Granger Smith met his now-wife, Amber Bartlett, in an unconventional way. In 2009, Smith was trying to recruit girls to appear in his music video for "Don't Listen to the Radio." "No one knew who I was, so we had to go to Craigslist and say, 'Country singer looking for female girlfriend for music video role,'" he recalled to Taste of Country in 2016. Smith met with dozens of ladies in "a hotel conference room," where he took "a prom date picture" with each one of them. Smith then chose a girl to star in the video, but after thinking it over, he realized she wasn't the right fit, so he turned to the internet.
"That night, literally, on Facebook I see that little section that says, 'Someone you may know' and I see her picture and I was like, 'That girl. Whoever that is, that's who should be in the video,'" he added. Lo and behold, "that girl" was Bartlett, who agreed to appear in the video alongside Smith.
Of course, Smith has nothing but fond memories of their time on set. "[Amber] is the girlfriend of mine in that video," he said during an Ask Anything Chat in 2017. "I didn't meet her until that day. So, if you watch the music video for 'Don't Listen to the Radio,' that's the same day I met my wife, and the rest is history."
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