Keith Urban Shares What Gets Him Excited About Christmas
Keith Urban made his love for the Christmas season with his new single, "I'll Be Your Santa Tonight." After the track was released this week, the singer talked to his record label about what he enjoys most about the holidays.
“The lights going up, which was a little earlier this year because of Thanksgiving," he said. "We didn’t wait. We just put those puppies up, and the place looked awesome.
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"We had the best Christmas-looking Thanksgiving ever. [laughs] So, the lights, the music, all of that, the house sort of transforming into Christmas. I love it. It’s sad when it all has to go away," he continued.
Urban also talked about what Christmas movies his family enjoys watching. “I love A Christmas Story, that’s a good one, and It’s a Wonderful Life, of course," he said.
"One of my main guitars is called Clarence, and it’s named after the angel [in It’s a Wonderful Life], and then for some reason, I swear, no matter what you’re doing flicking around the TV, but you’re gonna land on Charlie Brown [Christmas]. I don’t know how that happens, but it happens every year.”
Urban said that one of his favorite Christmas traditions is going to the beach, as he was raised in Australia where it is summer during the holiday.
“We still love going to the beach at Christmas time, as long as we’re in Australia, because it’s like the Fourth of July," Urban said. "It’s huge. Everybody’s out. It feels very celebratory. It’s in the ‘90s. It’s crazy, but having grown up with that, it feels very natural to me. Albeit it, we still had all of the same Christmas songs, so we’re in like 90-degree heat with shorts and tank tops singing ‘Walking in a Winter Wonderland. I remember getting Christmas cards of like Santa on a surfboard, so that probably explains a lot.”
Urban also talked about why he wanted to make an original Christmas song.
“I’ve always wanted to record a Christmas song, but I really wanted to try and write something new,” Urban explained. “So, Shane [McAnally] came to my house and we wrote, really about a Christmas gone terribly wrong. No snow. Too much fog. Nobody can make it to the party. It’s going to be a colorless Christmas, until her man comes through.”
