Watch Keith Urban Do a Live Cover of Taylor Swift’s “Lover”

Keith Urban at SXSW Festival in March 2018
Keith Urban at SXSW Festival in March 2018. Photo by Tara Mays/Variety/REX/Shutterstock (9469010g)

It appears that the Australian country singer Keith Urban is a big fan of Taylor Swift. During his recent show at the Washington State Fair in Puyallup, Urban decided to treat the audience with a slow and chilling rendition of Swift’s hit “Lover.”

Luckily for all of us that couldn’t attend the concert, Urban also decided to share the cover with the rest of the world by uploading a clip of the performance on his Instagram and YouTube.

As it turns out, he is a huge fan of “Lover,” having admitted to his social media followers that he wished he has written the track.

“Every now and then you hear a song that you love and wish you’d written and a HUGE thx to my band as well—we didn’t get to rehearse so this is us fully winging it,” Urban wrote on social media.

It didn’t take long for Swift to find out about Keith Urban’s cover and get overjoyed by it. She shared her excitement via several Instagram stories, while also going on Twitter to brag about this.

“Lover” was released in August as the third and final single from Taylor Swift’s album of the same name. The song received critical acclaim and made its way to No.19 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.