Gwen Stefani criticizes former partner harshly in intense new track ‘Somebody Else’s’ | “Music”

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Gwen Stefani ain't no hollaback woman, however payback is one other story.

The pop icon launched Friday a blistering preview of her upcoming album Bouquet, with the album's second single “Somebody Else's” arriving as a scathing takedown of an unnamed ex-lover.

Throughout the New Wave-soft rock hybrid tune, the 54-year-old slams her former flame as a “narcissistic, semi-psychotic” nuisance, and particulars how he “manipulated” her coronary heart — sufficient in order that the unidentified get together is now “dead to me” in the aftermath.

“You gaslit my world, it was burning,” she sings. “Had to leave before it stopped turning. So happy I could cry, 'cause you're not mine.”

Gwen Stefani.

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Earlier in the tune, she questions her place in a previous relationship, singing, “I found the real thing, you don't compare and I don't care,” a transparent nod to her present marriage to fellow singer-songwriter Blake Shelton.

“You're somebody else's and it doesn't even break my heart, you're somebody else's and I pray for them wherever they are,” Stefani expresses in the refrain. “Look at me blossom, you're somebody else's problem.”

Though Stefani would not explicitly identify anybody in the track's lyrics, followers will naturally join the tune to her extremely publicized former relationships, notably her No Doubt bandmate Tony Kanal or Gavin Rossdale, the latter of whom she married in 2002 and had three youngsters with, earlier than the couple divorced in 2015. That breakup additionally impressed parts of Stefani's 2016 album This Is What the Truth Feels Like, which grew to become her first solo studio set to achieve No. 1 in the United States upon its launch after spawning singles “Used to Love You” and “Misery.”

Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a consultant for Stefani for remark.

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In a current interview with Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes' Amy & T.J. podcast, the Bush band chief opened up about his divorce from Stefani and its lasting impression on his household.

“I feel bad for my kids, that's it,” Rossdale mentioned on the episode. “That would be the most profound thing, of like, I wish I could have just figured out a way to not have that in their lives.” Reflecting on his personal upbringing and the way it influenced his music, he added, “It wasn't fun for me to be from a broken home. I think in a way it gave me a career so I don't mind, because I turned it around into sort of an interesting career path, but it can be quite debilitating for kids… The overriding thing is like, you don't want to let your kids down.”

Bouquet is out Nov. 15, almost 20 years to the day after the discharge of her debut solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby‘s 2004 launch. Listen to “Somebody Else's” above.

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