In the second verse, Keith Urban recounts how he got a lot of negative comments when he was trying to get his break into the music community. "I had plenty of those people in my life that didn't believe in me, thought I was wasting my time," he said. "And I probably found that fuel for my fire even more than the people who believed in me. It was sort of the motivation for proving them wrong was great motivation."

Urban recalled one incident in his early 20s when he returned home to Australia after writing some songs in Nashville. One day he was playing at a country music festival and an older artist asked him backstage where he'd been. Urban told him he'd been in Nashville writing songs, to which the guy condescendingly responded: "Yeah, yeah, you've got to get it out of your system, don't ya?"

Urban was furious at the older country artist's jaded comment, but now he's grateful, as it gave him motivation to keep pursuing his dream. "That verse is kind of somewhat of a thank you to the people who say you can't do it," Urban said, "because they give me, people like me a lot of fuel.

Keith Urban took the stage at the 2021 CMA Awards for a rollicking performance of this song. Before delivering the uptempo tune, he dedicated it to all the "born-to-be rock stars" and all the dreamers.

"Wild Hearts" came together as fast as any song Urban has done. Brad Tursi, Jennifer Wayne and Eric Paslay sent him the track in early May 2021, and the singer rewrote the lyrics over the next couple of weeks. Once he was happy with his revamp, Urban went into his studio and put down a vocal, then built out the demo adding guitars. The following week, he sent the completed song to his manager, who loved it and suggested he put it out straight away. Urban released "Wild Hearts" on August 19, 2021.

As of March 14th, this song was Number 16 on the Kix Brooks Countdown .....up from 17 last week.