Country sensation-in-the-making Jackson Dean has shared a music video worthy of the silver screen.
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The “Don’t Come Lookin'” breakout star shared the visual for his latest single, an anthemic rerecording of his song “Fearless (The Echo),” on Monday (April 3). The clip comes fresh off of his performance at the CMT Music Awards Sunday night.
Dean turned the production of the video into a family affair, casting his brother, sister-in-law, and their young daughter as the leads.
“Interpreting ‘Fearless’ visually and putting more of a storyline to it breathes a different life into it,” Dean told CMT, who exclusively premiered the video. “Casting my brother, his wife, and their daughter in the video made it feel that much more real. If anything, I think it makes the song feel more personal to me; it just strikes a bit different—it hits much closer to home.
“I’ve had the vision of my brother being in a role like that for so long,” Dean shared of his casting choice. The video’s director Sean Hagwell made the singer’s ideas a reality, turning his ripping country-rock song into a cinematic experience.
“It was like magic watching it come to fruition,” Dean continued. “I was really moved watching it the first time. The realness of it all heightened it—seeing the genuine love between the characters mixed with the raw visuals will hit you square in the chest.
“We got fire. We got wolves. We got bullets flying,” he told the outlet, detailing the excitement that unfolds within the video set to his impassioned track. While a captivating, cinematic visual to behold, “Fearless” also has “epic moments” that Dean and his family shared behind the scenes during the filming process. Watching his brother “wave a machete around like Rambo or laughing as he runs through the forest like Jaguar Paw from Apocalypto” was one of them.
“Across the board, filming this was an incredible experience,” he shared. Check out the results below.
Jackson Dean Live at the Ryman album Cover / Courtesy of Big Machine Records
