Artist:Keith Urban f/Carrie Underwood
Song:The Fighter
Album:Ripcord
When Keith Urban's 2013 pop influenced album Fuse returned him to the top of the country charts, he went even farther in that direction with the 2015 album Ripcord. This album also had hip hop elements. How far is too far and it's not country music anymore? It looks like Urban wasn't concerned about that. He thought a change was necessary and Ripcord continued that process. Again he decided to work with numerous producers. The most interesting experiment was the song Sun Don't Let Me Down featuring rapper Pitbull and produced by Nile Rodgers. That was not released as a single but maybe it should have been just to shake up Nashville. He also continued the use of country stars making guest appearances after the success of Eric Church on Fuse. He didn't do that early in his career. Carrie Underwood appeared on The Fighter. It was the fifth single from the album. The song reached #2 on the Country Airplay chart and #38 on the Billboard Hot 100. Urban wrote and produced the song with Mike Busbee aka busbee who was very successful until his 2019 death. Urban says the song is about his marriage to Nicole Kidman. The two did a video where they are in the car singing the song. That was pulled but it's still on YouTube. The video you will see was the third attempt. busbee produced three songs on Ripcord. And Urban's usual producer Dann Huff worked on five songs. The album was certified Platinum. It sold better than Fuse. Since then his albums haven't done as well. So he may be looking to shake things up again. Here's the video for The Fighter by Keith Urban featuring Carrie Underwood. The dancer is Lindsay Richardson. She and her boyfriend Lyle Beniga are both dancers. He appears in a version of this video.
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