The Band Perry : If I Die Young Video

The Band Perry’s If I Die Young video is the trio’s first Number One hit. Written by Kimberly Perry and directed by David McClister, the video includes Kimberly in a canoe holding a book containing poems by Tennyson, including The Lady of Shalott, which the book is opened to at the end of the music video. ‘If I Die Young’ is actually the first song that we had penned for the album,” Kimberly told The Boot. “It defines an early chapter of our music career. We penned it on a cloudy day in East Tennessee, which is where we live and do all of our best thinking. We wanted to write a song about making the most of whatever time you’re given — whether it’s two years, twenty years or two hundred. We really have gotten to live and love at our young ages. ‘If I Die Young,’ for us, is about if it all ends at this moment, look at what we’ve gotten to do. Whatever time we’re given will be absolutely enough as long as we make the most of it.”