Country music superstar Jason Aldean has just released the music video for "Tattoos on This Town," the fourth single to come off the 34-year-old Georgia native's fourth studio album, "My Kinda Party." Lyrically, the song is pretty standard for the country genre: Drag-racing pickup trucks, rope swings, scars - "real life stuff" Aldean tells us. The song is just alright, but its new accompanying video is downright beautiful and really enhances the track. It takes you on a heartbreaking journey of young love, pregnancy, war, and certainly leaves a lasting impression, tugging at the heartstrings with an unexpected, emotional twist.The up-tempo soft country rock song is a nostalgic look at small-town life and love, in which a man expresses his desires of leaving something behind on his small town to let others know he and his girlfriend were here. The inspiration behind the lyrics came from simply reminiscing on younger years and faded memories left in one's mind. Comparing the song to many of his previous hits, this song runs parallel to our own tales of mischief, lost innocence and heartache.
Aldean told The Boot the song calls to mind his adolescence, when he had few cares or responsibilities. He said: "You're just out having fun, growing up wherever you grew up and doing all these things that helped shape you as an adult" However, you don't realize that your teenage years are going to be some of the best times of your life. "Then you get older," he said. "and look back and remember those times and what it's all about."
The Wes Edwards-directed clip portrays a young couple's love story, starting from their teenage years, fast-forwarding through marriage and settling down, all the way to the young man's leaving for war. Some time later, his wife is paid a visit by two Marines who inform her about the death of her husband. It then fast-forwards through the young widow's life, in which she attends her husband's funeral and also gives birth to a son. As the video ends, the son, now a young boy wearing his late father's old cap, throws a stone into the lake near the tree where his parents had carved "I Love You" many years before.
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