The video's stars, Colton Haynes and James Scully, along with writer Silas House, talk about the LGBTQ representation in TTChilders' 'In Your Love': 'It really does mean a lot.'
In one scene in a crop field, Jasper and Matthew begin playfully tossing seeds at each other; in another, while watching Childers and his band the Food Stamps perform in a bar, they furtively touch pinkies. Both are simple human expressions of love, but when depicted in a country music video they have the potential to be life-altering.
“I’m from Kansas, a super-small town of 600 people,” says Haynes, best known for his role as Arsenal in CW’s. “This video not only delivers on the story, but also shines a spotlight on a community that really hasn’t had a spotlight shined on it in this genre of music. If I was a kid and seeing something like that, maybe it wouldn’t have been so difficult for me, and maybe it would have made me feel a lot more accepted.
Scully, who was immersed in country music growing up in Texas but often felt disillusioned by the ways the genre could feel regressive or exclusionary, praises Childers for the directness of the video’s convention-busting message. “For those kids growing up in those places, it’s like, ‘If I’m so wrong and broken and sick, why is Tyler Childers writing a song about the endurance of my love?’” Scully says. “In this day and age where everything is so muddied and watered down and confused, Tyler has real, tangible power and desire to heal people and fix things. There’s only, like, six other people I can think of like that right now.
But while all three men note Childers’ “true allyship” — “We’re so used to a lot of performative allyship,” Haynes says — they couldn’t help but be concerned about the response the country singer might receive to showing two men passionately kissing in a music video, even in the year 2023. “We were texting, and I said, ‘I have to be honest, I was really worried for you,’” Haynes recalls. “But people are sticking up for Tyler, basically saying, ‘This is what real outlaw country is.
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