album Gwen Stefani - 'Bouquet'

[skwonderfactory]

Excited!!! But only ten songs???!

[poki]

56 minutes ago, Dark Phoenix said:

@xokuba the lead single from Truth was Make Me Like You 💁🏻‍♂️ it would have been Used To Love You but in that case Purple Irises should be counted as the lead single.

 

Can't wait to hear the song and learn who's the main producer of the album.

 

Is it confirmed that it's 33min long?

Yeah based on the time stamps it's around 33 minutes. But 7 / 10 tracks are over 3 minutes and the shortest track is 2:40 so thankfully Gwen didn't fall too deep into the short-tracks plague of the 2020s 

[iiswhoiis_max]

4 hours ago, xokuba said:

Great album opener, but I wanted something more punchier...

 

 

What Are You Waiting For? > Wind It Up > Misery > Somebody Else's > Jingle Bells

The laugh I let go 

[poki]

Madame Stacy will never release another album. She doesn't talk much about the Double Dutchess experience but the hints we got reveal it was very traumatic behind the scenes. She wanted to make a completely different album back in 2013. 

[Danny789]

I like what I've heard so far. 

[xokuba]

1 hour ago, iiswhoiis_max said:

The laugh I let go 

Well, Bouquet is announced as her fifth album so 

[GwennyGwenGwen]

Somebody Else's
Gwen Stefani, Madison Love, Henry Walter, Nick Long, Fred Ball, Jake Torrey & Jacob Kasher Hindlin

Bouquet
Gwen Stefani, Madison Love, Henry Walter, Nick Long, Fred Ball & Mark Landon

Pretty
Gwen Stefani, Madison Love, Henry Walter & Nick Long

Empty Vase
Gwen Stefani, Madison Love, Henry Walter & Nick Long

Marigolds
Gwen Stefani, Niko Rubio, Jakob Hazell & Svante Halldin

Late to Bloom
Gwen Stefani, Madison Love, Henry Walter, Nick Long & Mark Landon

Swallow My Tears
Gwen Stefani, Madison Love, Henry Walter, Nick Long & Jacob Kasher Hindlin

Reminders
Gwen Stefani, Ilsey Juber & Stephen McGregor

All Your Fault
Diane Warren

Purple Irises
Gwen Stefani, Niko Rubio, Jakob Hazell & Svante Halldin

[memo90061]

I'm so happy it's not that far away! Can't wait <3

[GwennyGwenGwen]

oh wow so Reminders is one of the DiGenius tracks from back in 2021...so maybe we'll get at least one reggae-ish track.

[Danny789]

I got tickets to the Jimmy Kimmel mini concert, I can't wait to hear Somebody Else's live 

[xokuba]

So many tracks written / produced by Cirkut  This really isn't a country album

[xokuba]

She looks so beautiful

 

[CosTaSsSs]

She should stick away from country. This feels like an album she would NEVER make. I hope she goes back to her original sound. 

[xokuba]

Someone bully her into making this the official artwork. The poster photo is also beautiful!

Edited September 20 by xokuba

[Sky Engineer]

Ill hold out to see what other variant might pop up but the orchid is the nicest one, surely there'd be a Marigold yellow or purple irises purple?

[Heldenzeit]

51 minutes ago, xokuba said:

Someone bully her into making this the official artwork. The poster photo is also beautiful!

Every single photo we've seen is prettier than the uggo og cover. FURIOUS 

[Scandalous]

okay lots of Madison Love is promising, we should at least still get strong pop melodies!

[humbz]

years and years of random droplets and teasing and this is the concept she come up with? cmon now, guys...

[humbz]

years and years of random droplets and teasing and this is the concept she come up with? cmon now, guys...

[GwennyGwenGwen]

"Despite the cowboy hat on the cover, and the fact that the album was recorded in Nashville by an A-list producer (Scott Hendricks) with an all-star band of Music Row musicians, Stefani is insistent that she has not gone country. "It's not a country record," she says. Instead, Bouquet is packed with Seventies pop-rock radio gems, channeled through the prism of Nashville, but still authentically Gwen. "It's all the stuff I listened to in the station wagon on the way to church," Stefani says of the album. "Yacht rock, though it wasn't called yacht rock then. The music I listen to now, I wanted this album to reflect that."

[fulgadrum]

3 hours ago, humbz said:

years and years of random droplets and teasing and this is the concept she come up with? cmon now, guys...

I really wanna know what folks expect from a 55 year old Mom at this point?

I don't even mean this to be ageist, just that it's a whole other chapter of life for a legend who has a catalogue THICK of diverse hits spanning different genres and sounds.
Should she fall back on trying to make old hits happen? If she stayed on the LMRM or Slow Clap train trying to do that, she'd have flopped like Katy.

At least there's growth and artistic direction here, a thing most artists don't even bother trying this far in their career.

[Danny789]

32 years of making music and she still has a chokehold on my neck. 

[Giancor]

Im sorry but the lead sounds very country influenced to me 

[Dark Phoenix]

@GwennyGwenGwen do you have access or a link to the Rolling Stone interview? It's paywalled but she talks about the new album.

[GwennyGwenGwen]

12 minutes ago, Dark Phoenix said:

@GwennyGwenGwen do you have access or a link to the Rolling Stone interview? It's paywalled but she talks about the new album.

I don't, but here is almost all of it except the last line that got cut off from what someone sent to me!

Gwen Stefani has been busy, from appearing on The Voice to releasing standalone singles to a Las Vegas residency to performing with husband Blake Shelton to even reuniting with No Doubt. However, the one thing that's been missing these past eight years was a new album, but that changes on Nov. 15 when Stefani finally releases her fifth solo LP, Bouquet. Ahead of the album's arrival in less than two months time, Stefani has shared Bouquet's second single and opening track "Somebody Else's," a catchy slice of Seventies AM Gold contrasted by biting lyrics about past mistakes: "Everyday with you is rock bottom/Leavin' you saved me, my God/Look at me blossom/You're somebody else's problem." As Stefani tells Rolling Stone during an interview before a taping of The Voice, "Somebody Else's" was "never intended to be on this record." The subject matter — an almost eff-you aimed at an ex, similar to the breakup songs on her last (non-Christmas) LP, 2016's This Is What the Truth Feels Like — didn't fit with the rest of Bouquet, a collection of songs about flourishing love.

However, after work on Bouquet had begun, Stefani was drawn to an "idea of this song" by co-writer Madison Love, a veteran songwriter with credits on tracks by Lady Gaga, Camila Cabello, and Selena Gomez. ADVERTISEMENT 9/20/24, 7:43 AM Page 3 of 15 "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," Stefani says. "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." In addition to serving as Bouquet's second single, "Somebody Else's" also serves as the album's opening track, and a perfect segue from her last album — "The Truth record was in the middle of my hell," Stefani says of the 2016 postdivorce LP — to her new lease on life with Blake Shelton.

"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 this song rose [to become to the new single], because the rest of the record has nothing to do with that subject." EDITOR'S PICKS EDITOR'S PICKS The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time 25 Most Influential Creators of 2024 9/20/24, 7:43 AM Page 4 of 15 The new single isn't the only thing deceptive about Bouquet: Despite the cowboy hat on the cover, and the fact that the album was recorded in Nashville by an A-list producer (Scott Hendricks) with an all-star band of Music Row musicians, Stefani is insistent that she has not gone country. "It's not a country record," she says. Instead, Bouquet is packed with Seventies pop-rock radio gems, channeled through the prism of Nashville, but still authentically Gwen. "It's all the stuff I listened to in the station wagon on the way to church," Stefani says of the album. "Yacht rock, though it wasn't called yacht rock then. The music I listen to now, I wanted this album to reflect that." That desire to make a cohesive — and with just 10 songs, focused — album also inspired its title. "I wanted it to be one big statement, and that's why I feel Bouquet is a really perfect title," Stefani said. "Like each song was handpicked with meaning." The flower motif — long a frequent theme in Stefani's music, going back to the lyric "Born to blossom, bloom to perish" in her debut solo single, "What You Waiting For?" — extends into the music, with song titles like "Marigolds," "Empty Vase," "Late to Bloom," and "Purple Irises," the first track Stefani wrote for the album and a duet with Shelton inspired by their shared love of gardening.

 

"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 says. "Purple Irises" also liberated Stefani from a creative rut, one where she found herself attempting to "compete a little bit with my past and going backwards" — alluding to one-off singles like "Slow Clap" and "Let Me Reintroduce Myself" — which, along with "life being so crazy busy and the pandemic," was responsible for the long wait between albums. "It felt like I was repeating myself a lot," Stefani said of the false starts. "It just never landed, and it didn't even inspire me, so at a certain point I just wrote a song called 'Purple Irises,' and it felt like, 'I'm on now.' I felt like I'm in the zone, this is it." Gwen Stefani and Anderson .Paak Drop 2024 Olympics Anthem 'Hello World' Watch Post Malone, Blake Shelton Perform 'Pour Me a Drink' at Nashville Concert iHeartRadio Music Festival Taps Doja Cat, Paramore, Gwen Stefani for 2024 Lineup ADVERTISEMENT 9/20/24, 7:43 AM Page 6 of 15 Years ago, on a walk in Oklahoma, Stefani saw a bunch of purple irises growing on a nearby long-abandoned property. "We picked them and transplanted them, and then all these years later, you can see they've taken over our garden," she says. "They survived so much without any care. It's interesting to see how something so beautiful can survive through crazy weather and being pulled and transplanted. It symbolized so much what we were going through in our lives, and that's how that song was written." It's been a year of reflection for Stefani: Her debut solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with a new reissue, and — for the first time in nine years — Stefani reunited onstage with her No Doubt band mates for two acclaimed, triumphant gigs at Coachella. "It was magic, it was beyond what you could imagine it felt like. It felt like a big wave of love crashing on me," Stefani says of the reunion gigs. "It felt like riding a bike as well with the guys. We hadn't really spent that much time together in the last nine years, and it felt like the olden days, getting back together. There was so much love, and it marked how much impact that we've had."

It's an impact that has inspired a younger generation of fans like Olivia Rodrigo, who guested with No Doubt at Coachella. "It felt really validating and inspiring. It was incredible," Stefani adds.