“Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me”
Keith Urban
Written by Monty Powell and Keith Urban
Radio & Records
#1 (1 week)
October 31, 2003
Billboard
#1 (1 week)
November 8, 2003
This is generic Keith Urban, saved by a memorable production.
Lyrically, “Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me” is boilerplate turn of the century country, right down to the pretty girl in the passenger seat with bare knees.
But the production, especially the sizzling guitar work, makes the track come alive. It captures the tension between what he’s lacking and what he has right next to him, and makes it believable that he doesn’t need any worldly possessions to be happy as long as he has his partner.
It still needed to be tightened up. Repeating the first verse at the end was gratuitous and one less chorus would’ve made things more efficient and ensured that the song didn’t wear out it’s welcome.
But I could listen to that instrumental track all day every day.
“Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me” gets a B.
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