Gwen Stefani Felt Prettiest When Blake Shelton Started Dating Her | The Drew Barrymore Show

You guys you guys stop I have a gift. It's not really a gift. It's a I'm forcing this on you Oh, I think by the way because um Back in the day in the 90s. You were the queen like all of us wanted to be you and you Visit day actually in the 90s. Everybody wanted to be And so I was like looking at like looking at pictures to get inspired for like just style and like Thinking about you with all your little daisies in your hair and all that Call my stylist cuz we're like twins. I know by the way I'm taking off the vest actually because I think this will color coordinate better What do you think in a good way you do that's like super bold To some but seems so normal and natural to you Bold. Yeah. Um, I don't know. I sometimes I feel like when I get on stage maybe I was Had when I'm so glad you said that cuz I was like you can get up in front of everybody and do something That's so rare. It's just fun. It feels like this like huge Exchange like a wave of love like, you know I'm there to love them and they're there to love me and we just we know it and we're And we have this like common. That's why I'm so excited to be here because we have this common thing Which is the song or the story because most of the songs are like the story of my life So having I have a new record, so I'm so excited you have In anticipation, it's called bouquet looking at how you're dressed Which by the way is very much And the whole album, you know feels like the extremely invitational, you know, the thing is is that like I I wanted to write a record so bad and I it was like probably the end of 2020 and I was like There's this inner voice. It's like make a record But I felt guilty like to go into the studio and take the time to do that I have a life with the kids and everything is it's a lot and I also like have a lot of records and I've done It like I've done it a bunch of times but I just couldn't like put it away like I just kept going in the studio and I kept going to like Cul-de-sacs of like oh, I'm gonna do ska again Like oh, I'm gonna do right like I kept trying to chase my old self and like try to repeat or compete with myself and It just it felt like going in and getting my old prom dress and like putting it on going. I love it It's not working anymore. You know what I mean? I gotta find where I'm at now like who am I now and at the time of I started writing was right when I got Engaged and that was just like them. It was right 2020. You could imagine pandemic engagement Yeah, and then you know, then I got married the following year. So this whole record took four years To make ten songs. But anyways, that's good I wrote a lot of songs and I just really wanted to like Handpick the best bouquet of songs to like almost be like To explain what was going on in a great way and the first single is like a song called somebody else's which is kind of about the past and Realize that you really do on this album You needed to hear like how far the love grew and like after Happening to like scrape myself off the ground and like start over again Like I'm still there miracle like it's just such a miracle to be now nine years in and you know, yeah Nine years with this guy. He's Going I One of the last things we talked about which is the thing that really sat with me Because it just it gave me so much. Hope is that you would say You just had made this Decision in a beautifully resigned poetic way of this is gonna be my life I'm gonna be with my boys and I'm gonna make my coffee every day. Oh, yeah I remember that and you know I don't know if love will come back into my life probably not even and then the doors opened and somebody walked through them and changed all that and To hear that from you because I think you're Gwen Stefani we all love you so much and then it's like I Applied it to my own little tiny existence and I literally I don't know who else did it But it it shifted something for me. Really? Yes, it really did It made me go from this is what's happening to me to these are my choices And now I also know and believe that My inner dialogue, which is this is my life I wake up with my girls and this is our routine and that's just gonna be what it is It was the first person you are the first person to make me think and one day that might not be true Because the way you talked about it was so uplifting but also like we don't know the future We don't know the future and even like right now having new music which is it's one of those things where it's like I think about myself and I think about things like just my whole journey and and like It wasn't until like I wrote a song that I was like, oh I have wings Like I didn't I didn't even know I could do that. You know, I'm saying like all of a sudden I'm flying I'm writing all these songs and I was writing the songs about like really bad stuff. That was happening to me You know, I mean like everything was wrong And I wrote these songs before anyone could ever like I didn't know I could do it And then I didn't know anyone would hear it because you know The band was together almost it was nine years before just a girl came on the radio So it wasn't like it was that long from 17 till 25 Nine is a significant number. Yeah today it is Yeah, and I I don't know so for me like having a new version of that where it expresses like not just for to share It but for myself like just listen back to it because you write the songs. It's really crazy and Sometimes you have an idea of what you want to say like for example there's a song on the record called pretty and I was thinking about it and I was I was thinking about like I was looking back in my life at all of like the photos like Physical and inner beauty of myself and and I was like thinking about eighth grade I'm like staring in the mirror in the gym, right like by myself going Cute like I can't tell like, you know when you're trying to figure out if you are not And I was like and then I look back at all the photos and I'm like, where did I where am I the prettiest like When do I like myself the most and it was right when Blake started loving me? And I wanted to write a song about that because when you actually feel love for the first time you can you they reflect you You can see yourself in them and like I wanted to write a song about that So there's this record is kind of just like a diary of those kinds of little thoughts that I had through feeling love Right, we have to cut to a quick commercial break I do not want to but when we come back Will you tell me all about Snoop and the boys because I mean I just okay. We'll be right back