Within the years they’ve been collectively, Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton have been shut musical collaborators in addition to romantic companions. It’s no shock then to listen to Stefani inform Nylon in a brand new interview that the couple has “fantasized” about making an album collectively sooner or later.
“I really feel like Blake and I are already a venture collectively,” Stefani stated. “I’m at all times going to wish to write music with Blake Shelton.”
Stefani talked about the attainable LP whereas discussing the couple’s newest duet, “Purple Irises,” which got here out in February. The track itself was partly impressed by the purple irises Stefani and Shelton discovered rising on the latter’s Oklahoma ranch in the course of the pandemic; the couple set about transplanting and cultivating the flowers, and so they grew to become a reminder for Stefani to cease “overthinking.”
“The reality is I’m in love with my finest pal, and all this shit I’m pondering of in my mind, that’s all it’s,” she stated.
As Stefani labored on the track, she stated Shelton stored not-so-subtly suggesting he’d prefer to sing on it, and finally, she agreed to show it right into a duet. “Once you’re in love and have actually aligned values, no one can get to us,” Stefani stated. “You possibly can say no matter you wish to say about our relationship — I imply, every week in the past we had been getting divorced once more or one thing. It’s simply lies. The reality is the reality, and we all know what that’s. And in order that [negativity] would by no means penetrate simply by me being weak and sharing a track that I didn’t write for anyone else however myself and Blake.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Stefani spoke about No Doubt’s upcoming Coachella reunion, which is able to mark the band’s first live performance collectively in practically 10 years. Whereas Stefani admitted the band is just not in fixed contact, the reunion got here collectively extraordinarily shortly after the Coachella supply got here in: “It’s been a very long time coming,” she stated. “It’s been one thing that we had been going to do.”
Stefani stated she anticipated taking part in the gig to be like “using a motorbike once more,” including: “We’re simply so in sync after we’re onstage… We’re going to be laughing, and we’re going to have a look at one another and go, ‘Oh my gosh — there you’re.’”
As for post-Coachella plans, Stefani stated she was “open to something” however didn’t make any guarantees. “Effectively, I don’t have a crystal ball,” she stated. “Most issues have stunned me in life. One of many issues I’ve discovered is to be current within the second and attempt to take in what’s occurring round me as an alternative of wanting forward.”
