Chas Collins has seen the inside of more bars than most, having played over 3,000 live shows across 43 states, so when he says a bar sucks, he knows what he’s talking about. The official music video for his fan-favorite single “This Bar Sucks” is out now, a tongue-in-cheek, self-penned romp through a night out gone gloriously wrong. Listen here.
The video delivers exactly what the title promises. Questionable clientele, an off-key band, a bartender who turns the whole night into a spectacle. Collins describes it as “a hilarious train wreck of a night where everything that could go wrong does,” and the video plays it with the kind of loose, good-natured energy that makes the song impossible not to enjoy.
“This Bar Sucks” follows “Slam Bam,” Collins’ previous single, a swaggering, hook-filled anthem built around neon lights and a shout-along chorus that premiered with The Music Universe and proved itself an immediate set-opener. Two singles in, Collins is showing a range that moves between high-energy bravado and sharp comic timing without missing a step.
The backstory behind Collins makes every song carry extra weight. A Southern-born singer-songwriter raised on gospel and honky tonk grit, he lost everything in Hurricane Katrina and rebuilt his life in Nashville, later channeling the losses of his mother, grandmother, and aunt into some of the most personal writing of his career. His breakout single “That’s What She Said” and Top 10 CMT hit “Try It On” put him on the national map, and he has stayed there through relentless road work and a sound that keeps getting sharper.