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"&amp;quot;We Were Us,&amp;quot; the 16th Number One hit for Keith Urban that pairs him in a wistful duet with Miranda Lambert, was actually close to being landed in the hands of someone a little peachier &amp;#x2014; a &amp;quot;Georgia Peach,&amp;quot; actually.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I think they were talking about Lauren Alaina doing it at one point,&amp;quot; the song&amp;apos;s co-writer Jon Nite told Rolling Stone Country upstairs at Nashville&amp;apos;s Music City Tippler, a bar on the ground level of the Adelicia building that houses Taylor Swift&amp;apos;s palatial penthouse. Nite, along with co-writers Jimmy Robbins and Nicolle Galyon, had gathered with Urban to celebrate the song&amp;apos;s chart-topping status at the official (but belated &amp;#x2014; &amp;quot;We Were Us&amp;quot; first peaked last year) Number One Party. Unable to attend, Lambert&amp;apos;s greeting was beamed-in via video shown on the venue&amp;apos;s televisions. &amp;quot;Have [a drink] for me,&amp;quot; she told the libation-sipping crowd that included former &amp;quot;Voice&amp;quot; contestant RaeLynn.\r\nLuckily for the Aussie singer (and unfortunate for former American Idol runner-up Alaina), Urban snagged the tune first. &amp;quot;It was one of those immediate things,&amp;quot; he told reporters at a press conference on his first listen. &amp;quot;It started out that I loved the imagery. I love that way of songwriting where you can plug everything else in as a listener &amp;#x2014; it&amp;apos;s like telegraph writing: &amp;apos;Had baby, stop. 8 lbs, 7 oz, stop.&amp;apos; You fit everything else in between.&amp;quot;\r\nThe decision to recruit Lambert was an easy one. &amp;quot;Her face and voice just came to me,&amp;quot; Urban says, though convincing his team that a male-female duet led in by the woman&amp;apos;s voice was a much more difficult battle.\r\n&amp;quot;So many people said, &amp;apos;You can&amp;apos;t put that on the radio with her singing first,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; Urban said, sitting casually in a blue Obey t-shirt that allowed his signature tattoos to pop out. He&amp;apos;d tried switching the order of the verses, but it didn&amp;apos;t click. &amp;quot;It was just so wrong. We were very lucky that the powers-that-be go behind it.&amp;quot; And with Urban and Lambert on competing labels, there was even some uncertainly that it could move beyond an album track (from 2013&amp;apos;s Fuse), or happen at all.\r\nOf course, it was a good gamble &amp;#x2013; the single went platinum, the plaque of which was awarded to Urban later in the event before the songwriters took the stage to claim their various awards. For Galyon&amp;apos;s turn, she reminisced about the first time she saw Urban sing, back before he hit superstar status.\r\n&amp;quot;The first time I was on a plane was to Fan Fair,&amp;quot; she told the audience. &amp;quot;And I saw Keith play at Tower Records. I&amp;apos;d never seen anyone play the guitar like that. And I&amp;apos;d certainly never heard anyone talk like that in country music.&amp;quot;\r\nTo commemorate the occasion, the three co-writers adorned themselves with matching &amp;quot;Every Word&amp;quot; tattoos &amp;#x2014; walking from the press conference into the main party room, Galyon and Robbins showed off theirs, on her forearm and his bicep, respectively.\r\nUrban didn&amp;apos;t join the writers for new ink, but he did invite them on stage to sing a stripped-down version of &amp;quot;We Were Us.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Cheers,&amp;quot; he said, before dissolving into a crowd of congratulatory handshakes."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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