Gwen Stefani insists her new album is “not a country record”
nme.comGwen Stefani has said her upcoming fifth album is “not a country record”, despite her country-inflected new single ‘Somebody Else’s’, and the cowboy hat in the LP’s cover art.Last week, the No Doubt singer took to Instagram to announce she’d soon be releasing her first record in seven years. “My fifth studio album, ‘Bouquet’, will be in full bloom on November 15th,” she wrote.She’s since shared the album’s first single ‘Somebody Else’s’, which has a distinct country theme – seeming to suggest the upcoming songs would see Stefani fully immerse herself in the genre.However, she’s since insisted that ‘Bouquet’ is “not a country record”, in a new interview with Rolling Stone.“It’s all the stuff I listened to in the station wagon on the way to church,” she told the magazine. “Yacht rock, though it wasn’t called yacht rock then.
The music I listen to now, I wanted this album to reflect that.”Stefani is married to country singer Blake Shelton, who is set to feature on the album’s closer ‘Purple Iris’.
You can pre-order / pre-save ‘Bouquet’ here.Though ‘Bouquet’ won’t see Stefani pivot to country, there has been a wider trend of pop stars adopting the genre this year.
Beyoncé released the colossal, country-inspired ‘Cowboy Carter‘ earlier this year, and Post Malone immersed himself in the genre for his album ‘F-1 Trillion’.Elsewhere, Lana Del Rey shared that her upcoming album ‘Lasso’ was taking her in a country direction.
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