{"id":1302525,"date":"2019-01-17T09:38:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T16:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1802312"},"modified":"2019-01-17T09:38:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T16:38:16","slug":"old-dominion-on-filming-above-the-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/old-dominion-on-filming-above-the-fog\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Dominion on Filming Above the Fog"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 3m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

Late last year, a couple weeks before the Charlie Fire and then the Woolsey Fire homed in on Malibu, Old Dominion<\/a> chose the picturesque bluffs of the Pacific Coast city for the setting of their \u201cMake It Sweet\u201d video.<\/p>\n

And in the latest issue of ACM Tempo<\/em> magazine, the band\u2019s frontman Matthew Ramsey talked about the September video shoot, how much it meant to the band, and how the fog was more friend than foe that day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat day was actually one of the best days that we\u2019ve ever had as a band,\u201d Ramsey said. \u201cIt was just so beautiful. We had all this fog that came in and was basically ruining the video shoot.<\/p>\n

\u201cShaun Silva, the director, was texting his wife like, \u2019I\u2019m screwed.\u2019 You literally could not see 10 feet in front of you for most of the day, and then by the time we got to that shot on the bluff, it had receded and actually turned out better than we could\u2019ve ever planned.\u201d (Just like the song says, they literally made a little lemonade when lemons was all they got.)<\/p>\n

At one point during the shoot, Silva sent Ramsey down to stand on the edge of a cliff and sing, he said, which isn\u2019t what he was used to.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsually when you do a video, you do kind of a play back and you lip sync,\u201d he said, \u201cbut it was too far away to have that. He said, \u2019Take your guitar down there, stand there and sing.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI was singing that song, and it was so beautiful and so emotional for me. I literally started crying while I was singing the song looking out at this beautiful view and thinking about where our music is taking us.\u201d When Ramsey is singing, Open sky, glimpse of heaven, take the top off the CJ-7, let that surfside Santa Ana wind mess up your hair, and let that windshield frame the ocean,<\/em> you can almost feel that fog at his feet and see those tears in his eyes.<\/p>\n

The guys who make up the reigning ACM vocal group of the year \u2014 Ramsey, Trevor Rosen, Whit Sellers, Geoff Sprung and Brad Tursi \u2014 wrote the song with Shane McAnally.<\/p>\n

Rosen shared his perspective on the video, too, saying that he likes how it shows the band\u2019s lighter side. \u201cWe take our music and we take our career seriously, but in the end, we don\u2019t take ourselves too seriously. We\u2019re just five goofballs that are regular guys that have been lucky enough to make it,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, anytime we can show a lighter side I think we enjoy doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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