This is an interesting blog posted by Cardin McKinney regrading the White Horse music video ---
"I'm not a princess, this aint a fairy tale...
Once upon a time, I was a girl who had just found out her boyfriend was dating another girl at the same exact time that he was dating me. I locked myself in the bathroom. I doubled over crying and weeping against the bathroom door. It could only hold me up for so long. I finally slid down it's slick front until I hit the cold floor beneath me. I sat in that same crumpled position, cursing through my tears, hyperventilating with my head in hands.. losing control of my body and thoughts.
Don't worry. Although this similar event has unfortunately happened to me in the past, this was only an audition for a part in the new Taylor Swift video, "White Horse". An audition that I literally picked myself up off of the floor from, and walked out with a new found respect for myself and my work as an artist ( musically or theatrically).
Last night, I received a call from my agent. He was thrilled! "Cardin! Listen. You got the gig. They are 99.9% sure...just tying up some loose ends and we'll have the green light. Trey loved you. They couldn't stop talking about how impressed they were with you. This video is going to be huge!! It'll crossover. Pop, country. Whatever. It's huge."
I was so excited about the news! I was in the Hendersonville Wal-Mart parking lot and leapt into Matthew's arms. We partied down the aisles inside. I'm a pretty big Taylor fan myself and was ecstatic to work with her! This morning, I got a pretty unfortunate phone call. Apparently, working as a "video girl" in Nashville is a little more complicated than one would think. I was the lead in Jimmy Wayne's "Do You Believe Me Now?" video about a year ago, which in this case (and actually one other case before this) is "the big bad wolf" to any one hoping for yet another lead role in a video for the same record label. To sum it all up, Jimmy's label is essentially the same as Taylor's and I was un-cast for "White Horse". The record label forced the director, Trey Fanjoy, to go with the second choice.
Pretty unfortunate, right? What a great role I missed out on. May or may not have cried a little. Great song. Great opportunity. I know the video will be killer.. but maybe a little hard to watch now. :) I wish everyone involved the best of luck. I'm bummed. But what do you do? You just get off the cold bathroom floor, hold on to the respect you first had for yourself... get on your own White Horse.. ride off into the sunset.. and see what tomorrow brings.
Once again. As Queeny says. "Ya neva know what's comin' fuh ya'" "
***credit to TSST Pennsylvania
