Keith Urban loves the NBC drama “This Is” and the untitled Jordan Peele film from earlier this year…

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Alfred Soto: Honey-baked nostalgia about bein’ a teen when “Pour Some Sugar on Me” ruled and Keith and his girl’s feet dangled from the top of the water tower. He’s still thinking about this girl, which is his idea of romantic. At least the guitar break functions like a thunderclap.
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Ryo Miyauchi: The specifics constantly remind this is someone else’s dreams: a Harley-riding, us-against-the-world relationship is an experience out of my comprehension. But the reminiscences in the chorus still resonate as a bittersweet aftertaste lingers with each flashback, and Keith Urban lets the ellipsis of the titular phrase conclude the look into the past with poignant effect.
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Stephen Eisermann: Even the best love songs have moments of cheese in them and although I wouldn’t say this deserves anywhere close to that descriptor, it is a pretty little ditty about love lost. It’s charming, corny, well-sung, a bit verbose, but overall it is a pretty refreshing track from an otherwise stale artist.
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Edward Okulicz: I’ve got lots of problems with Keith Urban, mostly that I find him a dull narrator who can’t enliven his stories of other people’s lives or even convince me they’re his own. But this song, which I think is his best single in nearly 20 years, has a pretty melody, a believable feeling of regret and a tasteful sound. The lyrics are well-constructed, and it unfolds its nostalgia with skill and tenderness. And Urban’s old hometown of Caboolture was basically a dairy town back when “Pour Some Sugar on Me” was on the radio, so it rings true historically too — fields, water towers, the whole thing.
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Thomas Inskeep: A sweet, easy-going reminiscence of the kind Kenny Chesney used to do in his sleep, only with some Urban touches (especially a few spicy guitar licks). I can tell after only a couple of listens that this one’s gonna sink its hooks into me over time and just get better, and isn’t that the best kind of sign?
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Katherine St Asaph: Words over words over logorrheic wordswordswords over an arrangement trying to walk the “Fields of Gold.” The details in those words are plausible enough, though slightly less convincing when you remember Keith Urban’s cut an entirely different song called “We Were Us.”
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