Month: July 2022

Keith Urban is back with new music this week. On Friday, he dropped his newest song, “Brown Eyes Baby,” a mid-tempo burner that follows a girl who's still hurting from a breakup, but just might be able to patch up her heartbreak with a little help from someone new.

“I can put the sun right back in your sunshine / Bring a little love into your late night / Ain't gotta be nothin' but one more drink and maybe / I can take the blue out of your brown eyes, baby,” Keith sings in the song's chorus.

The song's subject matter has some common DNA with one of Keith's previous hits, “Blue Ain't Your Color,” but its melody features a smooth, sway-a-long groove that's a perfect fit for a live show. Keith's already been trying it out at some of the stops on his The Speed of Now Tour, and now that it's officially out, the singer says he can't wait to keep performing it live.

“We'll be bringing this one to life every single night with all of YOU out on tour!” the singer said on social media when he announced his song's release.

“Brown Eyes Baby” is Keith's new single. It doesn't appear on the track list of his latest album, The Speed of Now Part I, meaning that a new batch of music just might be on the way.

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Luke Combs and his wife Nicole are proud new parents to a baby boy, Tex Lawrence, who joined the family on Father's Day, June 19. Like any other parents to a newborn, they're figuring it out as they go, with help from lots of advice from their friends, family and fellow country artists. But there's one piece of advice Luke's received that he says he's taking with a grain of salt.

“The number-one thing I've heard is — gosh, what do they call it, a night nurse? That's a thing I've heard about,” he recalls. “That's a thing that I've heard about, which I was just completely unaware of that existing.”

According to WhatToExpect.com, a night nurse is a newborn care expert who helps with in-home care during the first few weeks of a baby's life, specifically at night, so that exhausted new parents can get some much-needed rest. But Luke says he and Nicole haven't hired one — at least, not yet.

“You know, I think we're gonna give it a run for a while and just kind of do it on our own,” Luke explains.

“This child didn't have a choice to be born. You know, it was our choice to bring him into the world,” the singer reasons. “So I think it would be super selfish of me to go, Oh, now I don't have time to do this thing.' And I think trying to do that on our own is something that we're looking forward to.”

Still, Luke admits that the tough realities of caring for a newborn might change his mind. “Maybe a month of no sleep will change my outlook on that. Who knows,” he admits.

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Kelsea Ballerini returns today with the whimsical, pastel-themed music video for her single, “Heartfirst.”

The clip kicks off with a meet-cute, as Kelsea bumps into a handsome stranger while carrying bags of groceries. The two lock eyes, and the song's first bars kick off as shots show Kelsea careening through the clouds on a roller coaster and singing along to the bubble melody of “Heartfirst.”

The surreal, fun-loving theme continues through the second verse, as Kelsea plays the part of a craps dealer to a group of bachelorettes. In another scene, she sits strumming an acoustic guitar in the desert, a tiger sitting beside her.

At the culmination of the video, Kelsea climbs up a ladder through the clouds until she makes it to the top of a high dive, taking a breath before she plummets off the edge and free-falls through the sky.

“Heartfirst” is the first single off of a forthcoming new album from Kelsea, which has not yet been officially announced.

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Kane Brown may be working on a full-blown country album, but he's still got plenty of pop hits in the chamber, and one of them will be out later this month.

The singer hopped on social media this week to tease the new song called “Grand.” Video footage shows Kane dancing and singing along in the studio, followed by shots from what appears to be the music video shoot, complete with futuristic strobe lights and a lit-up green background.

“Ain't life grand? / Only ones I keep around me is my fam / No coincidence, that's always been the plan / And I always keep it truly with the fans,” he sings in the clip.

“July 22!” Kane wrote in the caption of his post, encouraging fans to pre-save the track.

Kane has always put out a wide array of different musical styles, and he frequently collaborates with artists both in and outside of the country genre. Recently, he was announced as one of the contributors to EDM star Steve Aoki's upcoming duets project.

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