Gwen Stefani wrote Make Me Like You in like 10, 15 minutes can you tell?
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Another day, another story about Gwen Stefani, right? The singer appeared on Good Morning America this week to discuss her latest album, “This is What the Truth Feels Like,” with ABC’s Lara Spencer. If you wonder whether Gwen might be as tired of talking about writing this album packed with personal songs as you are hearing about it, the answer is probably not. Here are some highlights:
On writing “Make Me Like You”: “It just came out. It was like, I had been feeling that way. Like, it’s just exactly what I felt that day … ‘I miss you right now. Here it is.’ You know what I mean? And everybody in the room was just kind of like, ‘Whoa, this is happening right now.’ It was written fast. Like, 10, 15 minutes.”
On the silver lining from her divorce: “I have gone through a lot. But I feel like, that is, you have to be grateful for that. Because if I didn’t do that, then I wouldn’t have this. And so you have to be grateful for all of it.”
On turning pain into creativity: “I think that I just …. I can’t even find the words. I was embarrassed, and I felt like, ‘Wow, I can’t go down. This is not who I am. I’m not going to fail.’ I had to make something good out of it, so I tried to write because that was my gift and I was like, I’m going to make this into music.”
On getting into the studio with “hot button stories” surrounding her: “I didn’t care about anything, I was just trying to get up in the morning. I just want to get this out. I just want to write a record. I don’t care about anything except for getting this out, and healing, and being honest, and real, and truthful. I don’t care what style it is and I don’t care about being on the radio or charts or…why would that matter to me at this point? Like, nothing matters. I’m just trying not to die right now.”
On hoping “Truth” resonates with her fans: “It feels like I’m supposed to be doing this right now and sharing my story … And I really hope that this record brings pleasure and, I don’t know, documents people’s, you know, lives in this moment. And I just — I’m so happy to share it.”
During the GMA segment, Gwen performed “Make Me Like You.” I can’t embed the video here, but her performance today was much better than Saturday night’s on SNL (which is embedded below), where something was just off. On SNL it almost sounded like she was on the wrong speed. I still have to give her props for that “Space Pants” sketch though. I finally watched the whole episode today and that was definitely the best part of the episode – thanks mostly to Peter Dinklage, butshe was an inspired addition.
“Make Me Like You” does kind of document my current romantic situation and I do love Gwen, but she’s getting to be too much. I said it yesterday, and I mean it even more today. Doesn’t she need a break?
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