A new video is here from Keith Urban and Lainey Wilson! The two talented singers just released the video for “Go Home W U,” their duet from Urban’s upcoming HIGH album, out on September 20.
Urban and Wilson first teased the video on social media, one day before it was released.
GO HOME W U official video now loading… @laineywilson https://t.co/hFslXSUU2w pic.twitter.com/OfXZ4jSX1y
— Keith Urban (@KeithUrban) August 14, 2024
Urban wrote “Go Home W U” early in the pandemic, unaware at the time that he was writing a duet.
“I wrote ‘Go Home W U’ in 2020 with BRELAND, Sam [Sumser] and Sean [Small)]” said Urban. “We had a blast writing it. It started out as a late-night drum loop, I grabbed a bass guitar and started playing a simple recurring bass line. Before we knew it, we were writing a chorus that could be sung by any drunk person in any bar anywhere in the world.”
It wasn’t Urban’s idea to make “Go Home W U” a duet, but when someone suggested it, his first thought was of Wilson.
“A friend of mine suggested the idea of making the song a duet and I immediately thought of Lainey,” Urban recalled. “Besides the fact that I love her voice, she’s got the swagger and attitude that fit so well with the song.”
Urban was already a fan of Wilson long before he asked her to sing on “Go Home W U” with him.
“Maybe two years ago, somebody had played me a song that she had recorded, I think maybe even before she started working with Jay Joyce,” Urban told Audacy’s US99. “It was just her voice, ‘Who is this?’ … There’s a thing, a je ne sais quoi, a certain quality that you can’t put your finger on.”
“It was just like, I heard her voice in a way that I thought, ‘I think our voices would go good together if we could find the right song,’” he added.
HIGH, the follow-up to the record Urban created and then scrapped, is in many ways the way Urban lives his own life, in his own unique way.
“I’ve always been drawn toward the subject of living in the moment, because it’s all there is, and it’s hard to do,” Urban said when announcing the record. “And these days with so much ‘content’ flying at us, it can feel like drinking from a fire hose.”
“What makes you ‘high’ can mean whatever you want it to mean,” he continued. “It might be physical, spiritual, herbal, meditative, chemical or musical, but it’s definitely a place of utopia.”
In addition to “Go Home W U,” Urban has also released his current single, “Messed Up As Me” plus “Straight Line,” “Wildside” and “Heart Like A Hometown.”
Pre-order/pre-save HIGH here. Urban will perform ten shows in Vegas this fall, as part of his HIGH residency. Find all of Urban’s music and upcoming shows at KeithUrban.com.
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