Fresh off his first Top 30 at Canadian country radio, Chevy Beaulieu is delivering chaos in the best way with the brawny, brashy video for his fan-favourite release “Give A Damn.”
The rising Indigenous artist sure knows how to play a country tune, but as the confident, unapologetic song reveals, that’s where the playing around stops. In the face of naysayers, he sings over swaggering guitars, “Life ain’t always about beer and backroads, but they don’t understand I don’t give a damn. I’m going to keep being who I am.”
The song’s visual treatment is set in a gritty bar where fists fly and guitars shred. Two guys fighting over a leading lady? Check. Chevy himself jamming out and tearing it up? It’s all there. “I had a vision and it came true,” says Chevy of the new music video. “Playing in a cage, broken glass, fighting — it’s like a bar scene out of an ’80s movie. It’s wild, rowdy, and a lot of fun. I wanted it to match the energy of the track, and I think we nailed it.”
Drawing on outlaw country roots and early-2000s rock grit, the track and its video show a rawer side of Chevy. If his label debut “If We Want To” is the radio-ready warm-up, “Give A Damn” is the no-holds-barred main event.
Watch the music video below.
Read more about Chevy Beaulieu in our Love at First Listen interview.
