Rising nation duo After Midtown are absorbing {the summertime} season on their proud and rowdy nation anthem, “Down Like That,” and Style of Nation has the unique premiere of its spirited music video.
The uptempo observe, dropping Friday (Sept. 9), is a jaunty, good-time quantity that celebrates reveling within the nation life-style.
“I’m talkin’ like a tailgate / If you’re by a riverbank / Like the way in which a bobber sinks / With one on the road / Talkin’ like a longneck bottle / When the beer hits the underside / Just like the solar begins fallin’ at 5,” the pair’s Adam Ernst and Michael Rotundo sing within the euphoric, high-energy refrain.
“Little little bit of that good time / What we’ve been missin’ / Appears like time / For us to get it again / So pull up toting / One thing you possibly can twist open / Trigger it’s happening Like That,” they proceed over thumping drumbeats and electrifying bass strains.
Sonically, it boasts vibrant trendy nation parts that harken again to the early sounds of Florida Georgia Line, which can come as no shock since FGL’s very personal Tyler Hubbard co-wrote the hit-ready observe with Ernst and Rotundo.
“Writing with Tyler was a dream!” Rotundo shares cheerily. “We wrote this music throughout quarantine at our supervisor’s rental in L.A. Adam had a guitar riff concept that we saved as a result of we knew Tyler would like it, and it gave the impression of a celebration! We’ve all the time been big followers of Florida Georgia Line, so it was actually a surreal second for us. He’s been round so many hit songs for thus lengthy, and his expertise displays that.”
With the music’s vividly-painted and nation tropes-heavy lyrics, it was straightforward for After Midtown to show it right into a music video. When the considered filming a music video hit them, they have been already out at an off-road park in Northern Michigan, which made for the proper location shoot. So the following day, this spur-of-the-moment choice was dropped at life with the assistance of their videographer who, like them, beamed with pleasure concerning the concept.
“The park was excellent, stuffed with a bunch of beer-drinking nation followers searching for time, identical to us. The house owners have been gracious sufficient to accommodate us making the video, and inspired individuals to affix in on the enjoyable,” the pair share.
“What we ended up with was precisely what we had envisioned: a video filmed within the sticks, doing a little nation a– s–t, and slinging some dust. We performed the present that evening nonetheless lined in mud, and it was a blast!”
With the “Down Like That” arriving on the tail finish of summertime, After Midtown hope that the anthemic observe invitations followers to relish each little bit of the summer time vitality earlier than it’s over.
“Our hope is that followers love this feel-good music and that it evokes them to dwell up the final little bit of summer time like they’re working out of time. We pray that that is a type of songs that makes you need to seize some buddies, roll the home windows down, and discover some bother to get into.”
