Gwen Stefani slams poisonous ex in blistering new music ‘Any person Else’s’

Gwen Stefani ain’t no hollaback lady, however payback is one other story.

The pop icon launched Friday a blistering preview of her upcoming album Bouquet, with the album’s second single “Any person Else’s” arriving as a scathing takedown of an unnamed ex-lover.

All through the New Wave-soft rock hybrid tune, the 54-year-old slams her former flame as a “narcissistic, semi-psychotic” nuisance, and particulars how he “manipulated” her coronary heart — sufficient in order that the unidentified occasion is now “lifeless to me” within the aftermath.

“You gaslit my world, it was burning,” she sings. “Needed to go away earlier than it stopped turning. So comfortable I may cry, ‘trigger you are not mine.”

Earlier within the music, she questions her place in a previous relationship, singing, “I discovered the true factor, you do not examine and I do not care,” a transparent nod to her present marriage to fellow singer-songwriter Blake Shelton.

“You are someone else’s and it does not even break my coronary heart, you are someone else’s and I pray for them wherever they’re,” Stefani expresses within the refrain. “Take a look at me blossom, you are someone else’s downside.”

Although Stefani does not explicitly identify anybody within the monitor’s lyrics, followers will naturally join the music to her extremely publicized former relationships, significantly her No Doubt bandmate Tony Kanal or Gavin Rossdale, the latter of whom she married in 2002 and had three youngsters with, earlier than the couple divorced in 2015. That breakup additionally impressed parts of Stefani’s 2016 album This Is What the Reality Feels Like, which turned her first solo studio set to achieve No. 1 in the USA upon its launch after spawning singles “Used to Love You” and “Distress.”

Leisure Weekly has reached out to a consultant for Stefani for remark.

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In a current interview with Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes’ Amy & T.J. podcast, the Bush band chief opened up about his divorce from Stefani and its lasting impression on his household.

“I really feel dangerous for my youngsters, that is it,” Rossdale mentioned on the episode. “That might be essentially the most profound factor, of like, I want I may have simply discovered a solution to not have that of their lives.” Reflecting on his personal upbringing and the way it influenced his music, he added, “It wasn’t enjoyable for me to be from a damaged house. I feel in a approach it gave me a profession so I do not thoughts, as a result of I turned it round into form of an fascinating profession path, however it may be fairly debilitating for teenagers… The overriding factor is like, you do not wish to let your youngsters down.”

Bouquet is out Nov. 15, practically 20 years to the day after the discharge of her debut solo album Love. Angel. Music. Child‘s 2004 launch. Hearken to “Any person Else’s” above.