"Kiss a Girl" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by Australian country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer Keith Urban

Keith Urban

Keith Lionel Urban is a New Zealand-born Australian, country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States and Australia. Urban was born in New Zealand and began his career in Australia at an early age...

. The song is the second single from his fifth studio album, Defying Gravity

Defying Gravity (Keith Urban album)

Defying Gravity is the title of the fifth studio album by Australian country music artist Keith Urban. It was released on 31 March 2009 on Capitol Records. The album's lead-off single is "Sweet Thing", which topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in March 2009. "Kiss a Girl" was released on...

. It was released digitally on 10 March 2009, and it made its debut on the Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 charts at #29. The song peaked at #16 on the Hot 100, making it his highest peak on the chart and only Top 20 to date.

The song was performed live by Urban and eventual "Idol" winner Kris Allen

Kris Allen

Kristopher Neil "Kris" Allen is an American musician and singer-songwriter from Conway, Arkansas, and the winner of the eighth season of American Idol...

 during the finale

Season finale

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 of eighth season of American Idol

American Idol (season 8)

The eighth season of American Idol premiered on January 13, 2009, and concluded on May 20, 2009. Judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson continued to judge the show's contestants, along with Ryan Seacrest as host. The season introduced Kara DioGuardi as the fourth judge on the Idol...

 on 20 May 2009.

The song is part of the tracklist for Now That's What I Call Country Volume 2

Now That's What I Call Country Volume 2

Now That's What I Call Country Volume 2 is the second country music compilation album from the Now! series, released on August 25, 2009....

.

Content

"Kiss a Girl" is a moderate up-tempo rock music song in which the male narrator expresses a desire to fall in love with a female.

The song features accompaniment from electric guitar

Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

 and ganjo, both played by Urban.

Critical reception

Thom Jurek of Allmusic cited "Kiss a Girl" as a standout track on the album, calling it a "tight little rocker". He said that it and "Sweet Thing", the album's first single, "are 21st century equivalents of rock & roll love songs." Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine

Slant Magazine

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described the song unfavorably, saying that it was a retread of his previous single "Sweet Thing

Sweet Thing (Keith Urban song)

"Sweet Thing" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by Australian country music singer Keith Urban. The song is the first single from his 5th studio album, Defying Gravity. It was released to country radio on 3 November 2008, and it made its debut on the Hot Country Songs charts at #30,...

", which itself was described as a retread of Urban's earlier material.

Music video

Both a finalized and a promotional music video for "Kiss a Girl" are available for view at cmt.com, both directed by Chris Hicky.

Promotional Video

The promotional video for the song premiered first in April 2009 on cmt.com. It consists of Urban and his band performing in front of a green screen. Some of these scenes were later edited and included the TV video.

Official Video

The official video was found on iTunes

ITunes

iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

 on 25 May 2009. It consists of Urban and the band performing in an animated city. Also included is two people who eventually find each other and fall in love. At the end, the ferris wheel they ride displays "KISS" on each car, a reference to the song title.

Top Twenty Countdown

The video debuted on CMT's Top Twenty Countdown

Top Twenty Countdown

Top 20 Countdown is a show on CMT.The show counts down the biggest videos in country music and was originally hosted by Lance Smith. Top Twenty Countdown airs every Friday at 11:00 a.m. and reruns on Saturday at 11 a.m. and Sunday at 11:30 a.m. Besides showing the biggest videos, Lance also shows...

at #11 for the week of 5 June 2009, and has peaked at #2.

Chart performance

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Chart (2009–2010)	Peak position