Tyler Childers’ Bold Music Video Celebrates Love: The Untold Story of Two Coalminers in the 1950s!
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Tyler Childers, a country musician, has gone viral with his new music video for his song In Your Love, which shows a wonderful love story between two male coal miners in the 1950s. Fans of the musician have defended him and the video in the face of homophobic remarks on Twitter and former fans who have stated that they will no longer support Tyler as a result of his video featuring a gay romance. The two men fall in love and suffer unwelcome responses from their fellow coal miners in the video, that’s a little under five minutes long. The film, directed by Bryan Schlam and written by Kentucky Poet Laureate, Silas House, stars Colton Haynes and James Scully as the couple at the centre of the video, Jasper and Matthew.
In the end, their love triumphs, and they relocate to a country farm to begin a new life together. Tyler said in a recent interview that the inspiration for the In Your Love music video came from the fact that his cousin, who is like his big brother, is gay. As the musician says, “he graduated from Northern Kentucky, transferred to Chicago, and never came back.” ” My first tough critic, he taught me so much about singing,” Tyler continued. Thus, he created the video after thinking about how his cousin “didn’t have a music video on CMT that spoke to him ”. While many fans applauded the film and the story it depicts, others on Twitter chastised Tyler for making a music video depicting a gay romance.
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Country Musician Tyler Childers Has Gone Viral With His New Music Video For His Song ‘In Your Love’
Tyler Childers responds with the emotional, cinematic video for his new song “In Your Love.” The video, set in 1950s Appalachia, follows the passion of two male coalminers, a love that not even death can put out. The film, which is just under five minutes long, has the potential to emotionally ruin you as you witness the men fall in love, deal with the angry reactions of their coworkers, and eventually establish a new life together on a country farm. That’s thanks to Silas House, Kentucky’s Poet Laureate, who penned the treatment based on an idea he had with his spouse, Jason Kyle Howard. A statement from House regarding the video, created by Bryan Schlam & starring Colton Haynes & James Scully, echoes many people’s yearning for representation in country music. “I could never have imagined seeing myself in a video as a gay teenager who adored country music.” “That visibility is important,” House added. “Tyler and I both felt that paying attention to detail about rural life was critical, so we made sure that the house and the occupants appeared realistic for the time period rather than the clichés of country people that have been so established in the public awareness… We intended to tell as intricate a story about a gay couple and rural folks in four minutes as possible.
We wanted to depict their joy and sorrow—everything that makes up a complicated life. Too frequently, oversimplified ideas about rural and LGBTQ people are promoted, so we tried everything we could to make this narrative as complex and layered as possible.” Tyler said in a recent interview that the inspiration for the In Your Love music video came from the fact that his cousin, who is like his big brother, is gay. Tyler explained that the musician graduated from Northern Kentucky, went to Chicago, and never returned. He taught him many things about singing; he was his first tough critic. He decided to make the video after reflecting on his cousin’s “lack of a music video on CMT that spoke to him.” While many fans applauded the film and the story it depicts, others on Twitter chastised Tyler for making a music video depicting a gay romance. Childers is presently on tour and will perform two sold-out gigs at New York’s Radio City Music Hall on August 2 and 3. He also scheduled two New Year’s Eve gigs in his native state of Kentucky (December 30 and 31) at Lexington’s Rupp Arena.
Man, that Tyler Childers music video is more emotional that The Notebook and it’s only 4 minutes and 45 seconds long
— mike (@endpopcountry) July 28, 2023
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