Fancy Hagood is in trouble — and needs a little help from his friend Michelle Branch.
On Wednesday, Feb. 26, the country artist, 33, shared the music video for his “Goodbye Earl”-style track “Isn’t That Life,” which Rolling Stone premiered and features him and the singer-songwriter, 41, arguing over disposing a body.
At the start of the visual, Hagood appears panicked as he ties up a dead body in plastic, before calling up Branch and asking her to come to his house.
“Oh my God, Fancy, what have you done?” the “Breathe” singer remarks, before the “Bored” musician replies: “Quit asking questions. We don’t have a lot of time.”
Branch and her friend then help Hagood carry the body to the trunk of Branch’s red Mercedes.
“I can’t go back to jail,” she quips, appearing to nod to her 2022 arrest following an alleged domestic dispute with her husband Patrick Carney, whom she had accused of being unfaithful. (The charge has since been dismissed.)
Branch drives the getaway car, as the pair harmonize: “Yeah you saw me, yeah honey I saw you too / Now, letting go ain’t ever easy to do, no.”
Both musicians then go to a house party before the police crash it.
While Hagood and Branch drive away, they eventually are stopped by the police who open the trunk only to find a note that says “Isn’t That Life” instead of a body.
“When talking through ideas with the director, Ford Fairchild, the idea hit me, ‘What if Michelle and I were Mary Anne and Wanda’s younger cousins, reliving the generational patterns that happen in families.’ The Chicks’ iconic music video was a big inspiration for us, but of course we had to put our own spin on it,” Hagood told Rolling Stone in a statement.
He added: “The song is a positive outlook on heartbreak, but the video is a dark storyline told through a campy and humorous lens. After all, when you can look back and laugh at the bad times you know you’ve really moved on.”
“Isn’t That Life” was featured on Hagood’s 2024 album American Spirit.
In an October 2023 interview with PEOPLE, the “Boys Like You” performer opened up about being a country artist who is a part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
“My dream was to be a country artist, and I was quickly told when I got to Nashville that being a queer country artist wasn’t an option. And so I put that dream on hold for a while,” said Hagood, who then moved to Los Angeles to try out the pop scene.
However, Hagood turned around to chase his lifelong goal.
“Being back in Nashville and creating with my friends, and being inspired by so much change that’s happening, I really decided I wanted to get back to my original dream and pursue why I moved to Nashville in the first place when I was 17,” he said.
Read the full article here
