Keith Urban Offers Up Bold Opinion About Miley Cyrus

Keith Urban shared a bold opinion about Miley Cyrus as a performer during a recent interview, and even he realized that the comment may not have come across as intended.

While speaking with the hosts of the Australian radio podcast Fitzy and Wippa with Kate Ritchie, the "Blue Ain't Your Color" crooner admitted how much he loves the Disney alum's voice before making a strange pair of comparisons about her famously gravelly timbre.

"I've always loved Miley. I love that voice, man, that voice," the 56-year-old gushed after covering one of her latest tracks, "Flowers," on the show — a song he's also broken out on tour before, and which is "a little high" for him despite the 31-year-old's tendency to perform in a lower register.

"She sounds like an ashtray," he continued, quickly clarifying that he "mean[s] that as a compliment" before offering another simile for her vocals: "She sounds like the carpet at the RSL! I love it!”

Fans love to see Urban taking on pop songs, with Swifties recently losing their minds over his cover of Taylor Swift's "Anti-Hero." He also recently offered a bold — and seemingly final — opinion of Swift as a songwriter.

During his interview, Urban tried his hand at Dasha's "Austin,"—though he didn't know most of the words—Post Malone and Morgan Wallen's "I Had Some Help," and Chappell Roan's "Good Luck Babe," many of which he was impressively figuring out the chords and strumming patterns for in real-time.

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