Every new dad knows the moment when your man cave turns into a nursery, and your heart turns to mush. Country artistChris Colstonremembers that moment like it was yesterday.
“Before it was a nursery, it was my trophy room,” the singer-songwriter, 26, tells PEOPLE with a laugh. “I had all my deer and my bucks and my ducks and my bass…I mean, everything was in there. [Laughs] But then, my wife basically said that she didn’t want a bunch of deer heads in our daughter’s nursery.”
So, he turned the moment into his endearing new single, “Boy Like Me.”
Chris Colston.
“I had that line in my head, ‘Those bucks and ducks and bass on the wall’ during the very first [writing session] for the song,” remembers Colston, who wrote the track alongside Kenton Bryant and Jordan Walker just a couple of months after finding out he was going to be a dad to now-2-month-old Emersyn. “Once I wrote the song, I kind of figured out what I wanted the music video to look like. It was going to be an easy story to tell.”
“I wanted to bring the fans into my home,” Colston explains of the video. “I wanted the music video to be as real as possible.”
Chris Colston.Jason Myers
The music video also allowed Colston’s wife Peyton to get glammed up for the first time in a long time.
“My wife definitely didn’t want to be in the video pregnant,” laughs Colston. “So, we waited. And yeah, it had been a while since she had dressed up. She looked gorgeous, and I know she loved the chance to get all pretty.”
The Colston family’s treasured dog Charlie also made it in the music video.
“She’s our King Charles Cavalier, and we’ve had her as long as Peyton and I have been together,” Colston says of their 8-year-old dog, who can be seen laying in the nursery with the fam in the “Boy Like Me” clip. “She’s literally been the best dog ever.”
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Once the music video’s filming process was complete, Colston says, he couldn’t do much but feel super blessed at all that surrounds him these days.
“There are party songs, and there are very sentimental songs, and there are songs about past breakups, and there are songs that have just a little bit of attitude in them too,” he teases. “Every song describes me, I think, perfectly.”
source: people.com
