{"id":44503,"date":"2025-08-21T19:43:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/21\/watch-kaitlin-butts-deadly-you-aint-gotta-die-video\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:43:31","slug":"watch-kaitlin-butts-deadly-you-aint-gotta-die-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/21\/watch-kaitlin-butts-deadly-you-aint-gotta-die-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Kaitlin Butts&#8217; Deadly &#8216;You Ain&#8217;t Gotta Die&#8217; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The TikTok hit comes to vivid life \u2014 and death \u2014 in a clip that warns men not to cross the Oklahoma country singer<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kaitlin-butts\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kaitlin-butts\" data-tag=\"kaitlin-butts\">Kaitlin Butts<\/a> is shooting off fingers and poisoning suitors \u2014 including real-life husband Cleto Cordero of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/flatland-cavalry-toby-keith-tribute-shouldve-been-a-cowboy-1234967725\/\">Flatland Cavalry<\/a> \u2014 in the gloriously campy video for \u201cYou Ain\u2019t Gotta Die (To Be Dead to Me),\u201d the track off her album <em>Roadrunner!<\/em> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/kaitlin-butts-tiktok-you-aint-gotta-die-to-be-dead-to-me-1235357090\/\">blew up on TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe music video, directed by Chris Beyrooty, is rooted in spaghetti western imagery: sun-baked building facades, dusty roads, and horse-drawn carriages all help tell Butts\u2019 tale of a vengeful woman, Kissin\u2019 Katie B.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kaitlin Butts - You Ain&#039;t Gotta Die (To Be Dead To Me) - Official Music Video\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T6LT6iqgybQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cMaking this music video was something I\u2019ve wanted to do since I put out this album,\u201d Butts said in a statement. \u201cI\u2019ve had the treatment for it since January 2024, when I was writing the videos for\u00a0\u2018Wild Juanita\u2019s,\u2019\u00a0\u2018Hunt You Down\u2019\u00a0and\u00a0\u2018Other Girls.\u2019\u00a0When\u00a0\u2018You Ain\u2019t Gotta Die\u2019\u00a0started to have its viral moment, I was so excited to create something I\u2019ve had in my head for so long. We looped in director Chris Beyrooty to help me bring it all to life and I could not be more pleased with how it turned out. I took some inspiration from some of my favorite movies,\u00a0<em>Holes<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Django Unchained<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Chicago<\/em>. Expect a little dance with a side of blood, lipstick and justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cYou Ain\u2019t Gotta Die (To Be Dead to Me)\u201d caught fire on TikTok back in May, after the country singer Avery Anna posted a video of herself lip-syncing to the song. Ella Langley, Brianna LaPaglia, and even Valerie Bertinelli all followed suit. Eventually the clip hit more than 120 million TikTok views.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThat sparked a huge streaming spike, and it is kind of changing my life before my eyes,\u201d Butts told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> in June. \u201cIt\u2019s a year later after the album release, and I keep seeing friends and people that I have followed for a long time, and random influencers who are comedians who I have followed forever, are posting them. I feel the support.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/kaitlin-butts-you-aint-gotta-die-dead-to-me-video-1235412293\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TikTok hit comes to vivid life \u2014 and death \u2014 in a clip that warns men not to cross the Oklahoma country singer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":44504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}