Keith Urban has got some of his fans scratching their heads. The confusion is about the similarity of the country star's new single "Somewhere in My Car" and his most recent single "Cop Car," since they both have car-related themes.
"Whoa!" says the superstar and "American Idol" judge. He declares that folks shouldn't make too much ado about the back-to-back car songs. He says the truth is simple: the release of the two automotive songs was just a coincidence...sheer happenstance...serendipity, to be sure.
"It's not intentional. It's just the themes, I guess, that hit some of my songs," Urban tells ABC News Radio. "Not all of them, it's just with these singles - the order of the singles has seen this car theme, but they're the only car songs on the whole album."
"Somewhere in My Car" is Urban's fourth single off of his "Fuse" album, and the uptempo breakup song is in the airwaves just months after his hit "Cop Car" soared up the charts, according to the Taste of Country.
Oh, yeah, one more thing: Urban is blatantly hanging his explanation to fans on a technicality. While cars are great for driving and thinking, Urban readily confesses that "Somewhere in My Car" is about a little more than just that.
"I love trucks, cars, everything, and we've got some truck songs on the record," he acknowledges. "But 'Somewhere in My Car' is really ... it's not really about a car so much as it is what happens in the backseat of a car."
There's the technicality. And a good one.
That said, Urban will be the first to admit that he does have cars on the brain pretty often. The car aficionado says he got his love for all things auto from his dad, and that it's often where he does his best soul-searching.
"My dad was a car-lover, so I really inherited that. My taste in cars run the gamut of all sorts of eclectic things, but it's trucks, too," says the singer and "American Idol" judge. "It's where I still listen to more music than anywhere ... it's just a great place of sort of coming to terms with everything, you know what I mean? It's the only quiet place you can get, sometimes."
Unless, perhaps, you're in the backseat of a car.
