Gwen Stefani Shared How Blake Shelton Tried to ‘Impress’ Her When They Met
Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani bonded on the set of The Voice, while they were going through divorces. Stefani said the depth of their connection alarmed her, as she was trying to navigate heartbreak. She told Shelton that they needed to stay away from each other, but he won her back over. Here’s how he tried to impress Stefani.
Gwen Stefani said Blake Shelton worked hard to impress her
When Stefani and Shelton started growing closer, she decided she needed to put a stop to their budding relationship. She felt it was too soon after her divorce to jump into another romance.
“We had just met, and it was chaos. Both of our lives were in complete turmoil, all over the ground. Nothing could save us at that point,” Stefani told People. “There was a point where I was like, ‘I can’t even talk to you. This is insane. I already have enough problems. This is not happening anymore. We’re not going to text or nothing.'”
Shelton later reached out to Stefani about writing the song “Go Ahead and Break My Heart” with him. She said this helped win her back over because she loves writing music.
“I think he really wanted to impress me, because he doesn’t really write songs as much as he used to. And I love writing songs,” she said. “That’s everything to me. If I want to feel like I have any kind of purpose or any kind of value or anything, it’s about writing a song. That’s where I get my fulfillment.”
Gwen Stefani said she wished Blake Shelton wrote more
Stefani said she wished Shelton wrote more songs than he does.
“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.”
She said he doesn’t particularly like writing, which frustrates her.
“But he just doesn’t like writing that much,” she said. “It makes me so mad.”
She spoke about her writing process
When Shelton and Stefani wrote the song “Go Ahead and Break My Heart” together, she texted him her verse.
“He sent it to me, and it was a half-written song,” she recalled. “He was like, ‘Help me finish this.’ So I wrote him the verse back — the second verse on the song — and it’s just over text. That was our first song that we ever wrote together. We were never even in the same room, but we were writing a song to each other.”
Typically, Stefani said she pulls from her own life to make music.
“I’m never going to write anything that’s not just completely reflective of what’s going on in my life,” she told People. “Before I wrote my first song, I was this dyslexic girl who didn’t know how I fit in. Then I was like, ‘Oh, this is my magic power.’ I’m so honored that I got the gift to be able to write music, and I take it super seriously.”
