We Were Us

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"We Were Us"
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Single by Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert
from the album Fuse
Released 16 September 2013 (2013-09-16)
Format Music download
Genre Country folk
Length 3:11
Label Capitol Nashville/Hit Red
Writer(s) Nicolle Galyon, Jimmy Robbins, Jon Nite
Producer(s) Keith Urban, Nathan Chapman[1]
Keith Urban singles chronology
"Shame"
(2013)		 "We Were Us"
(2013)		 "Cop Car"
(2014)
Miranda Lambert singles chronology
"All Kinds of Kinds"
(2013)		 "We Were Us"
(2013)		 "Automatic"
(2014)

"We Were Us" is a song written by Nicolle Galyon, Jimmy Robbins, and Jon Nite, and sung by Australian country music singer Keith Urban as a duet with American country singer Miranda Lambert. It is the second international single and third overall released from Urban's 2013 album Fuse.

Content

The song is the narrators' reminiscence of lost love. Lambert sings the first verse, Urban sings the second verse, and both sing the choruses and bridge together. It is in the key of D major with a vocal range of A3-A5.[2]

Critical reception

Giving it 4 out of 5 stars, Matt Bjorke of Roughstock compared its theme favorably to "Springsteen" by Eric Church, and praised the blending of Urban's and Lambert's voices, although he criticized the production as "a bit too busy and loud".[3]

"We Were Us" won Musical Event of the Year at the 2014 CMA Awards.[4]

Personnel

From liner notes to Fuse:[5]

Music video

The music video was directed by Reid Long and premiered in November 2013.[6]

Commercial performance

The song debuted at number 49 on Country Airplay for the week ending 21 September 2013. The next week, it climbed to number 29, while debuting at 24 on Hot Country Songs.[7] Its chart run has overlapped with Lambert's single "All Kinds of Kinds", the fifth from her album Four the Record. The song has sold 566,000 copies in the US as of January 2014.[8]

Charts and certifications

Preceded by Billboard Hot Country Songs
number-one single
November 23–December 7, 2013		 Succeeded by
"Stay"
by Florida Georgia Line
Preceded by Billboard Country Airplay
number-one single
December 7, 2013		 Succeeded by
"Sunny and 75"
by Joe Nichols

References

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  9. ↑ "Keith Urban – Chart history" Canadian Hot 100 for Keith Urban.
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  12. ↑ "Keith Urban – Chart history" Billboard Country Airplay for Keith Urban.
  13. ↑ "Keith Urban – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Keith Urban.
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