Oscar and Grammy nominated singer and songwriter, DIXSON has released a video for his latest track, “Sweeter.” The video was directed by Khairi Christopher and DIXSON, with the video showing a heartwarming story of young love. The video was filmed at DIXSON’s former high school, Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy, and starts with a limping basketball player brought through the halls by his coach. Another student attempts to help before they continue to another part of the building.
The video then shows the injured player in his room writing and recording songs. For the school’s picture day, he connects with the girl that tried to help him, who happens to be a student photographer taking everyone’s picture. He gives her a CD with the songs he wrote titled 004DAISY. To find out the rest watch it on your own and see how this story turns out.
In a Twitter Spaces reveal, DIXSON revealed his inspiration for the video saying, “I shot the video at my high school. I had a principal there. Her name was Geraldine Thompson. Her husband is a pastor in Atlanta of a pretty big church. I was always so inspired by their relationship with each other — the honesty and the stories we always heard about them, My parents are very similar. My mom was in education. My dad was a pastor. My parents divorced right before I started going to the school. To see this couple existing and communicating in a very honest and truthful way was real. As you get older, you get to connect with these people and they begin to tell you stories about how things weren’t always great. And you’d be surprised if you see them together. It’s like, Man, no way. Y’all encountered all of this hardship? I just remember hearing those stories and logging that in my head.”
DIXSON also shared online that, “004DAISY is the beta, my own version of freedom. If you let them, they will box you in. This is me boxing back. Round 1. Punching mediocre square in the jaw. My drive is expanding. From God’s ears to yours.”
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