Steven Tyler, Aerosmith frontman & recent American Idol judge, just released the video for his first country single, ‘Love Is Your Name.’
While filming the video Tyler got burned, as in burned his eyebrow off! Tyler told People Country, “During the chorus, we had a big bonfire going. I burnt my eyebrows off, but it was worth it. We went through [the sequence] and the wind blew. The jacket I wore had little fur pieces on it and I could smell the burn on it. It blew the flames right at me!”
Despite his red-hot start, Tyler, 67, says his country career has been a long time in the making. The Aerosmith front man reports Big Machine CEO Scott Borchetta had been trying to coax him to make a country album for a while, and the two finally inked a deal this past spring. The star-studded label, which boasts such artists as Taylor Swift and Florida Georgia Line, unveiled the video for Tyler’s debut country single on Friday after seeing it climb the charts for the past two months.
The clip begins with Tyler’s microphone and a string of his scarves in an empty arena and travels through the various phases of his life, flashing back to the cabin in the 1,200-person town he grew up in – and featuring an appearance by a special furry friend.
“Growing up, I lived in a cabin by the lake and I had a pet raccoon,” Tyler says. “I told that to [director] Trey Fanjoy, so she put it in the video.”
The girl in the video represents Tyler’s muse, he explains to PEOPLE, and she drags his scarves “through my life … over the river and through the woods,” from his childhood “to another life, which is my country [music] now.”
The video was shot in a forest on the outskirts of Nashville with a whole entourage, including the band Loving Mary and Fanjoy’s son, who plays Tyler as a kid.
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