Keith Urban Is Definitely Not A ‘Snow Globe’
When you see him in concert, Keith Urban is a guitar-slinging ball of energy. He is an artist who likes to feed off of his crowd each and every night.
As Keith told us in a recent interview, not all music artists, including one of his close friends in music, are that way. He explained,
“I was on the phone with a very well-known artist friend of mine last year. He posed a question to me, ‘If you could play arenas for the rest of your life, but they’re only fifty percent full, would you still want to go on tour?’ And I said, ‘Well, I have a follow-up question. What kind of people are in the fifty percent?’ And he said, ‘Well, does that matter?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, it really matters; if the entire fifty percent of them are sitting, watching the show like it’s a Ted Talk, I probably wouldn’t want to do that.'”
Urban added, “I need energy. I give the audience energy, and I hope that they give it back to me and I give it back to them. That’s how I like to play.”
Snow Globe
Keith continued, “I said, ‘Does that not matter to you?’ and he said, ‘No, I couldn’t care less. It doesn’t make any difference.’ He said, ‘I’m a snow globe; you just watch what I do. However you want to watch it doesn’t bother me in the least.’ Which I thought was interesting, but that artist was true to who he was and how he liked to perform, just as I was. So we learned something about each other in that conversation.”
He concluded, “Some artists are a snow globe. I’m definitely not. I like participation.”
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Urban has been working on a new album slated for release later this year. On the new project, Keith teased that he has one collaboration.
He told us, “I have one collab on this record, which we recorded a duet and we recorded it last summer. It’s been so frustrating sitting on this song, which will come up in a year, probably by the time it comes out. It’s just been sitting waiting to come out, but I’m so excited for that to come out.”
Mystery Duet
So, who is the duet with? Urban would not say. He smiled evasively when asked who the mystery duet would be with and said, “I can’t wait for you to hear it because it was a lot of fun doing it.”
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