Eric Church has broken through as one of country music's top stars, particularly on the live circuit where he continues to sell-out shows across the nation, has released the brand new video for his love song "Springsteen," as the eleventh single of his career, and the third from his Grammy-nominated third studio album, "Chief," and the track has a definitive southern rock influence, and creates a feeling with a hard-to-forget melody and razor sharp imagery in the lyrics brings Church to an accessibility that he's previously never had."The interesting part is it's a love affair that takes place in an amphitheater between two people," Church stated in an interview that the song isn't actually about Bruce Springsteen. "It didn't happen with Springsteen, ironically, it happened with another artist. I went to a concert when I was younger with a girl, and to this day when I hear that artist, it's the soundtrack to that girl. I never think about her any other time, except when that song is on. That's where the 'Springsteen' came from, and he seemed to be the perfect guy to craft that story around because of my love for him. I have such a reverence for Bruce Springsteen's career and how he's built it."
"Springsteen" is every bit as semi-melancholy as it is a fond glimpse back at the past, with a gravity of shimmering sadness driving its production that is most closely tied to the Boss's 1987 tortured-heart testimonial "Tunnel of Love." Steered by a drum machine, and besprinkled with misty-eyed synthesizers and chatoyant glints of keyboard, "Springsteen" is without question far-removed from decidedly country soundscapes, and it's actually a gorgeous, bittersweet anthem-to-be that will likely leave even some more hardened hearts simultaneously smile and cry listening.
The 35-year-old said that the video and song felt very personal to him. The video was directed by Peter Zavadil and was actually shot in a Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. It shows the more dramatic, contemplative side of the singer. The video shows Church without his signature shades walking in suburbia as scenes of a young couple's defining, mix-tape-worthy moments flash by. In the second half, the shades are back on as Church and his band play in a garage, for all the neighborhood to see.
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