page_title: Rare (song)
section_title: Composition and lyrics
hierarchical_section_title: Rare (song) / Composition and lyrics
caption_attribution_description: Miranda Lambert performing in Dallas, TX
context_page_description: "Rare" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani from her third studio album, This Is What the Truth Feels Like. It was released on March 18, 2016, along with the rest of This Is What the Truth Feels Like by Interscope Records. The track was written by Stefani, Justin Tranter, Julia Michaels, and Greg Kurstin; Kurstin was the track's sole producer.
  "Rare" is an electropop and folk pop influenced song and serves as the album's closing track. Lyrically, the song discusses finding love when all hope was lost. Several media outlets speculated that "Rare" was written about Stefani's boyfriend Blake Shelton and his ex-wife Miranda Lambert. "Rare" received generally favorable reviews from music critics, some of which called the song "glamorous" and predicted that it would become a future "summer hit".
context_section_description: Musically, "Rare" is an electropop and folk pop influenced ballad, that has "an acoustic guitar and galloping beat". Lyrically, "Rare" discusses finding love in the "perfect" man, presumably Shelton. Patrick Ryan of USA Today called "Rare" an "outright declaration of love for Shelton", summarizing the song as "a rare moment of vulnerability for the singer who, for the most part, keeps her emotions close to her vest." Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly declared the song a "sweetly smitten confessional". Mikael Wood of the Los Angeles Times described the lyrics as "her shock to have found someone this late in the game", while Sarah Rodman of The Boston Globe felt that the lyrics observe "that 'only a stupid girl' would let the 'perfect' man go."
  After the release of This Is What the Truth Feels Like, several news outlets speculated that the lyrics of "Rare" may be written about Shelton's ex-wife, Miranda Lambert. An article from Fox News reported that "the lyrics appear to be a slam at Lambert for letting Shelton go", particularly "You're rare / And only a stupid girl would let it go". Andrew Leung of Music Mic, who described the song as "a mid-tempo love ballad", also thought that the same lyrics pointed towards Lambert. Lauren DuBois of EnStars stated that "the song seems to allege that [Lambert] was the one who walked away from the relationship she had with Shelton, not the other way around." Gossip website Hollywoodlife.com stated that in the song, Stefani praises Shelton but "totally disses Lambert".
caption: "Rare" includes lyrics reportedly written about Blake Shelton's ex-wife, Miranda Lambert.[14][15]
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