’re at now, where we were,” Gwen stated.
“She came with the idea of this song, and I was like, ‘Uh oh, I don’t even know if I want to give that any energy,'” she continued. “What I kind of realized was, after writing the rest of the songs, it felt you needed to see a little bit of the dark to see the light and see where I’d just come from originally.”
Gwen Stefani’s new studio album “Bouquet” comes out on November 15.
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