Blake Shelton’s duet with Gwen Stefani will be featured on his upcoming album, If I’m Honest, which will be released on May 20.
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It appears that Blake wasn’t aware the song was being released this morning as he tweeted “It’s out?!!!”
While not a radio single, the uptempo country love song is available at iTunes.
Blake Shelton is feeling anxious about performing his new duet with Gwen Stefani because the lyrics are highly personal.
Shelton’s credentials as a country music superstar are impressive and were well-established long before “The Voice” came into his life.
While plenty of songs on Stefani’s record were undoubtedly inspired by Shelton, he didn’t show up anywhere in the tracklist.
The musical duo – who met in 2014 as coaches on the set of NBC’s The Voice – will perform the track on tonight’s Monday, May 9, episode of the singing reality competition series. During an interview with Refinery 29, the “Make Me Like You” singer revealed that Blake Shelton “saved” her from the feeling of hopelessness that she was struggling with after her marriage fell apart.
Shelton admitted that he “learned a lot” from the 46-year-old No Doubt frontwoman when it comes to creating songs “because she’s so brutally honest in her writing”.
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“I started this song and wrote about half of it and sent it to her and she wrote the other half of it. It was just kind of something for she and I to help us feel better about what we were going through”, he recalled, referring to both of their divorces. “You know I’m broken I don’t trust anyone / Last thing I needed was to fall in love”.
