Did you think Gwen Stefani was the only one savvy enough to redirect her post-divorce anger into motivation for a new album? Nope. Her beau, Blake Shelton, is right there beside her, playing the same game, with an upcoming album and a new song of his own. Like Gwen’s “Used to Love You,†Blake’s new single takes a page of out of the jilted country songbook; it feigns heartache but is really all about revenge. “Came Here to Forget,†with its mid-tempo country-pop cadence, suggests that Blake is hurting. He is — he’s just the one doing the hurting.
This is a single about rebounding for the thrill of it with a woman he just met in a bar (let’s call that bar … The Voice). Because, hey, “Nobody’s ex is texting for a rewind,†so might as well as just “fall in love just enough to get us through what we’re getting through.†What could possibly go wrong? Too bad Blake forgot that no one does a whiskey-drenched kiss-off better than his ex, Miranda Lambert: Stand by for her and Gavin Rossdale’s sneak-attack duet, dropping whenever Gwen and Blake drop theirs.