{"id":1307459,"date":"2019-03-30T11:49:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T17:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1804553"},"modified":"2019-03-30T11:49:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T17:49:02","slug":"revisiting-the-videos-behind-justin-moores-no-1-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/revisiting-the-videos-behind-justin-moores-no-1-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting the Videos Behind Justin Moore\u2019s No. 1 Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:649750?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\">21m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As he contemplates his 35th birthday today (March 30), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/justin-moore\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Moore<\/a> can take comfort in having seen six of his 15 singles go No. 1 on the Billboard charts.<\/p>\n<p>Like Montgomery Gentry and Jason Aldean, Moore focuses much of his music on praising and defending small towns and the regular folks who inhabit them. Not surprisingly, this point of view is sometimes accompanied by a tough-guy, chip-on-the-shoulder attitude, as in, for example, \u201cI Could Kick Your Ass\u201d and \u201cIf You Don\u2019t Like My Twang.\u201d So don\u2019t look to Moore for crooning and sensitive love ballads.<\/p>\n<p>But the videos he acts in tend to moderate\u2013as well as elaborate\u2013the thrust of his lyrics, sometimes with pathos, sometimes with humor. The following six videos helped propel Moore\u2019s singles to the top:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"listicle-container\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">\u201cSmall Town USA\u201d (2009, directed by Chris Hicky)<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>High football games, body shops, dirt roads, church and fishing holes are about all this small town has to recommend it. \u201cA lot of people called it prison when I was growing up,\u201d Moore sings and then adds, \u201c\u2019Round here we break our backs just to earn a buck \/ We never get ahead, but we have enough.\u201d So what\u2019s the big attraction? Check out that babe in the pickup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">\u201cIf Heaven Wasn\u2019t So Far Away\u201d (2011, Peter Zavadil)<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>This is nostalgia on a grand scale as the singer daydreams of reuniting with his dead grandfather and asking \u201cHank [Williams] why he took those pills back in \u201953.\u201d The song reaches its emotional peak when, in the video, his grandpa materializes in the truck seat beside him.\u201d A revealing glimpse of Moore\u2019s softer side.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">\u201c\u2019Til My Last Day\u201d (2012, Peter Zavadil)<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>Here Moore is simply the singing onlooker at a domestic drama in which the wife feels neglected \u2014 and apparently with good reason \u2014 until her husband blindfolds her and takes her to the incarnation of his love and devotion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">\u201cLettin\u2019 the Night Roll\u201d (2013, Peter Zavadil)<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>OK, back to the rowdy troubadour. Starting with a drag race between him and a small-town lovely (and the police chase that follows), Moore is determined to wring as much pleasure out of the evening as he can \u2014 \u201cIf there\u2019s a good time in this town, girl, we\u2019re gonna find it.\u201d Nothing planned, but ecstasy expected. \u201cJust lettin\u2019 the night roll,\u201d he wails, \u201cand I can\u2019t wait to see where it goes.\u201d While the cops search for the flirtatious miscreants, the lady slips into something more sporty and, in the final scene, flashes her pom poms. It appears he\u2019s found his good time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">\u201cYou Look Like I Need a Drink\u201d (2016, Shane Drake)<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>Apart from its witty title, this song is pretty somber, since it\u2019s about a guy anticipating getting dumped. But the video transforms this simple plot line into a burlesque western movie, with Moore, clad in a cowboy hat and duster clip-clopping into town and confronting his soon-to-be-ex in a saloon showdown. To fortify himself against his impending loss, he tosses down shots of various stimulants \u2014 milk, tomato juice and, finally, a green smoothie. It gets pretty messy after that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">\u201cSomebody Else Will\u201d (2017, Shane Drake)<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>Nothing small town in this dance of seduction \u2014 and not pickup truck in sight. With storm scenes at the beginning and end and subdued lighting throughout, the video conveys a kind of Shakespearean inevitability. The girl is so alluring that fate has determined somebody will come on to her and take her home. Moore is simply the commentator as the insanely attractive couple perform their mating ritual.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Moore\u2019s newest single, \u201cThe Ones That Didn\u2019t Make It Back Home\u201d (Cody Villalobos) is still climbing the charts, boosted by a video that honors the deaths of soldiers in battle, cops and fireman on duty and victims of school shootings.<\/p>\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\/1804553\/revisiting-the-videos-behind-justin-moores-no-1-hits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 21m ago As he contemplates his 35th birthday today (March 30), Justin Moore can take comfort in having seen six of his 15 singles go No. 1 on the Billboard charts. Like Montgomery Gentry and Jason Aldean, Moore focuses much of his music on praising and defending small towns and the regular [&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-1307459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 01:42:07","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\/1307459","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=1307459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}