Graffiti U

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Keith Urban songs still dominate the radio, he gets CMA and ACM nods which could go to deserving country artists. But Urban threw a curveball on Wednesday night, packing the club to capacity to play a free surprise show and unveil plans for his Graffiti U World Tour and forthcoming album, also titled Graffiti U. The eye in the pyramid is also an unusual symbol to place in a pop recording studio, but perhaps globally-minded people like Adam Minter would claim it’s “reactionary” even to point to such a thing. I don’t want to give up the progressive country though, since that’s what I enjoy (with the exception of rap). In its second week, the album fell to number 18 on the Billboard 200 and number three on the Top Country Albums chart, with 17,100 copies sold that week.

The album benefited from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with Urban's latest tour, which began on 15 June 2018. Especially in advanced drawings, which are often very abstract, the letters will still remain recognizable, if you follow this rule. Nonetheless, Graffiti U sounds like an album made by an energised, invigorated artist, and – although not every song is a complete success – the album’s several highlights find Urban to be firing on all cylinders. Jonathan Bernstein of Rolling Stone gave a two-and-a-half-star review of the album, saying "Urban deserves credit for refusing to rest on his laurels during the height of his arena-headlining mid-career, but on Graffiti U he ends up shining brightest in his well-worn comfort zones while struggling, perhaps for the first time, when he tries to break new sonic and lyrical ground".

I say “almost” because, with the passing years, I am having less and less difficulty ignoring his output.

By the way, I do not like Keith Urban at all, musicly, I admire everyone who gets off drugs, but since there are billions of them, he is just one of that bunch). But one trend we’ve also been seeing lately from artists like Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, and Tim McGraw is more of a rootsy sound, and even a bit of steel guitar.Hummm… he just won the CMA (that’s “Country Music” for those of you that don’t know) Entertainer of the Year award last night. I still think the rootsy stuff is more in the minority, at least as far as radio success is concerned.

There aren’t too many folks still on the charts from when he started…Blake Shelton and Kenny Chesney are still fairly successful, but Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, and Brad Paisley have absolutely seen their careers fade a bit. certainly this makes some sense to you and would , hopefully , seem an important and fair concern on the part of people who LOVE and are cncerned for the welfare and survival of authentic COUNTRY music . Keith Urban’s bold, creative and dynamic 10th solo studio album, Graffiti U, finds the singer continuing to make the same kind of eclectic and genre-fluid music with which he first experimented on 2013’s Fuse (Deluxe) , before realising more fully on 2016’s Ripcord .

Products shown, tagged or featured on YouTube by creators are sold by merchants and are subject to merchant's terms and conditions. He is always trying and succeeding in being a well rounded entertainer as well as an exceptionally talented musician. Adult Contemporary-leaning country pop romeo next door who always wore his heart on his sleeve that you might not love, but couldn’t help but like.

Adam ……you realize that in these spineless , anything goes , all’s fair , the dollar- is- all -that- matters times we live in that you have possible just written the best compliment a caring music community could be given ?The word "graffiti" came to him while he was working the album, because the process was like graffiti for him. angry young men cussing and denigrating women, (rap) city boys singing about tailgates and tractors (bro country) and for God’s sake the Kardashians are still on t. Each of the album’s three advance singles (‘Female’, ‘Parallel Line’ and ‘Coming Home’) has so far failed to reach the top ten of the Billboard country chart; to put this into context, prior to 'Female' the last Urban single to miss out on the top ten was ‘It’s a Love Thing’, released way back in 1999. Third, the audience was mostly in their 40’s and 50’s, and they seemed to know every word of every song by both artists. The Australian country star touches on everything from reggae-country, Eighties dance-rock, lite-FM power ballads, and muscular Top 40 on an album that manages to interpolate melodies and riffs from both Merle Haggard and Coldplay.