Keith Urban Thinks Miley Cyrus’ Voice ‘Sounds Like an Ashtray’ — But It’s a ‘Compliment’
Miley Cyrus, consider Keith Urban your No. 1 fan.
“I’ve always loved Miley. I love that voice, man, that voice,” Urban, 56, said during a recent appearance on Nova 96.9’s “Fitzy and Wippa with Kate Ritchie” radio show in Sydney. “She sounds like an ashtray. And I mean that as a compliment. She sounds like the carpet at the RSL.” (Common throughout Australia, the Returned and Services League of Australia clubs were established in the 20th century and offer hospitality, entertainment and gambling.)
Urban has been a country mainstay for decades, further noting how many other artists — from Post Malone to Beyoncé — are starting to cross over in the genre.
“Lana Del Rey’s got one coming out, too, that I’ve heard a couple tracks of, it’s amazing,” he said. “I think it’s great. I mean, all this stuff converges at some point.”
Urban added, “Country’s always evolved, shrunk, expanded, shrunk. The only thing that’s changed is that all these pop acts are coming to Nashville to try and get on a collab with someone from country. It’s never happened before.”
According to Urban, it’s a “funny” concert because artists still need to have “the support of the system” in the city of Nashville.
“If you go about it the right way, like Post [Malone] did, you’ll see the love,” Urban says, going on to praise “rootsy [and] authentic” storytellers like Luke Bryan and Lainey Wilson for breaking through the industry into the mainstream. “They’re just legit people and I think a lot of people are sick of the BS [of] what’s real and what isn’t.”