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Post by McCreerian on Mar 26, 2016 21:31:20 GMT -5
Multiple reports all over Twitter that Carrie filmed the video for this tonight on stage in Nebraska. It looks like this song with the potential of an epic dramatic video is just going to be a live one. Bummer. She also hinted at more tour dates. KX969 @kzkx969 30m30 minutes ago Lincoln, NE @carrieunderwood is filming her video to #ChurchBells in #Lincoln?!? Are you kidding me???? Amazing! @pinnaclearena Carrie Underwood Fan @cunews4fans 23m23 minutes ago Ahh! Looks like @carrieunderwood just shot her video for Church Bells TONIGHT in Lincoln, Nebraska! Ashley Pieper @ashleypieper 29m29 minutes ago Carrie underwood just filmed her new music video at the show here in Lincoln and I'm not okay.… http://instagram.com/p/BDcGFXKKA9n Sydnee Mundhenke @smundhenke 30m30 minutes ago When #CarrieUnderwood announce more tour dates and that's she is filming her music video at tonight's show. #storytellertour #LincolnNE
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Post by carrieidol1 on Mar 26, 2016 21:40:59 GMT -5
That's such a bummer... Could have made a great video, but maybe their budgeting for an epic "Dirty Laundry" video?... I'll keep dreaming, it's fun.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Mar 26, 2016 21:53:06 GMT -5
Okay doing a live video for something like "Church Bells" completely takes all the purpose out of releasing this as a single. If they were gonna do that they should've just released something like "Renegade Runaway." Meh. This song deserves an epic music video.
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Post by #brayden on Mar 26, 2016 21:59:15 GMT -5
Wow... that's really sad. This has so much potential for a great music video.
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Post by davecrowley48 on Mar 26, 2016 23:16:34 GMT -5
Is there any chance that maybe Church Bells isnt the next single? I cant imagine that Carrie would do a live music video for that. Seems so unrealistic. While i love the song, I hope its not the video she shot tonight. Church Bells could make for a great video and not a live one.
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Post by mrossp24 on Mar 26, 2016 23:48:08 GMT -5
Man this era is a mess lol. It's hard when there's SO much potential on this album, too.
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Post by bornfearless2000 on Mar 27, 2016 3:59:33 GMT -5
Lol!!!
CB is the last song on my mind to have live concert video.
I can't.
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Post by tryexp on Mar 27, 2016 4:58:50 GMT -5
I'm not a big fan of tour videos, much less on the 3rd single, so I'm hoping they will decide against releasing one.
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Post by cufan7 on Mar 27, 2016 6:03:53 GMT -5
No. "Church Bells" needs a real video. Especially after "Heartbeat". I won't accept this.
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Post by ant on Mar 27, 2016 6:07:28 GMT -5
Wow, I'm so disappointed if that's the case. After the low budget and disappointing video for "Heartbeat", I was hoping they would put out something great for a song like this. I mean what's the point of calling the album "Storyteller" if the first 2 singles aren't even "stories", and then the singles that actually have a story to them don't get a real music video to represent that? This era is becoming quite the mess.
I guess we can still hope that there will be an actual music video, with just some shots in between of her performing it live?
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Post by bornfearless2000 on Mar 27, 2016 7:27:36 GMT -5
Wow, I'm so disappointed if that's the case. After the low budget and disappointing video for "Heartbeat", I was hoping they would put out something great for a song like this. I mean what's the point of calling the album "Storyteller" if the first 2 singles aren't even "stories", and then the singles that actually have a story to them don't get a real music video to represent that? This era is becoming quite the mess. I guess we can still hope that there will be an actual music video, with just some shots in between of her performing it live? Let's hope she will release 2 videos : the concert video first, then right when CB hit top 5 on radio, the real video to boost the rank on BB country chart.
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Post by maddkat on Mar 27, 2016 8:03:19 GMT -5
Is there any chance that maybe Church Bells isnt the next single? I cant imagine that Carrie would do a live music video for that. Seems so unrealistic. While i love the song, I hope its not the video she shot tonight. Church Bells could make for a great video and not a live one. No
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Post by draggintheriver on Mar 27, 2016 9:37:17 GMT -5
Why is everyone so bothered that CB is getting a live video treatment? It's one of my favorite tracks for Storyteller and I'm just thrilled it became a single. Undo It was a semi live music video and it turned out pretty well.
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Post by matty005 on Mar 27, 2016 9:57:33 GMT -5
Why is everyone so bothered that CB is getting a live video treatment? It's one of my favorite tracks for Storyteller and I'm just thrilled it became a single. Undo It was a semi live music video and it turned out pretty well. Because Undo It wasn't a story song that just seemed perfect for a actual real music video. It's really not that hard to understand why people are bothered by it.
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Post by fe_lipeoliveira on Mar 27, 2016 10:05:19 GMT -5
I was hoping for a "proper" music video too, but I think maybe they're going to try to promote the tour with the live video, like trying to support the idea of a successful tour, leading to EOTY nominations.
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Post by Massikur2 on Mar 27, 2016 12:19:47 GMT -5
The decision to film a live video could have had to do with a lack of time on Carrie's end. She is on a full tour right now and has responsibilities in her personal life, so this may have been the best option at this point. The song is going to be successful regardless of the music video treatment. Besides, if they do go 5+ singles deep, we're bound to see some well-crafted storytelling videos by year's end. :)
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Post by .indulgecountry on Mar 27, 2016 12:22:33 GMT -5
I just hope there's still a chance we get the live video and then they still film a real video for "Church Bells" down the line, but I'm not expecting the likelihood of that scenario happening to be too high. This one just totally needed an epic video.
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Post by musicfan134 on Mar 27, 2016 15:03:34 GMT -5
The decision to film a live video could have had to do with a lack of time on Carrie's end. She is on a full tour right now and has responsibilities in her personal life, so this may have been the best option at this point. The song is going to be successful regardless of the music video treatment. Besides, if they do go 5+ singles deep, we're bound to see some well-crafted storytelling videos by year's end. :) In that case, why go with "Church Bells" as single number three? One of the few songs that really deserves/borderline needs a decent video to make it's full impact is getting the live video treatment as opposed to something like RR, which could easily get away with a live video. I know the horse has been beaten to death by me multiple times, but at this point this era is by far and away Carrie's worst era in my eyes, even before CB was getting the live video treatment. I don't see how they can come back from this if I'm being totally honest.
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Post by Massikur2 on Mar 27, 2016 19:38:46 GMT -5
The decision to film a live video could have had to do with a lack of time on Carrie's end. She is on a full tour right now and has responsibilities in her personal life, so this may have been the best option at this point. The song is going to be successful regardless of the music video treatment. Besides, if they do go 5+ singles deep, we're bound to see some well-crafted storytelling videos by year's end. :) In that case, why go with "Church Bells" as single number three? One of the few songs that really deserves/borderline needs a decent video to make it's full impact is getting the live video treatment as opposed to something like RR, which could easily get away with a live video. I know the horse has been beaten to death by me multiple times, but at this point this era is by far and away Carrie's worst era in my eyes, even before CB was getting the live video treatment. I don't see how they can come back from this if I'm being totally honest. I don't think there's anything to "come back from" by any means. If the single was projected to perform poorly at radio, the case for a better music video could hold water, but anything released by Carrie is typically well-received and this song doesn't appear to be an exception. This is really much ado about nothing and won't hinder the song's success. She just added tour dates--clearly she's not struggling.
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Post by 43dudleyvillas on Mar 27, 2016 20:40:00 GMT -5
I know the horse has been beaten to death by me multiple times, but at this point this era is by far and away Carrie's worst era in my eyes Yes, you've also made that precise point known here, here and here in just the past six weeks, so I think that we know where you stand. I was hoping for a "proper" music video too, but I think maybe they're going to try to promote the tour with the live video, like trying to support the idea of a successful tour, leading to EOTY nominations. I can see promoting the next leg of the tour with this video, with the current leg of the tour already doing so well. But given how the past five years have shown that Carrie is the current standard-bearer for country ambassadorship and live performance to nearly everyone in the music industry but the controlling segment of CMA & ACM voters, I would think and hope that Carrie and her team aren't making video decisions with those voters in mind. I don't think there's anything to "come back from" by any means. If the single was projected to perform poorly at radio, the case for a better music video could hold water, but anything released by Carrie is typically well-received and this song doesn't appear to be an exception. This is really much ado about nothing and won't hinder the song's success. She just added tour dates--clearly she's not struggling. It's not that "Church Bells" is destined to fail at radio without the kind of ambitious video Carrie is capable of delivering. This is about foregoing an opportunity to maximize the song's exposure outside of radio, which could boost its downloads, streams and boost album sales and put the song on the radar of tastemakers in the media and industry. This is about foregoing a marketing tactic that has served Carrie well in the past as well. Sure, there are plenty of huge hits with non-event videos. But on the other hand, there's Tim McGraw's "Humble & Kind," which reached the all-genre top-15 at iTunes on the strength of its video (which went viral thanks in large part to an Oprah tie-in) before it had much airplay at all. The video jumpstarted that song's chart run. Country radio no longer caters to fans of country music, meaning that there is a universe of country music fans to be reached outside of it. As a story song that draws on country music's rich history of murder ballads, songs about faith and redemption and songs about vengeance, "Church Bells" is the kind of Carrie single that would appeal to a segment of country music fans that really hasn't been served by country radio over the past few years. An interesting video would have helped it to do so. That said, your point about Carrie's schedule at the moment is well-taken. Between her tour, the ACMs, Idol and special events, Carrie hardly has a day off in the next two weeks (and she may not have a day off once rehearsals and travel are taken into account). After that, she is mostly touring one day on, one day off, but told Lon Helton that she intends to make sure that she and her son see her husband during playoff season. That would leave no time for a video shoot. But that doesn't explain why Carrie and her team wouldn't have planned ahead by shooting a video in January when she was rehearsing for the tour. She did apparently shoot the concert background video for "Dirty Laundry" during that time, after all.
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Post by Typo on Mar 27, 2016 21:04:15 GMT -5
I totally get the desire to promote the Storyteller Tour, but why not just release "Dirty Laundry"? Carrie herself hinted during a meet & greet that "Dirty Laundry" and "Church Bells" were in contention for the third single. "Dirty Laundry"'s accompanying background video* could have easily been combined with live tour footage to create an effective "Undo It"-esque music video. I wonder if maybe the label felt that "Church Bells" was worthier of the upcoming high-profile performances (ACMs, Idol) and, therefore, threw together a rather last minute live video treatment? In the event that "Dirty Laundry" is still released, I'm curious as to what direction they'll take with its official music video. They can't possibly think that the tour background would work by itself; it's more of a lyric video than anything else. And I can't wrap my head around "Dirty Laundry" receiving a bigger budget video than "Church Bells." *For anyone interested, here's the best footage we've got of "Dirty Laundry"'s background video.
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Post by musicfan134 on Mar 27, 2016 22:06:15 GMT -5
I know the horse has been beaten to death by me multiple times, but at this point this era is by far and away Carrie's worst era in my eyes Yes, you've also made that precise point known here, here and here in just the past six weeks, so I think that we know where you stand. I was hoping for a "proper" music video too, but I think maybe they're going to try to promote the tour with the live video, like trying to support the idea of a successful tour, leading to EOTY nominations. I can see promoting the next leg of the tour with this video, with the current leg of the tour already doing so well. But given how the past five years have shown that Carrie is the current standard-bearer for country ambassadorship and live performance to nearly everyone in the music industry but the controlling segment of CMA & ACM voters, I would think and hope that Carrie and her team aren't making video decisions with those voters in mind. I don't think there's anything to "come back from" by any means. If the single was projected to perform poorly at radio, the case for a better music video could hold water, but anything released by Carrie is typically well-received and this song doesn't appear to be an exception. This is really much ado about nothing and won't hinder the song's success. She just added tour dates--clearly she's not struggling. It's not that "Church Bells" is destined to fail at radio without the kind of ambitious video Carrie is capable of delivering. This is about foregoing an opportunity to maximize the song's exposure outside of radio, which could boost its downloads, streams and boost album sales and put the song on the radar of tastemakers in the media and industry. This is about foregoing a marketing tactic that has served Carrie well in the past as well. Sure, there are plenty of huge hits with non-event videos. But on the other hand, there's Tim McGraw's "Humble & Kind," which reached the all-genre top-15 at iTunes on the strength of its video (which went viral thanks in large part to an Oprah tie-in) before it had much airplay at all. The video jumpstarted that song's chart run. Country radio no longer caters to fans of country music, meaning that there is a universe of country music fans to be reached outside of it. As a story song that draws on country music's rich history of murder ballads, songs about faith and redemption and songs about vengeance, "Church Bells" is the kind of Carrie single that would appeal to a segment of country music fans that really hasn't been served by country radio over the past few years. An interesting video would have helped it to do so. That said, your point about Carrie's schedule at the moment is well-taken. Between her tour, the ACMs, Idol and special events, Carrie hardly has a day off in the next two weeks (and she may not have a day off once rehearsals and travel are taken into account). After that, she is mostly touring one day on, one day off, but told Lon Helton that she intends to make sure that she and her son see her husband during playoff season. That would leave no time for a video shoot. But that doesn't explain why Carrie and her team wouldn't have planned ahead by shooting a video in January when she was rehearsing for the tour. She did apparently shoot the concert background video for "Dirty Laundry" during that time, after all. Sorry, I didn't realize it had been THAT many times. I'll cut it out. Yes to all of your points though. It's not so much that Carrie needs the exposure and assistance in creating buzz, it's that "Church Bells" is tailor made for a phenomenal video not unlike the videos for "Blown Away" and "Two Black Cadillacs" and it is disheartening to see it thrown to the wayside in favor of treatment more akin to "Undo It", when a song like "Renegade Runaway" or even "Dirty Laundry" would accomplish the goal they set out in promoting the tour with a live video just as well, if not better, than "Church Bells". In particular, I am dumbfounded as to why they did not select "Dirty Laundry" as the third single and used the video shown during the tour for the official music video. That would have worked around Carrie's particularly hectic schedule during this time and arguably done a much better, more authentic job of promoting the Storyteller tour than releasing "Church Bells" third with a live video to support it. It is not in any way shape or form that CB is a poor song (it's one of the best on the album, and that seems to be a fairly popular opinion based on what I've read here), but it seems that the reasoning for releasing CB third would've worked more in favor for releasing DL third.
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Post by Carriefan1190 on Mar 28, 2016 19:31:49 GMT -5
I'm extremely disappointed. After listening to Church Bells a little more, they should've made it the 4th single because Dirty Laundry or even RR is more tailor for summer, and then the news broke that CB is going to be a live video, which upsets me because ever since Storyteller was released and I heard CB for the first time, I imagined this epic BA/TBC like video for it. What a waste for an amazing song like CB.
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Post by Massikur2 on Mar 28, 2016 19:55:22 GMT -5
Those of you who are offended that "Church Bells" is being given the live video treatment: have you considered that perhaps Carrie actually wants the song showcased that way?
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Post by matty005 on Mar 28, 2016 20:05:36 GMT -5
Those of you who are offended that "Church Bells" is being given the live video treatment: have you considered that perhaps Carrie actually wants the song showcased that way? And? Even if she does, why would that change that we are disappointed that it's not getting an actual video? Not everyone here is a Carrie stan (not saying you are, but just because it's what Carrie "wants" doesn't mean that is going to change my opinion). And has one person used the word, "offended?"
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Post by bornfearless2000 on Mar 28, 2016 22:53:04 GMT -5
I won't be surprised if DL gets Lyric Video treatment only (like in the tour) to save Label's budget.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Mar 28, 2016 22:56:32 GMT -5
Those of you who are offended that "Church Bells" is being given the live video treatment: have you considered that perhaps Carrie actually wants the song showcased that way? And? Even if she does, why would that change that we are disappointed that it's not getting an actual video? Not everyone here is a Carrie stan (not saying you are, but just because it's what Carrie "wants" doesn't mean that is going to change my opinion). And has one person used the word, "offended?" This. It's like when she decided she really wanted "Mama's Song" to be a single because it meant a lot to her. That didn't change my view that it was one of her worst songs to date and a pretty poor single choice. This song could've had an epic video, and I'm positive that a live video will not be able to deliver that. I am excited about hearing this on the radio though, very much so, as it is one of my favorites on the record. I would've rather it been released later in the era though if it was at the expense of a great video. :(
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Post by sgtoddball on Mar 29, 2016 10:24:50 GMT -5
Carrie has gone all out in the past on videos and spared no expense. Now though if you notice, the songs aren't selling as well. I haven't been paying close attention but I'm not sure Smoke Break or HeartBeat either one is platinum. This might play into the video treatment for this single. Just a thought.
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Post by Elusive Chanteuse on Mar 29, 2016 13:51:16 GMT -5
Carrie has gone all out in the past on videos and spared no expense. Now though if you notice, the songs aren't selling as well. I haven't been paying close attention but I'm not sure Smoke Break or HeartBeat either one is platinum. This might play into the video treatment for this single. Just a thought. Well, to be fair, the videos for Smoke Break and Heartbeat are anything but stellar. Both of them have zero replay value and there is absolutely nothing memorable about them. And that definitely factored their performances on the charts (especially streaming-wise). If anything, this was the single that needed the good visuals. I feel like this will be yet another average-performing single this era, especially with the live video (they often have absolutely no replay value). Also, the fact that she is on tour makes me wonder if she's going to promote this one well...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2016 14:50:29 GMT -5
Carrie has gone all out in the past on videos and spared no expense. Now though if you notice, the songs aren't selling as well. I haven't been paying close attention but I'm not sure Smoke Break or HeartBeat either one is platinum. This might play into the video treatment for this single. Just a thought. I don't think there is any correlation, because the "Smoke Break" and "Heartbeat" videos were filmed either before or very early in the chart run, so her label wouldn't know how much they sold while making the videos.
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