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It’s the star power for me.
The duet you never knew you needed is here. Luke Evans and Nicole Kidman have teamed up for a cover of Christina Aguilera’s “Say Something” for the former’s upcoming album A Song For You, and it’s honestly beautiful.
The two first met while they were working together on the Hulu miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers. During a dinner together after filmng wrapped, their burgeoning duet was born. “When we wrapped the show, we had dinner one night in Nicole and Keith’s [Urban] house in Sydney. After dinner, Nicole was like: ‘Right, you’re singing, Keith’s gonna play the piano. He’ll play anything, just tell him the song,’” Evans shared in a press release. “So everybody came around the grand piano in their living room and I sang Adele’s ‘Make You Feel My Love.’ I knew that Nicole loved to sing, so she was joining in.”
Later, when he realized he wanted to do a duet recording of “Say Something,” Evans remembered that night with Kidman and knew she was the one he wanted to sing it with.
“I already had that song in my head, because I knew that it would fit Nicole’s voice very well, that I could blend our voices. So I sent them the track, and Keith [Urban] was like, ‘Genius – I couldn’t have thought of a better track,’” recalled Evans. “[He] sent me a little video of her in the booth recording. And she loved every minute of it. She was so grateful that I’d asked her. I was, like, ‘Grateful? You have no idea how grateful I am!’ But she’s a lovely woman, and a friend, and very generous with their time. To do something like this was really special.”
Listen to Evans and Kidman sing “Say Something” below.
A Song For You is set for release November 4.
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Rachel Shatto, Editor in Chief of PRIDE.com, is an SF Bay Area-based writer, podcaster, and former editor of Curve magazine, where she honed her passion for writing about social justice and sex (and their frequent intersection). Her work has appeared on Dread Central, Elite Daily, Tecca, and Joystiq. She's a GALECA member and she podcasts regularly about horror on the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network. She can’t live without cats, vintage style, video games, drag queens, or the Oxford comma.
Rachel Shatto, Editor in Chief of PRIDE.com, is an SF Bay Area-based writer, podcaster, and former editor of Curve magazine, where she honed her passion for writing about social justice and sex (and their frequent intersection). Her work has appeared on Dread Central, Elite Daily, Tecca, and Joystiq. She's a GALECA member and she podcasts regularly about horror on the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network. She can’t live without cats, vintage style, video games, drag queens, or the Oxford comma.
