Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani have been together since 2015. The couple met as coaches on The Voice and went on to write music together in the early days of their relationship. Though they make different genres of music, they admire each other’s solo work. Shelton discovered that a song he often cited as a favorite of Stefani’s was actually a cover.
Blake Shelton said he loves a Gwen Stefani song that was a cover
In a discussion about Stefani’s music, Shelton listed the No Doubt song “It’s My Life” as among his favorites. The song was not originally the band’s, though. The English new wave band Talk Talk first released it in 1984. He had no idea when he first listened to the No Doubt version.
“I’m just trying to sound cool,” Shelton said on the Taste of Country Nights podcast (via American Songwriter). “I thought it was their song.”
No Doubt included the song on their greatest hits record. Stefani had been working on her debut solo album, and she hadn’t wanted to write new songs for No Doubt.
“Instead of trying to go in and spend time writing and writing and writing, ’cause we’re not doing that right now, we’re taking a ‘break,’ we thought it was about time we did a cover song,” she told MTV News. “We’ve done covers live but we’ve never done a cover and recorded it and put it out as a single.”
She said they tried to pick from hundreds of songs, which almost felt more difficult than trying to write something new. Ultimately, though, they were happy with the cover song.
“It turned out so good,” Stefani said. “I’m so excited about it. It’s just insane.”
Gwen Stefani shared her favorite Blake Shelton song
Stefani wasn’t aware of Shelton as an artist before she met him in person. Once she dove into his catalog, though, she realized why he was so successful. She shared one of her favorite songs by her husband.
“He’s done so much music,” Stefani said. “There’s a song called ‘Mine Would Be You.’ I love that. I was like, ‘God, that song’s so good.’ But there’s so many good ones.”
She said she particularly likes it when Shelton writes songs about her.
“He’s written some amazing songs,” she said. “He wrote a song about me, [and] it was really fun to have someone write a song ‘cause I’ve written so many songs about people. But then to have one written about you is pretty exciting.”
She wished he wrote more of his own songs
Stefani admitted it bothers her that Shelton doesn’t write many of his own songs anymore.
“I wish he would write with me, but he doesn’t really write anymore,” Stefani said on The First One podcast (via AOL). “We’ve actually written three songs together — we wrote a Christmas song together, and then we wrote two other songs.”
Stefani values songwriting and wishes her husband liked doing it as much as she does.
“But he just doesn’t like writing that much,” she said. “It makes me so mad.”
