Crimson Blue

Album: single release only (2021)
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Songfacts®:

  • Keith Urban recorded "Crimson Blue" as the closing credits song for the finale of the Hulu series Nine Perfect Strangers. The show stars Urban's wife Nicole Kidman, who portrays the leader of an experimental wellness retreat.
  • Urban co-wrote the mellow track with his "Out The Cage" collaborator Breland, along with Sean Small and Sam Sumser. It finds him introducing psychedelic imagery as the singer wonders whether he is dreaming or wide awake. Questioning reality captures the essence of the mysterious series created by Hulu.
  • Urban, Small, and Sumser served as producers on the track.
  • The instrumentation is by:

    Acoustic guitar: Keith Urban
    Bass: Jimmie Lee Sloas
    Drum: Matt Chamberlain
    Synthesizer and keyboards: Sam Sumser
  • Urban released the song on September 20, 2021. The country star promoted it the same day with a video where he enthusiastically whips up a special "Crimson Blue" smoothie. It mirrors the one Kidman's Nine Perfect Strangers character, Masha, makes during the series.

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