KEITH URBAN DEBUTS OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR LATEST SINGLE, ‘GOD WHISPERED YOUR NAME”
Last
month four-time GRAMMY Award winner and reigning ACM Entertainer of the
Year Keith Urban, released his new single “God Whispered Your Name.” A
week later
it was his biggest streaming debut to date. As it continues to move up
the charts, now comes the release of the song’s official music video,
directed byJennifer Massaux,that perfectly complements a song that as Urban states can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people. See the video here https://umgn.us/GWYNVideo.To listen to “God Whispered Your Name” click herehttps://strm.to/KUGWYN.
“I
wanted to first try and capture a sense of isolation, a lonely, dark
place, that transitions into light a bit more as the video progresses,
which for me is how I found
my own world opening up as I went along my journey,” said Urban.
But
as Urban tells it the video had its challenges. “That dark and lonely
place, was underneath a warehouse in Nashville, literally
the darkest, dank and smelly place. We spent the whole morning
there shooting everything that you now see in the first part of the
video.”
But the smell wasn’t the only challenge.
“There
was water in this room that I thought was like an inch deep,” explains
Urban. “So, I opened the door, walked in and it was really about a
foot. The first idea
I had was to put my feet and socks into a garbage bag – tie them up and
put my shoes on. I’d have my foot, my sock, a garbage bag and then my
shoe – it made so much sense – but the water went everywhere. At the
end of the shoot I took my boots off and they
were drenched – probably as much water in the bag as there was in the
waterway!”
The
video’s cinematic sense of space and light is represented best as Urban
is seen, from a variety of different drone shots, playing his guitar
while balanced atop a
boulder on an extraordinary mountainscape located just outside of the
small town of Lancaster, California. “Playing guitar atop a boulder is
definitely not a great idea. You just kinda lose yourself in what
you’re doing, and every minute or two you realize
what you’re doing, and you think, ‘I better not fall off this big ass boulder!’”
But
in the end, Urban’s goal is very basic. “For me, a good music video
takes the song to another level. It maybe gives the song a bit more
dimension and hopefully we’ve
done that with this one.”