Keith Urban admits he was willing ‘to do anything’ to kickstart career

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In 2001, Keith Urban was willing “to do anything” to get his career off the ground, including posing for Playgirl.On a recent episode of SiriusXM’s “Literally!

With Rob Lowe,” Urban explained that a guy at his record company pitched him the idea over two decades ago, and he decided to go with it.“It was a guy at my record company who was like, ‘Hey, you know, we can do this article in Playgirl, and they’ll do a big, long, nice piece on the record.’ And I was like, ‘Great,’ and then we’ll go to a photo shoot too,” Urban told Lowe. “I was like, ‘Oh, OK.’ Luckily, I play guitar and not harmonica.”“That was fortuitous,” Lowe replied. “So, you at least knew by the time you got to the photo shoot what you were …”“Yeah.

Yep. Oh my God. Yeah. Apparently willing to do anything to get going,” Urban chimed in.Elsewhere in the podcast, Urban and Lowe talked about the country music star’s famous marriage to Nicole Kidman.

Urban admitted that although a lot of his songs are about his wife, not all of them are.“I always think about someone who has a famous partner or who writes about relationships.