{"id":16528,"date":"2025-05-11T02:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T02:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new50.info\/?p=16528"},"modified":"2025-05-11T02:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T02:32:12","slug":"keith-urban-kicked-off-the-performance-with-a-fiery-guitar-riff-as-a-young-girl-on-a-bus-slipped-on-her-headphones-stepping-off-she-broke-into-a-perfectly-timed-dance-syncing-with-urbans-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new50.info\/?p=16528","title":{"rendered":"Keith Urban kicked off the performance with a fiery guitar riff as a young girl on a bus slipped on her headphones. Stepping off, she broke into a perfectly timed dance, syncing with Urban\u2019s opening lyrics. 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They have also performed the song at other award shows, including the ACM Awards, which you can see below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rll-youtube-player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tt5cix4b_3E\" data-id=\"Tt5cix4b_3E\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" data-alt=\"The Fighter\">\n<div data-id=\"Tt5cix4b_3E\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tt5cix4b_3E\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Fighter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tt5cix4b_3E\" width=\"350\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"350\" data-origheight=\"235\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The music video opens with Urban playing the opening riff on his electric guitar interlaced with footage of a young girl on the bus putting in headphones. After the girl gets off the bus, she walks down the street and then breaks into a choreographed dance perfectly timed with Urban\u2019s opening lyrics.<\/p>\n<div id=\"AdThrive_Content_1_desktop\" class=\"adthrive-ad adthrive-sticky-container adthrive-content adthrive-content-1 adthrive-ad-cls\" data-google-query-id=\"CJWg-oDOgYYDFcE6-QAdHkAA6w\">\n<p>Underwood appeared for the chorus, asking Urban, \u201cWhat if I fall?\u201d, to which he responds, \u201cI won\u2019t let you fall.\u201d Right off the bat, Underwood sets the tone for her character, who gets in the groove by dancing through the entire music video. The video was set in a concrete-looking studio with lots of lights, which Urban felt was reminiscent of<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201c<em>Here we are from the set, it looks a bit like a boxing ring, although Carrie and I get along pretty well,<\/em>\u201d he\u00a0said in the video. Seeing as the title of the song is \u201cThe Fighter,\u201d it makes a lot of sense that the video is set in a boxing ring type of setting.<\/p>\n<p>The video goes back and forth between footage of Urban and Underwood performing the call-and-answer styled song together in the boxing ring filled with lights, and a young, beanie-clad woman dancing in the street.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew Carrie Underwood had moves like this?! We sure didn\u2019t, but we do know that we absolutely loved seeing this side of her! We know that there is a professional dancer, with choreographed dance moves shown throughout the video, but Carrie\u2019s looked improvised \u2013 as if she was overtaken by the music.<\/p>\n<h3>Urban included \u201cThe Fighter\u201d on his GRAMMY-nominated country album\u00a0<em>Ripcord<\/em>.<\/h3>\n<p>Upon the album\u2019s release in May 2016, \u201cThe Fighter\u201d sold 25,000 copies and debuted at number 25 on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s Hot Country Songs chart, jumping to number 11 the next week. It\u2019s amazing for a song to have this kind of success without being released as a single, which they finally did on February 6, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>While being\u00a0interviewed by Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet at the Grammys, Underwood\u00a0described\u00a0their duet as \u201c<em>a dance-y type song<\/em>\u201d and a song the will \u201c<em>get stuck in your head in a good way.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Urban was inspired to write\u00a0the call-and-response styled song with songwriter and producer busbee when he was \u201cthinking about how long it\u2019d been since I heard a song with a guy and girl actually speaking back and forth to each other,\u201d according to\u00a0<em>The Boot<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201c<em>It\u2019s a song about helping to heal and protect someone you love. It\u2019s a song about reassurance that you\u2019ll always be there to take the blows the world can throw. Carrie and I had sung together before, and I thought our voices blended really well \u2014 so she was unquestionably the right choice. It was such a relief that she wanted to do it.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fighter\u201d was nominated for Musical Event of the Year at the 2016 CMA Awards, and won a CMT Award for Collaborative Music Video of the Year. Urban and Underwood also took home an ACM Award for Vocal Event of the Year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood won the ACM Award for Vocal Event of the Year in 2018. (Photo credit: ACM \u2013 Academy of Country Music \/ Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Their voices sound incredible together and we can\u2019t imagine any other duo being able to pull this song off. Watch their music video for \u201cThe Fighter\u201d below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"rll-youtube-player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GzT4p-OaJ5c\" data-id=\"GzT4p-OaJ5c\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" data-alt=\"Keith Urban - The Fighter ft. Carrie Underwood (Official Music Video)\">\n<div data-id=\"GzT4p-OaJ5c\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GzT4p-OaJ5c\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Keith Urban - The Fighter ft. 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