{"id":1306630,"date":"2019-03-23T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1804250"},"modified":"2019-03-23T07:00:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T13:00:53","slug":"essential-brett-eldredge-music-videos-that-highlight-his-dramatic-chops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/essential-brett-eldredge-music-videos-that-highlight-his-dramatic-chops\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Brett Eldredge Music Videos That Highlight His Dramatic Chops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:670383?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/morrise\/\" title=\"Posts by Edward Morris\" rel=\"author\">Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">22m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I make no claim to prescience, but I knew I\u2019d glimpsed something magnetic in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/brett-eldredge\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Brett Eldredge<\/a> when I saw his first music video, \u201cRaymond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was nearly nine years ago, and this is what I said back then in my CMT.com chart column about the video\u2019s underlying song:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sentimentalists among us have been keeping our eyes on Brett Eldredge\u2019s \u201cRaymond,\u201d a song that describes the touching relationship between a maintenance worker at a nursing home and an Alzheimer-afflicted patient there. This week it moves from No. 40 to No. 37.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alas, the single peaked at No. 23. But its video version established Eldredge \u2014 who turns 33 today \u2014 as one of country music\u2019s most visually engaging performers. With his tall, rangy physique and eyes brimming with a mixture of curiosity and mischief, he completely inhabits the roles the songs\/scripts assign him.<\/p>\n<p>Here are five of Eldredge\u2019s most memorable video ventures:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"listicle-container\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">\u201cRaymond\u201d (2010, directed by Sean Silva)<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>If you can watch this one without shedding a tear, you\u2019re a candidate for emotional rehab. It shows Eldredge in his drab work clothes polishing the floor and singing to the nursing home residents. But between chores, he\u2019s bringing coffee, playing cards and listening to stories by a special old lady, who, thinking him her dead son, calls him \u201cRaymond.\u201d Scenes of the two interacting look as authentic as a documentary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">\u201cMean to Me\u201d (2013, Shane Drake)<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>From emerging from a shower to alighting from a limousine, the focus here is on Eldredge\u2019s face (and briefly on his torso) as he muses about his beloved\u2019s many charms. Close-ups tell the story, which is conveyed in black and white with night-time Chicago as a background. It looks like the cool, sophisticated intro to an old Hollywood classic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">\u201cLose My Mind\u201d (2014, Joel Robertson)<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>By now, some of you are saying, \u201cSure Brett Eldredge is solid in straight dramatic roles, but can he play a crazed sex addict?\u201d Why, yes he can. Neither feminists nor mental health advocates will find much to applaud in this one. But for those of us who like a good 1960\u2019s style romp that\u2019s completely devoid of political correctness, \u201cLose My Mind\u201d nicely fills the bill. In the crucial scenes, a wild-eyed Eldredge, clad in a straitjacket, leers at a \u201cnurse\u201d who really knows how to walk away from the camera. Need I say more?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">\u201cSomethin\u2019 I\u2019m Good At\u201d (2017, Ethan Lader)<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>What we have here is not exactly cerebral comedy, but it\u2019s an evolutionary notch above Eldredge\u2019s character in \u201cLose My Mind.\u201d Now a sharp-dressed man, Eldredge plays a guy who\u2019s so oblivious to his surroundings that he leaves carnage in his wake as he strides down the street swinging his brief case like a wrecking ball. With his malleable face and dancer\u2019s grace, he is dumb joy personified\u2014and he will, as the song promises, make you smile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">\u201cLove Someone\u201d (2018, Michael Monaco)<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>There are two video incarnations of this song, one called the \u201cEdgar cut,\u201d which features Eldridge\u2019s dog as his love interest, and the other \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qIGjNF1C4pw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">official version<\/a>\u201d in which he prances the stage like an evangelist of Eros, preaching the gospel of love. It\u2019s the Edgar take that unleashes Eldredge\u2019s goofy sense of humor as the two pals share a candlelit dinner, go motorcycle riding and jointly howl at the moon. As of this writing, the Edgar cut has netted over 6 million YouTube views, while the official edition has pulled in just under 2 million. This tells us something about where Eldredge\u2019s greatest appeal lies. Or maybe it\u2019s the dog.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1804250\/essential-brett-eldredge-music-videos-that-highlight-his-dramatic-chops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 22m ago I make no claim to prescience, but I knew I\u2019d glimpsed something magnetic in Brett Eldredge when I saw his first music video, \u201cRaymond.\u201d That was nearly nine years ago, and this is what I said back then in my CMT.com chart column about the video\u2019s underlying song: \u201cThe sentimentalists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1306630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 23:54:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}