CURRENT SINGLE: “Lady”
Brett Young wrote his latest single, “Lady,” for his baby girl, Presley, about her mom and his wife, Taylor. If you’ve seen the video for “Lady,” then you know it features Presley and Taylor in these beautiful cinematic shots at a beach house and out at the beach. It turns out Brett owes his buddy who filmed it, a huge debt of gratitude. “We were staying at that house in Palm Desert, quarantining. At the time, Riverside County, it was a $1000 fine if you walked out your front door without a mask on. Everything was very tight, and we knew we needed a video. And so, my buddy Seth Coopersmith – who did the ‘Catch’ video and the ‘Mercy’ video – I said, ‘Seth, this is gonna sound ridiculous, but you’re coming from Oregon. I can’t have you on a flight. I need you to drive, so it’s gonna be 17 hours, and I need you to shoot it all by yourself.”
Some people might have said, “pass,” but Brett says without hesitation, Seth “got in the car and drove down and he shot (the video) with one camera and a drone. And it’s one of the most special things. Obviously cinematically, he would [have] loved to have had a 20-person crew with a bunch of cameras at all times.”
But the “Lady” video, featuring his family, is absolutely gorgeous, and Brett says, “it’s like a home video on steroids. Nobody will ever have home movies like that. And so, it’s really special.”
Even though it seems pretty cool to have an actual music video as one of your home movies, Brett says, “It’s something she’s gonna look back on later in her life and be like – as much as she’ll probably be like, ‘Guys, that’s embarrassing. Why’d you do that?’ She’ll also love that she has that.”
Brett Young – Lady video :52
“We were staying at that house in Palm Desert, quarantining. At the time, Riverside County, it was a $1000 fine if you walked out your front door without a mask on. Everything was very tight, and we knew we needed a video. And so, my buddy Seth Coopersmith – who did the ‘Catch’ video and the ‘Mercy’ video – I said, ‘Seth, this is gonna sound ridiculous, but you’re coming from Oregon. I can’t have you on a flight. I need you to drive, so it’s gonna be 17 hours, and I need you to shoot it all by yourself. And he got in the car and drove down and he shot it with one camera and a drone. And it’s one of the most special things. Obviously cinematically, he would loved to have had a 20-person crew with a bunch of cameras at all times. But it’s like a home video on steroids. Nobody will ever have home movies like that. And so, it’s really special. It’s something we’ll never forget. And like the song itself, it’s something she’s gonna look back on later in her life and be like – as much as she’ll probably be like, ‘Guys, that’s embarrassing. Why’d you do that?’ She’ll also love that she has that.”