Scotty McCreery Premieres Video for 'Love You This Big'

Singer Scotty McCreery performs at American Idols Live! at the Nokia Theatre on July 15, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)more pics » Scotty McCreery (Getty Images) Three months after winning American Idol, the video for Scotty McCreery's first single, "I Love You This Big," hit the Web on Tuesday. The song, which showcases the 17-year-old singer's rich baritone, will be familiar to Idol fans who saw Scotty sing it during his final battle against Lauren Alaina.

In Scotty's new video, he sits on an outdoor stage while his band sets up its equipment and a family-friendly audience starts to fill the grassy area in front of the stage. It has a very all-American small-town feel to it that resonates with Scotty's background growing up in Garner, North Carolina.

The video builds up to a summer evening performance complete with fireworks and young love. Check out the finished product below.

'Idol' runner-up Lauren Alaina also debuted her first video.
By Gil Kaufman

Lauren Alaina and Scotty McCreery
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Interscope records boss Jimmy Iovine promised that the roll-out of music by this year's champ Scotty McCreery Monday night, and it finds him earnestly singing the midtempo tune as his band sets up behind him in a Los Angeles park. Short on flash, the clip consists mostly of McCreery looking out pensively into the distance as he lip-synchs the plainspoken love song and families gather 'round to watch the concert.
Halfway through, the action turns to a nighttime scene, with lights strung around the stage as a series of fresh-faced young ladies approach their fellas and lean in for some chaste hugs and kisses while digital fireworks explode in the sky. Good guy that he is, McCreery tipped his fans off to the fact that his mother makes a cameo in the clip.
While the quick turnaround video for "Big" was impressive (given that McCreery is in the midst of the grueling Idols Live! summer tour), even more surprising was that this year's runner-up, fellow country teen Lauren Alaina, also dropped her first video on Monday on her website.
Alaina's video, for her single "Like My Mother Does," already has the high-schooler looking more glammed up and Hollywood country, in a touching effort that prominently features home movies of the singer and her mother. In between shots of a wistful Alaina singing the homage to her momma inside a Southern country-comfort home while looking directly into the camera, fans see clips of her performing as a child and celebrating birthdays with friends and family.
Some of the pictures and videos are projected on the inside of the rustic home and intercut with Alaina standing in the kitchen, lounging on a couch in the living room, balancing on the railing of a front porch and laying in bed looking at a photo album while shedding a single tear.
The American Idol Winner, Scotty McCreery debuted a music video for his record-breaking debut single, ‘I Love You This Big’. The new clip features his live performance in an intimate gig for a group of people around the neighborhood. The fireworks are set off in the air give some more summer seasonal flavors to it.
The Mercury Nashville artist said that it is pretty insane. He explained how he felt about having his first-ever music video that all the hard work has been put into this and now he is sitting there doing his first music video and it is really just a cool thing to finally be there.
Scotty McCreery has gushed that it is going to be kind of a nice little chill summertime barbecue and a king of like a community thing on the Fourth of July. He also gushed that it is just a really fun thing that they are all just kind of chilling and that is the word for the music video.
The most recent winner of the American Idol season, Scotty McCreery said that for this first album, they are definitely going to let the fans know first about all of the details coming out. Currently, Scotty is in the ‘American Idols Live tour’ which will be wrapped on September.