The track appears on the singer’s solo studio album Bouquet, which arrived Friday
Gwen Stefani buries memories from her past and finds a garden blooming in their place in the music video for “Somebody Else’s.” The single appears on her latest solo studio album Bouquet, which was released on Friday.
Directed by Andrew Donoho, the bright video captures Stefani in the midst of some much needed spring cleaning. She starts by tossing an ex’s closet full of clothes out of a top-floor window, then carries a memory box out to a field and buries it there. A massive cluster of flowers bursts from the ground after one of her teardrops hits the box. “Everyday with you is rock bottom/Leavin’ you saved me, my God,” Stefani sings. “Look at me blossom/You’re somebody else’s problem.”
Bouquet marks Stefani’s fifth solo album and her first since 2016’s This Is What the Truth Feels Like. She didn’t initially intend to include “Somebody Else’s” on the album, having felt as though it was a thematic outlier on a record primarily about the bright side of love. “What I kind of realized was, after writing the rest of the songs, it felt you needed to see a little bit of the dark to see the light and see where I’d just come from originally,” Stefani told Rolling Stone in September.
In a statement, Stefani described Bouquet as “a blend of everything that I’ve ever been and who I’ve evolved into. Each one of the songs was picked like individual flowers to create a bouquet of the past, the present and the seed of hope for the future.”
A Rolling Stone review of the record describes it as being “an aggressively pleasant collection that continues the ex-SoCal punk’s rebranding as a down-home country gal.” And while Bouquet doesn’t go for a full-blown country approach, it does find a balance between Stefani’s past and present.
