Keith Urban on New Album 'Speed of Now,' Possible Return of Live Music
I struggled with that the most because it felt so weird to open with two guested songs. I was like, “What am I doing here?” But I took the people I was singing with, Breland and Pink, out of the equation and just looked at the songs and the energy, the feel, the subject matter, the key, the tempo, everything about them. Even the keys of songs is important to me as far as transitions from one song into the next. I hate albums that have like three songs in a row that are all in the same key.
“Out the Cage” is lightning fast, in its production and your vocal delivery. How’d you find that tempo? I like writing from a place of energy. I guess that’s really being a guitar player. I love having a rhythmic foundation to create upon, whether that’s writing with drum machines, which I’ve done most of my career, or loops. Heck, I’ve written stuff with just a metronome. Just because the hypnoticlets you mess with the rhythms as a player. I always loved “Firestarter” by the Prodigy, that kind of Nineties English beat that Fatboy Slim used a lot.
“Say Something” is a call to raise one’s voice, but on more of an interpersonal level than about specific issues. I wanted to take it into a personal place, because I thought “Say Something” isn’t just about speaking up socially. I thought about my dad. I was raised in a house with a father who was always like “Ah, you know, just don’t rock the boat. Don’t speak out against things; just be quiet.” I was raised like that, and that way of being was somewhat problematic in our family, because we also didn’t say anything. We didn’t speak about things. We weren’t really an intimate family.
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