The Journal Gazette reports that “My City” is a persuasive love letter to this city composed of several dazzling displays of rapping prowess and a chorus that, once heard, may never leave your head…”
“It is a stirring and soaring piece of work, one that any city of any size would be proud to call its own.
The song was recorded in October at Digitracks in Fort Wayne, and Kelly Lynch of Lynchpin Creative was tapped to shoot the video.
Lynch, who won first place at The Really Big Short Film Festival in Indianapolis in 2008, says he was already well known to staffers at A Better Fort as someone who is “crazy invested in making Fort Wayne cool.”
Lynch spent a month doing prep work and shot the video in early December making use of such Fort Wayne locales as Hyde Bros. Books, Neat Neat Neat Records, Parkview Field, the Wells Street Bridge and Coney Island.
Lynch says he has come to believe that the best way to get people excited about a city’s future is not to shove a vision for that future “down their throats.” It is to help them imagine the future for themselves.
“We need to stop telling people what the story is and start showing them.”
“Kelly’s been unbelievable,” Fisher says. “His insight has been unbelievable.”