Gwen Stefani says goodbye to an ex on new country rock single ‘Somebody Else’s’

nme.com:

Gwen Stefani has shared ‘Somebody Else’s’, the new country-imbued single from her upcoming fifth album ‘Bouquet’. Check it out below.Yesterday (September 19), The No Doubt singer took to Instagram to announce she’d soon be releasing her first album in seven years. “My fifth studio album, ‘Bouquet’, will be in full bloom on November 15th,” she wrote.Now, she’s shared the record’s first single, and it sees her delve into country for the first time. ‘Somebody Else’s’ is an optimistic breakup song, as Stefani sings “You’re somebody else’s and it doesn’t even break my heart,” over a distinctively western beat.Stefani’s pivot to country comes as part of 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.

Speaking to NME earlier this year, she joked about pop’s country boom: “When I gave Jack Antonoff his award for Best Producer Of The Year [at the 2024 Grammys], I said, ‘Welcome Nashville to Hollywood and Hollywood, welcome to Nashville because the music business has gone, gone country.

And it went silent; 5000 people, dead silent. Then the next week, we had three major artists announce big country albums.”Stefani’s pivot to country may be inspired by her marriage to country singer Blake Shelton, who is set to feature on the album’s closer ‘Purple Iris’.