- 2024-09-20
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MUSIC
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Gwen Stefani Announces New Album “Bouquet”, Shares New Song “Somebody Else's”
American singer-songwriter Gwen Stefani has announced her upcoming fifth studio album “Bouquet” will be released on November 15, 2024 via Interscope Records.
This marks her first album in eight years since the 2016 album “This Is What the Truth Feels Like”, except the 2017 Christmas album “You Make It Feel Like Christmas”.
The album comprises a 10-track, featuring collaboration with Blake Shelton, produced by Scott Hendricks.
From the album, she released a new song “Somebody Else's” on September 20, 2024.
The song is the second single off of the album, following “Purple Irises” released back in February.
The track was written by Gwen Stefani, Fred Ball, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Nick Long, Madison Love, Jake Torrey, and Henry Walter.
Gwen Stefani told Rolling Stone about the song, “It's interesting that this song rose to become to the new single, because the rest of the record has nothing to do with that subject.”- She continued, “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.”
She added, “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.' 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 told Rolling Stone about the album, “It's not a country record. It's all the stuff I listened to in the station wagon on the way to church. Yacht rock, though it wasn't called yacht rock then. The music I listen to now, I wanted this album to reflect that. I wanted it to be one big statement, and that's why I feel Bouquet is a really perfect title. Like each song was handpicked with meaning.”
Photo by Ellen Von Unwerth - source : Apple Music
