A whole album about being in love with Blake Shelton? Enter at your own risk.
It’s been a whole eight years since Gwen Stefani put out her last studio album,. At the time, she was newly in a relationship with Blake Shelton, the country singer who she met on the set of. Both Stefani and Shelton were freshly divorced at the time of getting together, and most people wrote off their relationship as a rebound. Nearly a decade later, Stefani’s new albumIt kicks off, however, with a kiss-off. Stefani’s ex-husband, Gavin Rossdale of Bush, seems the likely target.
It’s all appreciation for the most part, except for a couple of moments where the past threatens to drag Stefani “back to who I was” on, which references the flowers they picked and replanted that are now growing in their garden. Shelton gets the cringiest line on the record – “It’s not 2014, but you still look good in those jeans” – but the addition of his voice is welcome after hearing Gwen gush solo for the preceding eight tracks.
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