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CHRIS YOUNG: Night Moves

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Being a singer, Chris Young is naturally a concert night owl, but he says that taking advantage of his late-night body rhythms backfired a bit when it came to making the video for his latest smash, “Aw Naw.” (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

  • You can see Chris’ video for “Aw Naw,” right here, on VEVO!
  • Chris admits that the cool-looking club in his “Aw Naw” video wasn’t all that cool in real life! (AUDIO INFO BELOW)
  • Collectible CHEETOS: During the convenience-store portion of his “Aw Naw” video, Chris speculates that a particular prop may have been left behind. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)
  • “Aw Naw” is the first blockbuster single from Chris’ new A.M. album.
  • Congratulations to Chris on news this week that “Aw Naw” has been RIAA-certified as a Gold Digital Single!
  • On Thursday, Brad Paisley officially announced his first run of 2014 tour dates, and Chris will be on the road with Brad once again as Brad’s Beat This Summer Tour becomes a Beat This Winter Tour, with 13 dates on the books beginning January 9th and running through March 1st. The Voice Season 4 winner Danielle Bradbery will also be on board as a special guest.
  • JUST ANNOUNCED… Word just hit today that Chris will be among the artists appearing on the upcoming American Country Awards. Hosted by Trace Adkins and Danica Patrick, the two-hour special will air live at 8pm, ET (tape-delayed PT), December 10th, on FOX.

audio  Chris Young smiles as he recalls a very long night spent shooting his video for “Aw Naw.” (:25)
“It was in Nashville, and I’m gonna be honest: that was one of the worst ideas we have ever had, to film at night. And I thought, ‘This will be perfect.’ It was perfect for me. Everyone else, like, 2 o’clock hit, and you just saw it on everybody’s face. We are done. Like, it’s time for us to go to sleep. And I was like, ‘Oh, I got a second wind! I’m good to go!’ And I think we filmed all the way through to like, 5, 6 in the mornin’, and everybody was just like, ‘Oh, my God, why did we do this?'”

audio  Chris Young says that there was some video magic that created the club scene in his “Aw Naw” video. (:27)
“The club scenes, what was really cool about that is that was actually like an open, kind of abandoned industrial building that we turned into look like a club. And (laughs) all the girls were, like, walkin’ around, like, real careful because there’s puddles of water (laughs) that you can’t see in the video, and they’re all like, ‘Okay, don’t step in that. I don’t know what that is.’ And it was just like, you know, a rundown warehouse that we made look like a really fun club.”

audio  Chris Young believes that an “Aw Naw” video prop may have been left behind! (:13)
“I’m pretty sure somebody went to that gas station and got, like, a really mashed-up bag of CHEETOS. Whatever it was that we were throwin’ back and forth in that video, ’cause we never actually…I think we put it back on the shelf.” (laughs)