{"id":1320112,"date":"2020-05-20T09:04:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T15:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1821378"},"modified":"2020-05-20T09:04:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T15:04:23","slug":"how-keith-urban-is-proving-that-necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/how-keith-urban-is-proving-that-necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention\/","title":{"rendered":"How Keith Urban Is Proving That Necessity Is the Mother of Invention"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 12m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

Keith Urban has his mind made up, and he is certain \u2014 even during these uncertain times<\/em> \u2014 that nothing will come between him and his fans.<\/p>\n

After his groundbreaking concert<\/a> at the Stardust Drive-In Movie Theater in Watertown, Tennessee on May 14, he talked<\/a> to Billboard<\/em> about the experience and what it could mean for the future.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Keith Urban (@KeithUrban) May 15, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe thing that took the longest was just making sure protocols and guidelines, which were ever changing, weekly if not daily, to make sure we were checking all the right boxes and doing things the right way,\u201d Urban said, \u201cbut at the same time not letting all of those things cause us to just go, \u2019It\u2019s just too difficult. Let\u2019s just abandon the idea.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Urban hasn\u2019t been to a drive-in show in a long, long time, he said, so he didn\u2019t know that the new way of doing things is to turn your car around and so that the back is what\u2019s facing the stage. \u201cIt actually resembled a tailgate party more than a drive in. And I thought, well, that\u2019s really what we\u2019re doing. Our fans have been doing tailgate parties forever before the concert. The only thing that\u2019s changed is the tailgate party will now be the concert. We\u2019ll just bring the stage out to them. They can just hang where they are.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the (country) genre is built for it because of the tailgate party ethos that we already have naturally built into our audience. So they\u2019re used to being in and around their cars with music cranked and kind of getting their own parking lot party going on. So I think that that\u2019s very, very doable. Like I could perceive massive parking lots potentially at stadiums where you\u2019ve got thousands and thousands of cars.\u201d<\/p>\n

And while there\u2019s no follow-up show officially planned yet, Urban maintains that not playing is just not an option. \u201cWe\u2019re going to figure it out. I\u2019m not going to stay home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tell you one thing, this has brought out an extraordinary creativity in a lot of people of how to do things, how to rethink the way we approach so much of what we do,\u201d Urban added. \u201cA lot of us have gotten crazy creative in the last few months.<\/p>\n

\u201cNecessity is the mother of invention.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the last times Urban played for a crowd that was not socially distant at all was in November at the championship game of the Canadian Football League, the 2019 Grey Cup.<\/p>\n

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