Earlier this summer, singer-songwriter Tyler Childers unveiled his new album with an emotional music video for his single “In Your Love,” which told the love story of a pair of gay coal miners in 1950s Appalachia.
In the two months since, the singer-songwriter, 32, says he’s received a number of responses from people moved by the video – and while he’s had to wade through some “really ugly comments”, most have been “overwhelmingly more positive than negative.”
“[I’ve heard from] people [who] they never actually saw each other in the music that surrounded them all the time,” he said A bitter southerner in a new interview. “This is the first time they felt seen.”
Colton Haynes and ‘You’ star James Scully star as ill-fated lovers in Tyler Childers’ emotional new music video
Childers also noted that the release stories that fans have shared with him are especially meaningful.
“To be that encouragement that someone needs to take a step further to self-actualization — that’s the power of music, and I’m really honored that that whole piece resonated like that,” he said.
The music video stars Colton Haynes and Your star James Scully as miners who fall in love on the job. In a flashback, viewers watch as their characters go to secret meetings in the woods, where they pick four-leaf clovers.
When a fellow miner exposes them as a couple and attacks them for it, they leave town, building a happy life together filled with evening parties and intimate moments. Although their farm is thriving, Scully’s character – who is battling a cough – contracts black lung, and their happiness is cut short forever as he dies in Haynes’ arms on a porch bench.
The video ends with Haynes, now an old man, sitting on the same bench holding a four-leaf clover. The actor called the video “one of my favorite projects I’ve ever been a part of” on Instagram.
Childers told the outlet that his cousin, who is gay, inspired the music video because the “Feathered Indians” singer wanted him to be able to see himself in a country music video.
The video was written and creatively directed by current Kentucky Award-winning poet Silas House, who also wrote A bitter southerner article on Childers.
The Grammy-nominated musician is no stranger to discussing social issues through music; In 2020, he released mostly instrumentals A long violent historywith the title track protesting police brutality against black men and women.
“Because I’m vocal in the little ways that I have, it might lead some of those people who are sitting on the fence to question exactly how they should feel about it … it might nudge them in the direction of realizing that maybe the people around them and how they think is not all there is,” he told the newspaper. “Pleasing or pandering to people I don’t necessarily agree with, politically or philosophically… that’s never really driven me as an artist.”
The star has released a new album Rustin’ in the Rain earlier this month.
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