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(L-R) Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman attend The 2023 Met Gala Celebrating “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 01, 2023 in New York City.
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As Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman’s relationship is undergoing changes, so is the country star’s music.
At a recent concert, Urban switched up a lyric in “The Fighter” — a song he has previously said was inspired by his now estranged wife — to reference tourmate Maggie Baugh. Rather than singing “When they’re tryna get to you, baby I’ll be the fighter,” Urban sang instead “When they’re tryna get to you, Maggie I’ll be your guitar player.”
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The lyric change came as Urban was performing the song with Baugh — who has been supporting him on his ongoing tour — playing guitar next to him on stage. The 25-year-old rising country artist shared the footage of the moment on her Instagram on Saturday (Sept. 27), just two days before Billboard confirmed that Urban and Kidman had separated after 19 years of marriage.
“Did he just say that,” Baugh captioned the clip.
The alteration comes nine years after Urban dropped “The Fighter” with Carrie Underwood. The track reached No. 38 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 2 on the Hot Country Songs chart.
In 2017, the Australian-American singer told Billboard about how a talk with Kidman had served as the inspiration for “The Fighter.” “It’s all from a conversation my wife and I had early on in our relationship, that when things get tough, I need to hold her tighter and just try to take care of her,” he said at the time. “The song is about wanting to heal somebody, wanting to take care of somebody, wanting to protect somebody. It’s really like a vow in so many ways.”
Urban first started dating the Golden Globe winner in 2005, and the couple tied the knot the following year. They share two teenage daughters.
One day after it was revealed that they had separated after two decades together, Kidman filed for divorce on Tuesday (Sept. 30), citing “marital difficulties and irreconcilable differences.”
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