Keith Urban Knows Why Most Men Are At His Concerts
Keith Urban has been a superstar in country music playing for full crowds and arenas all over the country for over 20 years now. But when Keith looks out into…
Keith Urban has been a superstar in country music playing for full crowds and arenas all over the country for over 20 years now. But when Keith looks out into the crowd, he says that he sees mostly women and only the occasional guy. Why is that?
In a recent interview, Urban talked frankly about this. "I call them 'the reluctant boyfriends.' I see them out in the crowd. I look out in the arena and see all these guys with their arms folded."
He imitated most men at his shows, saying, "'Ughh, she seems happy. I'm gonna get laid tonight at least, thank God. I just gotta put up with this guy for the next two hours.'"
He said that throughout the show, eventually, it would "completely change," and the guys walk out "very, very different." The singer said that they always start out as sort of reluctant guys that got dragged along to a concert. He said he "gets it."
Urban’s new album, High, is available now wherever you get your music. He first started working on an album in 2022, but because he felt the album wasn’t quite right, he scrapped most of the album and started over, taking only a few songs to the new project.
Keith told us, "I took this album, the previous album, that had a title and everything, 13 songs, took it in, played it for my inner circle of people, my team, people I trust, in February 2023, and was so excited to play it, and I must have got four or five songs in, and I could feel my own conviction level just deflating about this album."
He continued, "I said, 'It’s not it, is it?' And they’re like, 'Well, you tell me, it’s your record.' And I’m like, 'It’s not, I know it’s not.' I knew that was gonna take a long time. Sure enough, it took another year of writing and recording. This is the weirdest thing. I’ve made a lot of records. I usually have a very clear idea of what I want to do. And I had that with this other start. And it didn’t pan out. And so I was sort of thrown. I’m like, 'Well, I don’t know what to do.' And I know this sounds weird. Some people might think I’m completely loopy."
He concluded, "But there were several songs that felt like they were saying to me, 'We don’t belong here, we belong on this other record.' So take us with you and have faith in us and get back in the studio and write, and you’ll see this new record will happen with us in there, and it will be the record we belong to because we don’t belong with this record."
