While once best known as a country artist, Taylor Swift has branched out within the world of music. She’s collaborated with everyone from indie rockers like Aaron Dessner to rappers like Kendrick Lamar. But given her origins, it makes sense that country-music mega-star Keith Urban heavily influenced her style.
Taylor Swift and Keith Urban are long-time friends
[embedded content]▶” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/0JHDQjciUts?feature=oembed” frameborder=”0″ allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture” allowfullscreen>
First performing together when Swift was a supporting act for Urban’s Escape Together World Tour in 2009, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban have a long-standing friendship. Since then, they collaborated in 2013 on Tim McGraw’s “Highway Don’t Care” with Swift as a guest vocalist and Urban on guitar. The friends linked up again in 2014, with Urban joining Swift on stage in Toronto during her 1989 World Tour. More recently, video footage of Urban covering Swift’s song “Lover” created buzz.
