Video Includes Cameos by Many of Eric’s Closest Friends:
Brad Paisley, Bobby Bones, Cassadee Pope, Charles Esten,
Craig Wiseman, Hunter Hayes, Jamey Johnson,
and Maddie & Tae
Nashville – Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Eric Paslay premiered the music video to his new album’s title track today. The “Nice Guy” video was filmed in Nashville by director Timothy Hiele and contains cameo appearances by some of Eric’s closest friends including Brad Paisley, Bobby Bones, Cassadee Pope, Charles Esten, Craig Wiseman, Hunter Hayes, Jamey Johnson, and Maddie & Tae. Watch it HERE.
“Because we had to shoot the video during the pandemic this spring, we had to improvise how we could incorporate my friends being involved,” said Eric. “I appreciate the time each of them spent filming something on their own and sending to us to include. It took a lot of extra time planning, but it was so much fun to see what everyone came up with creatively!”
The video’s storyline finds Eric in jail, sarcastically claiming ‘it doesn’t pay to be a nice guy anymore.’ His friends are also up to bad behavior through their cameo scenes. When writing the song with Craig Wiseman, Eric laughed about how bizarre celebrity culture has become and half-joked “you can’t be a cool kid and a nice guy like me at the same time, so Craig suggested we should write that!”
The NICE GUY album is a 12-song collection produced by Eric, F. Reid Shippen and Tofer Brown and is the follow up to his Heartbeat Higher EP released earlier this summer.
Several additional videos from the album were previously released – all directed by Timothy Hiele- “Heartbeat Higher,” “On This Side Of Heaven,” “I Took A Pill In Ibiza,” and “Off The Edge Of The Summer” – watch them: HERE.
For all the latest information on Eric go to www.ericpaslay.com.
“NICE GUY” Lyrics:
I’m gonna stop usin’ my manners
Gonna start sendin’ mean tweets
Gonna start actin’ as if I’m God’s gift
To everybody I meet
I’m gonna stop kissin’ on one girl
Mess around with a few
Put a bumper sticker on my Bentley says evidently
Jesus loves me a lot more than you, yeah
It don’t pay to be a nice guy in a bad guy world
It don’t pay to be a nice guy when the bad guy always gets the girl
You gotta be an A-hole if you wanna bank roll, maybe that’s why I’m poor
What can I say? It just don’t pay to be a nice guy anymore
Oh, what can I say? It just don’t pay to be a nice guy anymore
I’m gonna do my best to get arrested
Yeah, take a drunk mug shot
When I go out clubbin’
Gonna roll these hubs right up in that handicap spot
Yeah, I’m gonna fill a bunch of Youtubes up
Doing somethin’ obscene
Do whatever it takes to get my irritatin’ face
On the cover of a Hollywood magazine, yeah
It don’t pay to be a nice guy in a bad guy world
It don’t pay to be a nice guy when the bad guy always gets the girl
You gotta be an A-hole if you wanna bank roll, maybe that’s why I’m poor
What can I say? It just don’t pay to be a nice guy anymore
Oh, what can I say? It just don’t pay to be a nice guy anymore
I said hey (hey)
It don’t pay, it don’t pay to be a nice guy anymore
Nice guy anymore
Hey (hey)
It don’t pay, it don’t pay to be a nice guy anymore
Nice guy anymore
Hey (hey)
It don’t pay, it don’t pay to be a nice guy anymore
Oh no
It don’t pay to be a nice guy in a bad guy world
It don’t pay to be a nice guy when the bad guy always gets the girl
You gotta be an A-hole if you wanna bank roll, maybe that’s why I’m poor
What can I say? It just don’t pay to be a nice guy anymore
Oh, what can I say? It just don’t pay to be a nice guy anymore
For all the latest information on Eric go to www.ericpaslay.com.