<p id=”par-1_53″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/blake-shelton/?swcfpc=1″>Blake Shelton</a> has released a number of hit <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/music/”>songs</a>, but he admitted that he doesn’t write many of these. While he said he’s written hundreds of songs in his lifetime, he only feels proud enough of a tiny portion of these. He shared why he prefers to use professional songwriters on his albums.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-blake-shelton-said-he-hasn-t-written-many-songs-he-feels-proud-of”>Blake Shelton said he hasn’t written many songs he feels proud of</h2>
<p id=”par-2_30″>Shelton has written a large catalog of music, but he’s only released a small portion of these songs. He said he doesn’t feel proud enough of most of his songs.</p>
<p id=”par-3_36″>“If I’ve written 200 songs in my life or 300 songs, I probably have 15 of those that I’m proud of,” he told <em><a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blake-shelton-60-minutes-love-of-country/” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>60 Minutes</a> </em>in 2014. “That I truly go, man, I did something there.”</p>
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<p id=”par-4_15″>He believes a professional songwriter can almost always do a better job than he can. </p>
<p id=”par-5_35″>“And I can’t imagine me convincing myself that I’m a better songwriter than some of these people in Nashville,” he said. “I just want the song to be the best song it can possibly be.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-he-bonded-with-gwen-stefani-through-writing”>He bonded with Gwen Stefani through writing</h2>
<p id=”par-6_31″>After Shelton’s divorce from Miranda Lambert, he grew close to fellow <em>Voice</em> judge Gwen Stefani. She was also <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/gwen-stefani-said-blake-sheltons-divorce-announcement-felt-gift.html/”>going through a divorce</a>, and worried about how <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/gwen-stefani-told-blake-shelton-stop-texting-started-dating-happening.html/”>quickly their relationship was developing</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-7_64″>“We had just met, and it was chaos. Both of our lives were in complete turmoil, all over the ground. Nothing could save us at that point,” Stefani told <a target=”_blank” href=”https://people.com/gwen-stefani-recalls-chaos-early-days-dating-blake-shelton-not-happening-8751595″ rel=”noreferrer noopener”>People</a>. “There was a point where I was like, ‘I can’t even talk to you. This is insane. I already have enough problems. This is not happening anymore. We’re not going to text or nothing.’”</p>
<p id=”par-8_12″>Still, Shelton asked Stefani if she would write a song with him.</p>
<p id=”par-9_61″>“I think he really wanted to impress me, because he doesn’t really write songs as much as he used to. And I love writing songs,” she said. “That’s everything to me. If I want to feel like I have any kind of purpose or any kind of value or anything, it’s about writing a song. That’s where I get my fulfillment.”</p>
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<p id=”par-10_10″>The resulting song was “Go Ahead and Break My Heart.” </p>
<p id=”par-11_67″>“He sent it to me, and it was a half-written song,” she recalled. “He was like, ‘Help me finish this.’ So I wrote him the verse back — the second verse on the song — and it’s just over text. That was our first song that we ever wrote together. We were never even in the same room, but we were writing a song to each other.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-gwen-stefani-wishes-blake-shelton-would-write-more-songs”>Gwen Stefani wishes Blake Shelton would write more songs</h2>
<p id=”par-12_14″>Stefani wishes Shelton would <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/blake-shelton-said-gwen-stefani-not-think-writes-enough-pretty-hard-me.html/”>write more music</a>, whether with her or on his own. </p>
<p id=”par-13_42″>“I wish he would write with me, but he doesn’t really write anymore,” Stefani said on <em>The First One</em> podcast (via <a href=”https://www.aol.com/entertainment/gwen-stefani-shares-why-blake-190444284.html#!” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>AOL</a>). “We’ve actually written three songs together — we wrote <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/blake-shelton-christmas-gwen-stefani-similar-past-holidays-miranda-lambert.html/”>a Christmas song</a> together, and then we wrote two other songs.”</p>
<p id=”par-14_20″>She said writing is one of her greatest passions, and finds it disappointing that he isn’t as interested in it.</p>
<p id=”par-15_15″>“But he just doesn’t like writing that much,” she said. “It makes me so mad.”</p>