Keith Urban tells Don’t tell me

Country singer and songwriter Keith Urban told USA Today how the chopped-up ukulele pattern which makes the most distinctive musical feature of his new track “Little Bit of Everything“, currently at #24 in the magazines’s Country airplay chart – links back to Madonna’s “Don’t Tell Me“.

“She had a staccato acoustic guitar part in there that I thought was very cool. On the demo that Kevin did, it was more of a strummed part, just a straight-up Hey Soul Sister thing. Nathan was playing an arpeggiated piece, which I thought was kind of cool, and then he hit the mute button accidentally and I said, ‘Oh, I like that!”

Little Bit was written by pop/hip-hop artist Kevin Rudolf, known for his 2008 single Let It Rock, along with Nashville songwriters Brad and Brett Warren.