Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton to record a duet: cheesy or sweet?

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In the latest “Gwake” news, the musical power couple (Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani) are expected to release a duet together on Blake’s upcoming album. If you are a “Gwake” fan, you may already know that the duo collaborated (before they were “official”) on writing (NOT recording) a mid-tempo ballad “telling a lover to leave the relationship if that is what they truly want.” But is there an audience for California ska/rock AND new country?

The unlikely couple have been a perfect match in the studio. As an insider told People, “Both of them share a passion for music and have lately been very busy in the studio. They seem very supportive of each other’s careers.” So, what are we thinking here? I am not a country fan, but Blake is an artist I’ll listen to on the radio. Gwen gets goodwill credits because my life is accompanied by a constant loop of “Make Me Like You.” This might actually be decent.

Meanwhile there’s news that Blake’s new single is about Gwen, because of course it is. We already know that “Make Me Like You” is about Blake, Gwen has admitted it, and now Blake has “Came Here To Forget” out. It’s about two people getting over a breakup by getting drunk and falling in love. As outlets are reporting, it’s obviously autobiographical and the theme of the song is “not subtle.” Blake has said that “I don’t think I’ve ever had a song that’s such a direct look into my life.” What about that song about burning watermelon candles and making margaritas for Miranda Lambert?

“Came Here to Forget” debuted at number 1 on the iTunes country charts and Gwen seems pretty proud of that. She posted this screenshot to Instagram.

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  1. Bichon says:

    Their version of By the Sea.

  2. Kate says:

    Yeah I don’t even know anymore. I thought it was a rebound, for Blake, at least. The two of them pairing up for a duet makes zero sense, musically.

  3. Jayna says:

    This dooms them to failure. If she was country, it would be different. We saw what happened to Seal when he put his wife on an album.

  4. NewWester says:

    Recording a song together sounds nice ,but avoid doing any reality show together. A reality show seems to be the touch of death for many celebrity relationships

  5. GoodNamesAllTaken says:

    Why is she dessed for the Ice Capades?

    • Mrs. Wellen Melon says:

      Exactly.

      I now want to see GS skate a routine to “Came Here to Forget”.

  6. paolanqar says:

    if this story ends it will be epic.

    • Naya says:

      Yes indeed. There’ll be leaked sources, teary tell all interviews, the works. But it atleast this smug display will be over.

  7. Sam says:

    They’re so over the top together that I can’t imagine what they’ll be like when they break up. At this rate they’re going to be worse than Ben Affleck and Jen Garner.

    • Ankhel says:

      I’m looking forward to their break up already. I sorta have this dream wish – that Blake will cheat with Taylor Swift. Imagine the songwriting and the girl fights!

  8. Alex says:

    This is too much now.

    • Naya says:

      NOW, its too much? I went over my limit of these two months ago.

      • jinni says:

        Yup. I was done with them once they started to Facetime in front of the paps and actually turn their cameras toward the paps to make sure they got a clear picture of the screen. Honestly, imho, Gwen is just looking more and more sad and desperate the longer she’s in this relationship. I never and still don’t have any real feelings for Blake, but Gwen was my fave coming up and watching this is such a downer.

      • Alex says:

        I’ve been annoyed for a while but i’ve been pushed over the edge

      • Andrea says:

        Honestly, you’d think she would come out better from the divorce from Gavin, but she’s come out looking worse—desperate and clingy. I want it over like a month ago already!

  9. Neelyo says:

    These two are going to be so embarrassed when this thing flames out.

  10. Mimz says:

    I just came here to say
    CHEESY
    because it goes with the rest of their excessive PDA and PR game. Barf, barf, and barf again.
    Let’s hope it’s a decent tune.

  11. Lucy2 says:

    A reality show and then on air wedding seem imminent. I can’t recall seeing two people more desperate to publicly prove how in love and happy they are. Just be!

  12. Dana says:

    I wish she’d stop pushing the Banging Blake Tour so hard. I don’t think that Gavin is paying as much attention as she thinks he is. She’s trying too hard to seem “moved on” and it makes her look like the opposite, super clingy and that she can’t let go.

  13. Nancy says:

    He should sing I’m Just a Gigolo and she should take on Carrie Underwood’s Until He Cheats. A match made in He…….y’all decide if it’s Heaven or Hell!

  14. Size Does Matter says:

    Neither cheesy nor sweet – inevitable.

  15. SleepyJane says:

    What a spectacular sh*t show

  16. Skins says:

    Look at us, we are dating, look at us holding hands. Look at us recording a duet together. Damn it, LOOK AT US!

    • lurkingweirdo says:

      I have come to loathe her. As the former spouse of a serial cheater, I can tell you that this time in the divorce process is devastating to the kids (just in case any of y’all didn’t already know that). 🙂

      I wish this insecure woman would give her kids – who have to be sad and confused right now – a fraction of the time she seems to spend on this fauxmance and showing the world how she’s #WINNING at her divorce. I know she’s hurting and I sympathize, but this is the wrong way to move forward.

      • Andrea says:

        Gavin seems to be spending more time with the kids than she is!

      • Jayna says:

        Just wow. He has the kids fifty percent of the time. What do you want her to do with that time?

        And let me just say, this man, the man she loved, screwed the nanny for three years in their own home, and she is one of the few that ended up the winner, not the husband dancing off into the sunset with the new babe and the publicly humiliated wife standing in the ashes of her life.

        So let’s shame her as a bad mother because she’s not doing the dimple parade ala Jennifer Aniston and sitting home the other fifty percent of the time he has her children that she lost fifty percent of the time because he destroyed the marriage.

      • Jayna says:

        I meant Jennifer Garner. LOL

  17. trishy says:

    I’m sure they’ll write some schmaltzy original song, but I would be sofa kingmaker excited if they sang “Islands in the Stream” together. Gwen and I are the same age; as an 80’s child I guarantee she can sing every word of that song from memory. It would be glorious.

    • amilu says:

      He can probably sing every 80s song, too!

      ““He’s real big into the ’80s songs, and I’m not.” That’s really the only complaint Miranda Lambert has about the way her husband Blake Shelton is running things on his team so far on The Voice….”

  18. lile says:

    Not just cheesy, but Rotten Cheese!

  19. annaloo. says:

    This question of whether they are cheesy is beyond asking at this point. They are a Swiss fondue with a NYC bagel size smear plus disco fries level cheese fer sure. BUT I say, esp since that nanny is pregnant, “Go Gwen, get your happiness.” …there are worse things out there for people to put out, like a Kardashian selfie.

  20. Barbara says:

    They are starting to annoy me. Gwen especially acting like a teen. But now they are messing with my girl Christina and I don’t like it.Christina got the job over Gwen and the lovebirds are trying to make it uncomfortable for her to stay.

    • nikko says:

      I don’t understand why they want to be together 24/7. I wouldn’t want him up under me like that. You have your work, I have mine. Is she singing w/ her group or is it just her and Blake. Doesn’t she have 3 boys? I haven’t seen them w/ Blake this whole time.

  21. april says:

    I hate close-up selfies. No one looks like themselves in them, nor do they ever look good. All you see is a big nose.

    • nikko says:

      Your so right. I took a selfie recently and all i see is my nose. Didn’t know it was that dang big.

  22. JRenee says:

    Beyond cheesy. ..
    She should tone her hair down a shade or two as well. ..

  23. Marianne says:

    Idk…seems kind of cheesy to me. Not only because they havent even been dating THAT long, but when the relationships ends (and it most likely will) then you’ll always be stuck with that song.