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Bouquet is the fifth studio album by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani. The album serves as her first release since 2017's You Make It Feel Like Christmas and was preceded by two singles: "Somebody Else's", and "Swallow My Tears". It also includes the duet "Purple Irises" with husband Blake Shelton, which was released in February.
Stefani described Bouquet as being full of "seventies pop-rock radio gems" with Nashville influence. The album opens with "Somebody Else's", a heartland rock song combining elements of Stefani's pop and Shelton's country sounds. Its lyrics describe letting go of a former relationship ("I don't know what a woman like me was doing with a man like you"). The album closes with "Purple Irises", a duet with Shelton, serving as the only collaboration. The love song was originally intended as a solo song, but was lyrically revised to include Shelton. The couple sings about finding love with each other after past heartbreaks. Stefani's lyric "It's not 1999 / But this face is still mine" refers to what she believes was a highlight in her life, and how she has changed since then.