A Jason Aldean Music Video Is Gaining New Life After Hayden Panettiere’s Death
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Do you remember the music video for Jason Aldean‘s song “1994”?
Many country music fans are revisiting the song’s 2013 music video in light of the tragic death of actress Hayden Panettiere, who died at the age of 36 on Sunday, Aug. 16.
Her status as the lead in the series Nashville, which aired from 2012 to 2018, places her among several prominent figures in the country music scene around the time that Aldean recorded his song.
Take a look back at Hayden Panettiere’s cameo in Aldean’s music video for “1994,” and reflect on her life and legacy, below…
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Watch Hayden Panettiere In Jason Aldean’s “1994” Music Video
The song “1994” was a single on Aldean’s 2012 album Night Train, and its chorus was an ode to country artist Joe Diffie, whose biggest hit album, Third Rock From the Sun, was released in the year used as the title of Aldean’s song.
Notably, Diffie does not feature in the music video.
While the music video itself was a throwback, of sorts, to 1994, watching it now shows how much of a time capsule the music video is of country music in 2013.
Not only is Hayden Panettiere in the music video — and just as the first season of her ABC drama series Nashville was taking off — but a whole slew of country artists are in it as well.
Among them is Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Jake Owen, and Thomas Rhett, the latter of whom co-wrote the song “1994” for Aldean.
There are also groups like Lady Antebellum, now called Lady A; Little Big Town; and Florida Georgia Line, which has recently seen its frontmen reunite.
While it’s a song about 1994, the music video couldn’t be more 2013 with artists like those. The inclusion of Hayden Panettiere speaks to the special place in the country scene of that moment that the series Nashville held.
Revisit the music video, here:
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