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"Used to Love You" is a song by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani for her upcoming third solo studio album. It was written by Stefani, Justin Tranter, Julia Michaels, Teal Douville and J.R. Rotem, with production being handled solely by Rotem. After scrapping the album and its two singles in favor to start over, Interscope Records released it as the album's first official single on October 20, 2015 to digital download and serviced to mainstream radio on October 27, 2015. "Used to Love You" is an emotional midtempo synthpop ballad, with its instrumentation consisting in a piano, restrained synths and drum taps. Lyrically, the song talks about a painful break-up, with the protagonist questioning why she felt in love with her ex in the first place. The song was inspired by the end of Stefani's 13-year marriage with Gavin Rossdale, being written in the wake of the couple's divorce, as confirmed by Stefani herself. Critically acclaimed, "Used to Love You" received praise for its lyrical content, as well as for Stefani's emotional delivery, with most critics considering it a heartbreaking song and an improvement over her 2014 releases, which she has described as "rushed". Stefani first premiered the song during a concert on October 17, 2015, while its music video was released three days later. It is a single shot of Stefani in a white tank top on a black background, emoting, and occasionally mouthing some of the words of the song. The song received its first televised performance on ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' on October 26, 2015. ==Background and release== In October 2014, Stefani released her first solo single in six years, "Baby Don't Lie", and following its moderate impact and reception, a new single, "Spark the Fire", was released in December of the same year, but it underperformed on the charts,〔 prompting the album to be postponed for a 2015 release. After months with no updates on the album, Stefani revealed in an interview for ''Entertainment Weekly'' that she scrapped the entire album in favor to start over, since she did not feel fulfilled and totally involved with the previous project.〔 Therefore, Stefani started writing new material in June 2015, and following her divorce from Gavin Rossdale a month later, she felt very inspired, claiming: "I needed to go through what I needed to go through to write the record that I needed to write. () These songs are really natural — they’re from not worrying about what happened or what’s going to happen but about living in the moment, from trying to be present and trying to feel." On October 17, 2015, Stefani performed at a MasterCard Priceless Surprises concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. Prior performing the show's encore, she wrote on her official Twitter account, "Ready for the encore? Hold tight—new single in 5-4-3-2-1!". Before performing the song, entitled "Used to Love You", she said, "I just want to share a song that I wrote recently. This song is really special."〔 On October 19, 2015, Stefani revealed the single's cover art, featuring a close-up picture of herself.〔 A day later, October 20, 2015, the song was released to digital download on iTunes and other online platforms,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amazon.com/Used-To-Love-You/dp/B016VAWAUA )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/gwen-stefani/album/used-to-love-you )〕 while on October 27, 2015, Interscope Records serviced the song to mainstream radio as the official lead-single from the album.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=16691 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Used to Love You」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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