This Is What the Truth Feels Like lyrics such as: "They're all gonna say I'm rebounding, so rebound all over me". "This Is What the Truth Feels Like" features a range of genres; including pop, reggae, disco and dancehall, R&B, hip hop and "punky" electro-pop music. Leah Greenblatt of "Entertainment Weekly" viewed it as "an album so directly torn from Stefani's recent, much-documented romantic upheavals that it could be called 'The Ballad of Blake and Gavin". Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic added that: "Stefani spends roughly half of the record singing breezy songs of liberation." Sal Cinquemani of "Slant Magazine" commented: "While an artist converting personal tragedy
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