Keith Urban "Get Closer" Era - November 16th, 2010

[steelzus]

At the end of a thank you video to his fans for voting for him for the Teen Choice Awards, Keith Urban says his record will be out sometime this year!

www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=581386504962&ref=mf

Update!

On September 13th, CMA Entertainer and Male Vocalist of the Year nominee Keith Urban will release his debut single “Put You In A Song”, from his forthcoming Tuesday, November 16th album release Get Closer. “Put You In A Song” was co-written by Keith, Sarah Buxton and Jedd Hughes and is co-produced by Dann Huff and Urban.

“I’ve always loved songs about ‘the guy in love with the unattainable girl’, said Keith of “Put You In A Song. “And the idea that the only chance that this poor guy is ever going to have to get close to the object of his affection is to put her in a song, just struck me. That way he’d be able to take her with him everywhere he goes...day and night.”

Keith added, “On my way to write with Jedd (Hughes) and Sarah (Buxton), I stopped by this music shop and bought a bouzouki. I got it out of the case, we got a great groove going on the drum machine, I started playing the opening riff and the song just took off.”

Get Closer follows Keith’s Billboard Top 200 Album Chart #1 Defying Gravity, which produced two #1 singles including "Only You Can Love Me This Way" and “Sweet Thing,” for which Keith won his third Grammy Award (Best Male Country Vocal Performance).

Urban is currently in the studio in Nashville, putting the finishing touches on Get Closer.

www.keithurban.net/news.html%3Fn_id%3D19202

[countryfan2002]

I'm going balistic here, even though I figured his new album would be coming this year. I'm guessing that a single should be coming at the end of this month or the beginning of September.

[steelzus]

Yep, hopefully shortly after I'm In's run is over (which will hopefully get a week at #1)!

[justlurkingaround]

I'm In needs to peak - fast. And he needs to rush release a single to release an album come October or November. And he'll have the Taylor Swift juggernaut to compete with ... Oh boy.

[steelzus]

Doesn't look like I'm In is going to get to #1, which is really sad because I'm sure they would have been able to if they really wanted to.

[steelzus]

New Single "Put You In A Song" due for September 13th! New Album "Get Closer" November 16th!

On September 13th, CMA Entertainer and Male Vocalist of the Year nominee Keith Urban will release his debut single “Put You In A Song”, from his forthcoming Tuesday, November 16th album release Get Closer. “Put You In A Song” was co-written by Keith, Sarah Buxton and Jedd Hughes and is co-produced by Dann Huff and Urban.

“I’ve always loved songs about ‘the guy in love with the unattainable girl’, said Keith of “Put You In A Song. “And the idea that the only chance that this poor guy is ever going to have to get close to the object of his affection is to put her in a song, just struck me. That way he’d be able to take her with him everywhere he goes...day and night.”

Keith added, “On my way to write with Jedd (Hughes) and Sarah (Buxton), I stopped by this music shop and bought a bouzouki. I got it out of the case, we got a great groove going on the drum machine, I started playing the opening riff and the song just took off.”

Get Closer follows Keith’s Billboard Top 200 Album Chart #1 Defying Gravity, which produced two #1 singles including "Only You Can Love Me This Way" and “Sweet Thing,” for which Keith won his third Grammy Award (Best Male Country Vocal Performance).

Urban is currently in the studio in Nashville, putting the finishing touches on Get Closer.

www.keithurban.net/news.html%3Fn_id%3D19202

[theloveablekind]

Can't wait for his new album! Hope it's more like Love, Pain and The Whole Crazy Thing then like Defying Gravity. Loved DG but it definately wasn't his best!

[kylecburke]

we need a Be Here album

[steelzus]

Yeah, would definitely prefer an album of the caliber of Golden Road or Be Here than LP&TWCT.

[bigbluenote]

LP&TWCT is the album that made me a KU fan. I didn't like much of his music before "I Told You So".

Needless to say, I'd much rather a new album closer to LP&TWCT over Be Here or Golden Road (even though I do like those albums now).

[countryfan2002]

Sept 6, 2010 10:40:06 GMT -5 kylecburke said:

we need a Be Here album

Correction: We need the album to be here.
I say Keith puts out a unique-styled album better than all his previous releases.

[Cody Wants Out...]

^ I agree. Hopefully, "Put You in a Song" will go #1 since I really want him to have a #1 this year. Sad he didn't get it with I'm In. :( Oh well, now that I think of it, Get Closer sounds like a pretty decent album title. I'll pick it up before RF's CD if I had to choose.

[kylecburke]

i told u so is a very close song that is on par with be here and Golden road, as is sweet thing and kiss a girl...most of the other tracks from last 2 albums are missing magic that songs like who wouldnt wanna be me and making memories of me had

[steelzus]

^Yeah, that's why I prefer those albums compared to his two most recent ones. Somebody like you, Who wouldn't wanna be me, You'll Think Of Me, Days Go By, Better life, etc. had that "magic" that made keith who he is. Don't get me wrong, the last two albums produced some amazing songs like stupid boy, i told you so, etc but if Get Closer can produce as big of hits as Golden Road and Be Here did then that would be amazing.

[steelzus]

Lyrics to "Put You In A Song"
Source:
www.countrymusictattletale.com/2010/09/09/read-the-lyrics-to-keith-urbans-new-tune

Well here you come again and you’re lookin’ so fine
You don’t notice me but it’s alright
I’m just a guy who wishes that I could be your man someday
Yeah a picture paints a thousand words it’s true
But it’s still not enough for how I feel about you
I wanna put you in a melody, I gotta set you to a groove

(Chorus)

I wanna put you in my car and drive
And turn you up loud, roll down all the windows and shout it out
I love this girl oh
If I could press play, repeat how happy I’d be
Wherever I’d go I’d have you there with me
You’d be right where you belong
I wanna put you in a song, oh oh oh

Well I’d sing about your smile and your pretty blue eyes
The way your hair shimmers in the sunlight
It’d be so easy I’d just write it from my heart
‘Cause I gotta tell the world what you mean to me
Wrap you up in a melody so you’ll be
Stuck in my head all day
‘Cause you’re already there anyway, yes you are

(Chorus)

I wanna put you in my car and drive
And turn you up loud, roll down all the windows and shout it out
I love this girl
If I could press play, repeat how happy I’d be
Wherever I’d go I’d have you there with me
You’d be right where you belong
I wanna put you in a song

And if I get it right everybody’d be singing along yeah
And when they see you on the street they’ll say
Hey ain’t you the girl in that song

(Chorus)

I wanna put you in my car and drive
And turn you up loud, roll down all the windows and shout it out
I’m in love with this girl
Yeah if I could press play, rewind a couple million times
Imagine for a moment that you’re all mine
Every night I’d drive you home
If I could put you in a
Let me put you in a song
Let me put you in a song
Oh a pretty little song about you baby

Also: new studio session video:

www.keithurban.net/album_blog.html

[steelzus]

Put You In A Song artwork:

[steelzus]

Link to Keith's new single:
kmle108.radio.com/2010/09/13/new-keith-urban-song-put-you-in-a-song/

[theloveablekind]

Sept 13, 2010 11:28:20 GMT -5 steelzus said:

Link to Keith's new single:
kmle108.radio.com/2010/09/13/new-keith-urban-song-put-you-in-a-song/

The only word that comes to mind is boring.

*sigh*

Let's hope the rest of the album has some better songs.

[steelzus]

Really? I think it's pretty catchy and radio friendly and will do well for him. But yeah, I do hope this isn't the best song on the album and I don't think it will be.

[theloveablekind]

Sept 13, 2010 14:08:03 GMT -5 steelzus said:

Really? I think it's pretty catchy and radio friendly and will do well for him. But yeah, I do hope this isn't the best song on the album and I don't think it will be.

It is catchy and it'll probably be a radio hit but to me it's nothin special. It seems like I'm listening to one of the songs of DG but just a little reworked.

I was hoping for something a little more meaningfull...I don't want an entire album in honour of Nicole Kidman again.

[steelzus]

Yeah, I do agree with the DG feel. This song definitely doesn't have that "magic" that we were all hoping for.

[kylecburke]

the songs meh....but it may grow on me, I hope this cd is great! DG really had me dissapointed, all the songs were soo slowish except 3 and 2 were lead singles

[steelzus]

Starting to get a little tired of PYiaS to be honest.

But in recent Keith Urban news:

Keith posted two options to his facebook to get his fans's opinions on what cover would be best for his album!





I think the first one is way better, it also has way more likes on FB as well.

[EPG]

I love the first one, but the writing is better on the second one.

[lyrichord]

The second one looks creepy with the headless body behind him.

[steelzus]

Track Listing and Official Cover:



1. 'Put You in a Song'
2. 'You Gonna Fly'
3. 'All for You'
4. 'Long Hot Summer'
5. 'Without You'
6. 'Georgia Woods'
7. 'Right on Back to You'
8. 'Shut Out the Lights'

www.theboot.com/2010/10/11/keith-urban-get-closer-album-cover-track-list/?ref=nf

Surprised to only see 8 songs

[steelzus]

www.theboot.com/2010/10/18/keith-urban-get-closer-album/
'Get Closer' Retail Track List:

1. 'Put You in a Song'
2. 'You Gonna Fly'
3. 'All for You'
4. 'Long Hot Summer'
5. 'Without You'
6. 'Georgia Woods'
7. 'Right on Back to You'
8. 'Shut out the Lights'

'Get Closer' Deluxe Target-Exclusive Track List:

9. 'Big Promises'
10. 'The Luxury of Knowing'
11. 'Winning'
12. 'Once in a Lifetime (Live)
13. 'You Look Good in my Shirt' (Live)
14. 'Better Life' (Live)
15. 'Everybody' (Live)

[Deleted]

Boo at only 8 tracks. I guess I'm going to Target.

I was blessed to see Keith perform "up close and personal" at my company today. It was mostly Q&A, but he did perform Put You in a Song and Shut out the Lights (plus Better Life as a request song). I like Keith's recorded music, but I absolutely love him as a live performer. He's just so full of energy and charisma. I could watch him perform all day.

Shut out the Lights is about that expression, "Don't go to bed angry," but when you and your partner are just too tired to resolve the issue. So you have to give it up, and decide you'll resolve the issue tomorrow.

He talked a bit about his writing process. He frequently uses drum machines while he works out the melody, and usually composes the music first, then the lyrics.

[wastedtime]

Oct 28, 2010 22:29:19 GMT -5 @kungaloosh said:

Boo at only 8 tracks. I guess I'm going to Target.

I was blessed to see Keith perform "up close and personal" at my company today. It was mostly Q&A, but he did perform Put You in a Song and Shut out the Lights (plus Better Life as a request song). I like Keith's recorded music, but I absolutely love him as a live performer. He's just so full of energy and charisma. I could watch him perform all day.

Shut out the Lights is about that expression, "Don't go to bed angry," but when you and your partner are just too tired to resolve the issue. So you have to give it up, and decide you'll resolve the issue tomorrow.

He talked a bit about his writing process. He frequently uses drum machines while he works out the melody, and usually composes the music first, then the lyrics.

Thanks for the recap. Was Shut out the Lights a ballad?

I imagine I'll end up with the Target version as well. But I'm very curious what they will price the 8-track version at.

[steelzus]

wastedtime

www.keithurban.net/index.php?page=album_blog&b_id=19488 The second song he does there is a snippet from "turn out the lights" from a studio session in september. Perhaps he changed the lyrics from "turn" to "shut"? Does it sound like the same song kungaloosh?

Also agreed, I absolutely love watching keith do solo acoustic performances.