Little Big Town embraces sadness with a brand-new video for their unusually subtle power ballad, "Your Side Of The Bed," the third single from group's fifth studio album, "Tornado." The unabashedly sad new song that's about just what the title implies–that feeling when partners in a romantic relationship drift apart. Little Big Town's compelling new ballad boasts all the ingredients of a country classic, sizzles with emotional tension, and deliver performances that capture the loneliness and angst of a couple wrestling with the growing distance in their relationship.
The Little Big Town quartet share co-writing credits with Lori McKenna on this yearning Country ballad, which performed in duet form between married lead vocals from Karen Fairchild and Jimi Westbrook. "I love that this lyric is so brutally honest," said Fairchild. "There are times in a relationship when you allow things to come between you, so much so that it feels like an incredibly long way back to each other. It's a lonely place to be especially when you're lying right next to someone you love."
The emphatic ballad strikes a pitch that resonates deep within any couple that's been married long enough to outrun the honeymoon period. It's almost uncomfortably familiar. The soft acoustic and haunting electric guitar intro mirrors the atmosphere of a bedroom weighted down by discontent. It's the chorus that announces the volume of thoughts sealed by pursed lips. The couple shares lead on the emotional track, their personal connection only adding to an already intimate performance. Perhaps the only flaw is that "Your Side of the Bed" will strike too deep with some fans, making it difficult to finish. The song details classic country lonesomeness with lines like, "Are you sleeping with your own regret on your side of the bed?"
The heart wrenching video for the song was shot last month by Becky Fluke and takes place at the historic Tennessee Theater and The Oliver Hotel in Knoxville, Tennessee and captures a look into one night, highlighting the tension and honesty in the song's lyrics. Like the song, the video is painfully familiar to anyone whose marriage has gone through a period of distance and discontent. It is a fictional look inside the marriage and its plot focuses on the two in their real-life roles as co-performers who are also together in life, playing on their onstage chemistry and contrasting that with the uncomfortable, awkward silence when they're off it.
The Little Big Town quartet share co-writing credits with Lori McKenna on this yearning Country ballad, which performed in duet form between married lead vocals from Karen Fairchild and Jimi Westbrook. "I love that this lyric is so brutally honest," said Fairchild. "There are times in a relationship when you allow things to come between you, so much so that it feels like an incredibly long way back to each other. It's a lonely place to be especially when you're lying right next to someone you love."
The emphatic ballad strikes a pitch that resonates deep within any couple that's been married long enough to outrun the honeymoon period. It's almost uncomfortably familiar. The soft acoustic and haunting electric guitar intro mirrors the atmosphere of a bedroom weighted down by discontent. It's the chorus that announces the volume of thoughts sealed by pursed lips. The couple shares lead on the emotional track, their personal connection only adding to an already intimate performance. Perhaps the only flaw is that "Your Side of the Bed" will strike too deep with some fans, making it difficult to finish. The song details classic country lonesomeness with lines like, "Are you sleeping with your own regret on your side of the bed?"
The heart wrenching video for the song was shot last month by Becky Fluke and takes place at the historic Tennessee Theater and The Oliver Hotel in Knoxville, Tennessee and captures a look into one night, highlighting the tension and honesty in the song's lyrics. Like the song, the video is painfully familiar to anyone whose marriage has gone through a period of distance and discontent. It is a fictional look inside the marriage and its plot focuses on the two in their real-life roles as co-performers who are also together in life, playing on their onstage chemistry and contrasting that with the uncomfortable, awkward silence when they're off it.
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