Grab your feline friend and take my sweater, 'cause Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman have weathered all the storms they need to. In fact, the country music star himself urged fans to stop overanalyzing every move they make amid their divorce during one of his recent concerts, leaving them feeling a whole lot better.
During his performance of "You'll Think of Me" at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on October 17th, Urban pleaded with the audience not to dissect any changes to the lyrics. "I've been singing this song for a long time," he told the crowd, according to a TikTok video. "Stop reading into it."
Yet, the audience couldn't help but notice the tweaks he made. In the video, Urban can be heard adding an expletive to the line, "Take your records, take your freedom / Take your memories, I don’t need them / Take your space and all your bulls--t reasons / But you’re gonna think about me.” Similarly, he made some adjustments to the lyrics, “Take your cat and leave my sweater / ‘Cause we’ve got nothing left to weather / In fact, I’ll feel a hell of a lot better / But you’ll think of me.”
It's easy to understand why Urban felt the need to issue this warning. After all, the Grammy winner has been under a lot of scrutiny since fans first learned of his split from Kidman last month. So when any moment from his High and Alive tour could be interpreted as even the slightest reference to their divorce, it went viral.
Take, for instance, when Urban met an audience member at the Tennessee show who was initially hesitant to introduce herself because of her moniker. "I’m not going to like your name?" the puzzled musician said into the microphone before the fan noted it was Nicole, leading him to then jokingly fall onto his back.
Or the time when Urban raised eyebrows by changing the lyrics of "The Fighter"—a song he noted was written about the promises he made to Kidman in the early days of their relationship. Instead of singing "when they're tryna get to you, baby, I'll be the fighter," he gave a nod to his guitarist Maggie Baugh by belting out, "When they're tryna get to you, Maggie, I'll be your guitar player." The onstage moment even seemed to catch her by surprise. Resharing a clip of the number on Instagram on September 27th, Baugh wrote, "Did he just say that?"
However, fellow country music artist Alexandra Kay has slammed romance rumors about Baugh and Urban—sharing that Baugh is already in a relationship with someone else. "I was heartbroken for them," she told Evan Paul on Taste of Country Nights when asked about Urban and Kidman's split. "Because just the media scrutiny is insane and the things I'm seeing people say. They're stirring up rumors about Maggie Baugh, and I'm like, 'She's a good friend of mine and I know that that's absolutely not true.' I've met her boyfriend, and she's very happy, and she has nothing to do with that whole relationship. I feel sad for everybody involved that people are doing that and picking apart their personal life."
Urban hasn't publicly shared what led to the end of his 19-year marriage with Kidman. In fact, the singer hasn't even posted on Instagram since the Oscar winner filed for divorce on September 30th—with his last post on the 'grid being a September 26th video he jointly shared with CBS and Blake Shelton to promote their new show The Road. But that hasn't stopped followers from wondering how long Urban and Kidman’s union had actually been dissolving. After learning of their split, several social media users resurfaced interviews from over the past year in which the "Kiss A Girl" artist seemingly avoided going into detail when asked about his relationship with the Moulin Rouge! actress. And by the time Kidman filed for divorce—citing "marital difficulties and irreconcilable differences"—she and Urban had already worked out a parenting plan for their daughters Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret
