Luke Bryan and Katy Perry have a fairly close working relationship. In fact, the two musical artists have taken to bantering with each other as judges on the set of american idolwhich also stars fellow judge Lionel Richie.
But when Perry decided to get into the country genre, his first duet on a song happened to be with Thomas Rhetmeaning Bryan wasn’t top of the list.
Taking to the red carpet ahead of the 56th Annual CMA Awards, Bryan opened up about the Perry/Rhett “Where We Started” collaboration, sharing how he felt when he found out his good pal Perry would be singing with his other pal. Rhett.
“You know, my feelings were hurt,” Bryan said. entertainment tonightIt’s Rachel Smith. “You know, Katy, I told her today, you know, she just chose a younger version [of me].”
“You know, I get it, I get it. She stays within her age bracket,” he added.
Bryan was joking, of course, about being upset about the situation. In fact, he was the first person Perry turned to when she initially got into a duet with Rhett.
“I actually asked Luke about Thomas Rhett. I walk up to Luke, and I say, ‘Luke! What do you know about that Thomas Rhett guy? Is he a good guy? Perry, who admitted she had no idea who Rhett was until she heard about a possible collaboration, once reminisced during a backstage clip for the ‘Where We Started’ music video. .
“He said, ‘That’s a good one.’ He was also jealous. He said to me, ‘I can’t believe it,’ she added.
Interestingly, Rhett didn’t initially think Perry would be up for the duet.
“I did not participate in this. My label called her and said, ‘Do you want to do a collaboration with Thomas Rhett?’ and I thought they were crazy,” Rhett previously shared. “I was like, ‘She has no idea who I am.’ They sent it to her and she loved the song.
Although strangers, the two artists ended up bonding through a shared love of being parents. Perry is mother to toddler Daisy Dove, whom she shares with fiancé Orlando Bloom, while Rhett and wife Lauren Akins are parents to daughters Willa Gray, Ada James, Lennon Love and Lillie Carolina.
“We literally talked about our kids all the time…how we raise them and what we feed them,” Rhett said. Audacityit’s Rob + Holly. “I think that’s what you do as a parent these days, you’re just like, ‘Oh, let me show you this picture on my phone of my kid you’ve never met!’ “
Perry and Rhett performed “Where We Started” at the 2022 CMA Awards, held in Nashville, Tennessee, at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday (November 9). Onstage, Perry donned a black cowgirl hat and strapless denim dress alongside Rhett, who wore a bomber jacket. The duo performed their country/pop track amid visuals for their music video, which appeared on fabric hanging from the ceiling.
Ahead of the three-hour ceremony, the new friends posed together for photos on the CMA Awards red carpet. Bryan, meanwhile, co-hosted the 2022 CMA Awards alongside former NFL football quarterback Peyton Manning.
“Where We Started,” which Rhett wrote with Ashley Gorley, Jesse Frasure and Jon Bellion, appears as the title track from his sixth studio album of the same name. On the record, Rhett also collaborates with Riley Green on “Half of Me” and Tyler Hubbard and Russell Dickerson on “Death Row.”
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