It’s as amazing as I thought it would be. She just gets better and better as time goes on. I smell another Country #1!

I think it’s safe to say Carrie is on her way to being a Country legend the likes of Shania, Reba, and Dolly. Ugh, I love her.

At the San Antonio KJ97 premiere party for the video on Saturday, the director Randee St. Nicholas said the Wizard Of Oz references were actually Carrie’s idea (stemming back to the album cover shoot, which Randee St. Nicholas also did). Sony Nashville Creative Director Scott McDaniel definitely confirmed the Wizard Of Oz imagery was Carrie’s idea in the album shoot in a Country Weekly interview before the album came out.

I think the imagery is a great touch. The opening scene gave me chills, because it implied not only physical abuse but sexual abuse. I didn’t necessarily expect the girl to try to wake her dad but it makes sense to me that even an abuse victim would have a moment like that. That moment where Carrie spun around when she saw the twister coming was a great way of conveying how she was almost wishing for it to come.

The end is a little bit of a letdown in execution IMO, it almost felt sudden how we went from a storm that was gathering in strength to Carrie suddenly emerging from the storm cellar to a sunny day with the house blown to bits. Though, I almost wondered if we were supposed to wonder if she (and her dog Penny) had also somehow died and gone to heaven.

The video’s not perfect but I think it’s really good and a worthy effort for the song. I love about 98% of it. The way the storm is interspersed with memories of what the dad did really works, and Carrie does a really good job playing the part of an emotionally torn abuse victim. Big props to the guy playing the dad too, I pretty much hated him.

BA the song already shot up to #35 at Itunes thanks to E! airing promos for the vid premiere, and is now #30 at Itunes.

Very well done video. Hope it gives the song a needed boost.

Love Carrie. Like the video but. . . . . . . . I believe Carrie emerging from the cellar to a bright sunny day was too abrupt. 

It is not immediately bright after a tornado.  There are usually residual rain storms with overcast skies that are, metaphorically speaking, cleansing in nature.  I would prefer that Carrie come out of the cellar and see the aftermath of the tornado and then, after gazing upon the devastation, realize that the slate has been “wiped clean” as far as the abuse.  Here, we could then have Carrie imagining future days of sunshine and flowers-with Penny of course. lol.

During the chorus with Carrie singing, “Shatter every window ’till its all blown away.  Every brick every board every slamming door blown away. . . . .” I would show boards and glass a-flyin’ with flashbacks of former confrontations between Carrie and her “dad”, tastefully done.  The present video does have flashbacks of her father’s drunken behaviour but, IMO, it would have been more powerful with Carrie in the picture.

Of course, the song is only so long.  I would have needed at least a couple of more verses to fit all of this in. heh.   Mind you, the next music video I produce and direct will be my first :)  With all of this said, the video is superb if for no other reason than Carrie appears in it and she is singing.  Final note: Carrie really does have acting talent.

I found myself hoping the storm would have blown her away instead.

THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  HOLY CRAP.  

might have worked better had a younger actress played the role of the daughter as Carrie looks too old to still be living at home and certainly too old to be sitting at the kitchen table doing homework.  Also, if the implication is that he is sexually/physically abusing her why is she wearing a low-cut/revealing dress?

I do agree that it’s beautifully shot though.

I love the song and the video was real good. I believe this is the deepest video she’s done.

 I really like the Clouds video and am wondering if anyone knows who portrays Carries father in it?  Thanks.