Gwen Stefani drops music video for 'Used To Love You' on Vevo

Gwen Stefani at 57th Grammy Awards in LA — Gwen Stefani performs"My Heart is Open" with Adam Levine (not pictured) at the 57th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California February 8, 2015. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson

Gwen Stefani has dropped the official music video for her new single, “Used To Love You” shortly after she performed the song live at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.

The nearly 4-minute video shows Stefani up-close facing the camera, expressing a raw set of emotions, from sadness and pain to frustration and anger.

Sophie Muller directed the “Used To Love You” video, according to RollingStone. Muller is a long-time collaborator of Stefani, way before the latter broke out into her solo career. The director has helmed several music videos, including “Don’t Speak,” “Push and Shove” and “Simple Kind of Life.”

“Used To Love You” is a prelude to Stefani's upcoming third solo album.

In an interview with Yahoo Music, she said that an album was a long time coming but she did not want to rush it. The “Sweet Escape” singer said that the plan was to get back with her band No Doubt, but everything got blindsided when she became pregnant with her third child, Apollo.

She also told Yahoo Music that last year, she came close to releasing a full album featuring collaborations with other artists but the project got shelved. Stefani said that at the time, it did not feel right and it did not feel as honest as she wanted it to.

In a separate interview with Entertainment Weekly, Stefani spilled that she is now ready to release new material, and that she already has an album’s worth of new music since she began writing in June.

“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,” she said.