Gwen Stefani Talks New Song ‘Somebody Else’s,’ Gardening, and the Journey to Her ‘Bouquet’

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. “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 o.