Keith Urban On Country Music Going Mainstream

Keith Urban was recently interviewed by “The Project”, a nightly news program in Australia.

He was on the show promoting his new album, “High”, which drops September 20th, and he had some thoughts on why Country music is so successful and mainstream these days.

“It’s a very story-oriented, relatable genre, and it always has been.”

Then Keith was asked, “So did something change?” He responded.

“It’s the confluence of everything . . . You’ve got artists that have grown up with so many different kinds of things, all these influences are coming into the genre . . . Country’s had this ability to embrace pop elements and then when it kinda starts to lose its way, it contracts back to more pure country.”

It’s a really interesting thought. Country takes in as much Pop as it can until it becomes unbearable, and then there’s a rebellion and we go back to our roots.

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This post was written by Cheryl Johnstone