{"id":75926,"date":"2022-06-03T09:23:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T07:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=75926"},"modified":"2022-06-06T12:32:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T10:32:25","slug":"parmalee-shares-the-music-video-for-their-top-five-us-hit-take-my-name-a-musical-marriage-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2022\/06\/parmalee-shares-the-music-video-for-their-top-five-us-hit-take-my-name-a-musical-marriage-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Parmalee Shares The Music Video For Their Top Five US Hit \u2018Take My Name’, A Musical Marriage Proposal."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in October of 2021, Parmalee released \u2018Take My Name\u2019 as the second single from their third studio album. It was written with and produced by David Fanning, producer of the massive hit \u2018Carolina\u2019 that introduced me to the band back in 2008, Ashley Gorley and Ben Johnson. Robyn Collins of \u2018Taste of Country\u2019 described the song as \u201ca musical marriage proposal\u201d and lead singer of the band, Matt Thomas, says it was inspired by the marriage of brother Scott; he says \u201cit made me think about what I would want to say to my future wife.\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Some songs almost become bigger than themselves when they tap into the lives and moods of everyone and this is very much one of those songs. It\u2019s not difficult to see why this song has been adopted by fans all over the world irrespective of their taste in music; its words conjure all the romance and love that\u00a0you\u2019d hope to feel when you ask someone to marry you. It\u2019s lyrically a shopping list of everything you feel at the moment you realise you\u2019ve met the one, even if that\u2019s after only a short time. I remember proposing to my wife after just 8 weeks and if I try to remember what I was feeling at the point I proposed and tried to put it into words I would hope it was very similar to this song. Now over 31 years later and still happily married I listen to this song and it brings all those feelings back in a rush so why wouldn\u2019t it be the perfect song to overlay a proposal, sing at the wedding or just be part of the moment; it\u2019s how I\u2019d love my sons to feel when they propose to their partners.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Parmalee are very aware of their fans needs and were quick to record a wedding version for such occasions with a less catchy percussion and a softer piano focussed vibe than the original version. There have even been brilliant occasions where the band has turned up to \u201ccrash\u201d a wedding and sing this song to the happy couple reminiscent of Maroon 5 and their song \u2018Sugar\u2019. None of those guests will forget that wedding in a hurry!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With all the interest in the song and the brilliant videos and messages the band have received, they felt the time was right to make their own narrative video to accompany the song as an addition to the previously released visualizer. The \u2018Wedding Version\u2019 video of the romantic song was filmed in Gallatin, TN and directed by Shane Drake. The heart-warming story follows the journey of the protagonist through middle school and all the way to adulthood featuring kids from a local school, an original 1968 Mustang Shelby GT350 and appearances from the band with the lead being played by frontman Matt Thomas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt says: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom the jump, the fans have really latched onto this song in such an amazing, life changing way- our fans have been the reason for so many of our own major milestones, so it means that much more to us that folks are using our song for their proposals and weddings and allowing us to be a part of those major moments in their lives. We wanted to pay tribute to the fans who have been on this journey with us since the beginning so in the music video you\u2019ll see a story of love and loyalty unfold across the years-but don’t expect to see any weddings or proposals – the fan created videos far exceed anything we could depict. We love watching them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

With over 135 million global on demand streams, the song has raced up the Country charts, outpacing the band\u2019s previous single, the multinational Number 1 smash \u2018Just The Way\u2019 with Blanco Brown and has been popping up all over TikTok with creators playing the song over proposal and wedding videos and even sparking a trend of using the sound of the song and writing \u201cif your man doesn\u2019t make you feel this way then what are you doing?\u201d over the video.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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