Keith Urban Shares 5 Things You Didn’t Know About New Song ‘Straight Line’ | Billboard

Country star Keith Urban shares 5 things you didn’t know about his new song “Straight Line.”

Keith Urban
Hey, Billboard, it’s Keith Urban here. These are five things you didn’t know about my new song “Straight Line.”

Keith Urban
This song was originally recorded with just drum machine and no real drums and we finished out the whole song. And for whatever reason, we just felt like it was linear and not going anywhere. And so we decided to put real drums on it. And when we did, it changed the whole thing in a big way. So shout-out to all the real drummers out there. When we started writing, the song was written in a stream of consciousness. … We had a groove and we kept singing, “Late night lover, late night lover.” And when one of the other writers was singing it, I thought he was saying straight line lover, and I thought that was more interesting. And then we were wondering what “straight line lover” meant and so we just trimmed it down to “Straight Line.”

Keith Urban
I wrote this song with my bass player, Jerry Flowers, the guy called Chase McGill. And a great producer/ songwriter called Greg Wells, a great musician, the four of us had never written together. We had two days to write. And the very first day we wrote a song and the very second day we wrote “Straight Line.” Both of the songs we wrote will be on this album.

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