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Blake Shelton‘s new album is called If I’m Honest—and it sure is living up to that name.
The music superstar opened about his new music last night during his iHeartRadio album release show at The Honda Stage in L.A.
While he didn’t mention his ex Miranda Lambert by name, he talked about the meaning behind the tune “I Bet You Still Think About Me.”
“It’s basically what it sounds like,” Shelton said. “At some point whether you go through a divorce or a breakup or whatever, once you get past the anger and the frustration of it all, you kind of go into the sad part of it where it’s just like, ‘Gosh, how come that didn’t work out?'” And that’s what this song is about. Even though stuff didn’t work out, I bet you miss me a little bit. It’s a sad song.”
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Shelton’s new love, Gwen Stefani, was at the show and even jumped on stage to duet on “Go Ahead and Break My Heart” as they did just a couple of hours before during The Voice.
“Actually I only started this song—you probably don’t realize this—I only started this song to try to impress you,” he said to Stefani. “I sent her like half the song and she wrote the other half.”
Stefani cooed, “It worked. It worked.”
After performing the tune, Shelton gave Stefani a kiss and she returned to her spot at the side of the stage to watch the rest of the show.
If I’m Honest drops on May 20. The iHeartRadio show will stream on Wednesday, May 18 at 8 p.m.
Shelton also revealed how he decided on the title of the album with Warner Music Nashville executive Shane Tarleton.
“I was like, ‘Man, I want it to be, I need a title that represents a timeline, like 12 or 13 months of my life, like if somebody took those months and wrote a story about it, that’s what I want the album to represent and we kept saying like, 12 Months and Holy Crap,” Shelton said. “Finally he was like, ‘What do you mean by that?’ I was just like, ‘I just want to tell the truth about what happened.'”
He also joked about being so open about his private life on the album, “I figured since everybody else is cashing in on my life, I might as well as get some of that, too.”
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