Gwen Stefani Confirms She’s Scrapped An Entire Album, Started Working On New Songs In June!
So she indeed scrapped it. Gwen’s just confirmed it.
EW.com just posted a new interview with pop star Gwen Stefani where she confirms what has been long rumored – that the new album she recorded last year with the intention of being released as her third studio one has been entirely scrapped. I’m talking about the project that was going to feature songs like “Baby Don’t Lie” or “Spark The Fire”. Benny Blanco, and Pharrell were the two main producers of said scrapped LP and now they have to see how all of the time, energy and creativity they invested on Gwen goes to waste.
On the scrapping
“It didn’t feel right,” Stefani tells EW of scrapping that collection. “I didn’t feel fulfilled. That record with Benny was done that way because I had just given birth and had just started on The Voice and felt like I should do something in music, but what was I going to do? There wasn’t enough time. So I tried to make a record where I was just kind of involved — which is how a lot of people do it, but it didn’t work for me.”
There won’t be a new album by Gwen coming then? Relax. Gwen’s third solo album WILL be released. Although she doesn’t have a fixed release date to give fans yet, she’s told EW.com that he’s recorded more than enough new material to make up an album. Basically after she decided to scrap last year’s recorded album, Gwen started working on new songs this past June. One of those new songs is “Used To Love You”, which Gwen debuted over the weekend in NYC.
On “Used To Love You”, said to be inspired by her divorce from Gavin Rossdale
“I needed to go through what I needed to go through to write the record that I needed to write. There was a lot of prayer and meditating in the sense of trying to be open and grateful with this record,” Stefani tells EW of her process. “These songs are really natural — they’re from not worrying about what happened or what’s going to happen but about living in the moment, from trying to be present and trying to feel.”
On the progress of the new album
While the singer doesn’t offer an expected release date for the music, she began writing in June and already has more than an album’s worth of material. “It happened really fast,” she admits. “[But] I just feel so lucky to make music. It’s a gift to channel true emotions and then capture them. When I finish a song I listen to it so many times — until I can’t listen again — because you learn things about yourself that you didn’t even know you were saying, or needed to say.”