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Brad Paisley is marking one year since Russia invaded Ukraine.
On Friday (February 24), the 50-year-old country music singer released his new song “Same Here,” featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
In the song, Brad compares the dreams, hopes, and fears of people living in both America and the Ukraine, singing that “there’s just no differences.”
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The song also features a brief phone conversation with President Zelenskyy, where he says, “We speak different languages in our life. Yes, but I think we appreciate the same things – children, freedom, our flag, our soldiers, our people. The biggest treasure we have. And friends. And we’re proud of our army who defends our freedom and will defend our lives.”
He adds,”There’s no distance between our countries in such values. That is very important to see that they are really in many, in many things really the same.”
While speaking with The Associated Press, Brad said he wrote the song after watching videos of Russian troops invading Ukraine, saying that he might not know the Ukrainian language, but he could “recognize the tears.”
“You can put us in different places with different flags and different languages, but we have so many similarities,” Brad explained. “I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night if I didn’t sort of swing for the fence with things like this. For me, I’m happiest dealing with stuff as a songwriter that’s very true and very, very passionate. And sometimes I don’t know if you’d call it risky, but it’s more like it’s bigger than me.”
Proceeds from the song will benefit UNITED24’s Rebuild Ukraine program, which President Zelenskyy launched last year.
You can download Brad Paisley‘s new song off of iTunes here.
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Russian troops invaded Ukraine and, like many people around the world, he felt helpless at the images of people fleeing their homes.“The world felt like it was in a new place that it hadn’t been in decades,” the three-time Grammy winner recalls.On Friday, the one-year anniversary of the war’s start, Paisley is releasing a new song called “Same Here,” featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaking proudly about his country and people.The song is Paisley’s first from his new record, “Son of the Mountains,” to be released later this year on Universal Music Group Nashville.The West Virginia native wrote the song with Lee Thomas Miller (co-writer on Paisley hits “The World” and “Perfect Storm”) and Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith. It’s a three-part narrative that reflects on universal similarities, despite distance and language.While it doesn’t mention Ukraine specifically, the song ends with Paisley and Zelenskyy in conversation, recorded during a video call.
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