Now that you’ve listened to Brad Paisley‘s music album LOVE AND WAR, can you check out the visual album LOVE AND WAR, as it’s available starting today! Brad is releasing a visual version of LOVE AND WAR that you can find exclusively on Apple Music. Brad is the first country artist to release a visual album, and fans can get a taste of what to expect on his Facebook page–or you can click right HERE to see it.
One of the more interesting songs that appear on the visual album is “Go To Bed Early”–which consisted of Brad doing a pop-show in a local mall in Nashville. He walked in unannounced, and you get to see the reactions of all the people realizing…that Brad Paisley is about to a pop-up show in the mall. Brad says what you see is how it happened ““I cannot believe the way that came out, and all those reactions are real.” Brad goes on to share how he came up with the ideas for all the videos “we had one line answers, we had like a one sheet where we talked with like a one sentence description of what each video could be.” From those one line answers, Brad filmed 16 music videos in 3 weeks. So, on the heels of creating 16 songs, and then 16 videos, Brad was asked if this was the most grueling and demanding project of his career…his reply, ““Absolutely, without a doubt, and also, the most rewarding so far.” The videos on the LOVE AND WAR feature the special guest stars that also appear on the album. Bill Anderson shares that for their song “Dying to See Her” Brad knew exactly where he wanted it to be seen and heard for the first time, “From the minute that we wrote this song, he told me…he said ‘I want to do it the first time, in public, I want it to be on the Grand Ole Opry.’” Bill also shares a funny moment that happened right before he and Brad performed the song “On the stage that night at the Opry, before we did the song he said “I had this idea, and I wanted to write it with the greatest song writer in the world’ and he kind of turn toward me, and he said ‘so, I called him, and he wasn’t home, so I called Bill’ (laugh) and I turned around and I said ‘thank you Kenny Chesney’ (laugh).” John Fogerty says that filming the title track “Love and War” with Brad was a balancing act “You know that day on the aircraft carrier, it’s a rocking track…it’s a rocking song…you want to rock out, but at the same time you’re respectful, you realize I can’t be here being silly, and having too much fun, you know, it’s a serious subject. There was that awareness that even though the songs rocking out, I don’t want to look like that, because we want people to hear the message.” Timbaland who produced two songs on Brad album, appears in the video for one of them, “Grey Goose Chase”–which basically had him driving an ATV, with a bottle of grey goose hanging off the back, with Brad and his band chasing it. Timbaland admits that it didn’t even feel like work “it was a brilliant thing. I had fun, and it wasn’t like a video, it was almost like them filming us acting a fool. (laugh)”
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Brad Paisley starts with the reaction he got to filming the video for “Got To Bed Early,” and goes on to describe several other videos fans can check out on the LOVE AND WAR visual album. (1:18)
“I cannot believe the way that came out, and all those reactions are real…in the mall. What’s interesting when we filmed ‘Go To Bed Early,’ all I had…we had one line answers, we had like a one sheet where we talked with like a one sentence description of what each video could be. First one was ‘Heaven South’…it was like Georgia Satellites driving through the country on a truck bed, winding up in Franklin town square, just like the song talks about. Second song was ‘Last Time For Everything’ which was like, OK, this one should be Stranger Things and Knight Rider. And then another one, ‘One Beer Can’ was home surveillance footage while the parents were away. And the one after that was ‘Go To Bed Early’ and I was like ‘Oh, I know, I should just go perform in a Sleep Number store, a pop-up show and see what people do.’ And flash forward to…there I walk through the Cool Springs mall feeling like an idiot with everybody looking at me going ‘why is he walking around in here…where’s he going?’ And then they just started following me, and the next thing you know we’re in a store, playing the song, and those reactions, we didn’t even notice them until we watched the tape back, and you just saw everybody just…every single cell phone is out filming.”
Brad Paisley filmed 16 music videos in 3 weeks, on the heels of creating a 16 songs for his album LOVE AND WAR, so we asked him, was this the most grueling and demanding project of his career. (:04)
“Absolutely, without a doubt, and also, the most rewarding so far.”
Bill Anderson shares that Brad Paisley knew right away where the video for “Dying To See Her” should be filmed. (:65)
“From the minute that we wrote this song, he told me…he said ‘I want to do it the first time, in public, I want it to be on the Grand Ole Opry.’ That was his idea, and it was the first time that we performed it anywhere in public, and he specifically wanted it to be at the Opry. He has such a reverence for the Opry, such a respect for the Opry and the traditions of our music…even though he’s taking our music into all kinds of new, and wonderful worlds, and places. But doing it on the stage at the Opry was very very special. He told the audience…I’ll give you a little bit of an insight into his personality and our relationship. On the stage that night at the Opry, before we did the song he said “I had this idea, and I wanted to write it with the greatest song writer in the world’ and he kind of turn toward me, and he said ‘so, I called him, and he wasn’t home, so I called Bill’ (laugh) and I turned around and I said ‘thank you Kenny Chesney’ (laugh). So when you got a relationship like that with somebody, it’s very special.”
John Fogerty talks about the balancing act needed in the video for “Love and War.” (:28)
“You know that day on the aircraft carrier, it’s a rocking track…it’s a rocking song…you want to rock out, but at the same time you’re respectful, you realize I can’t be here being silly, and having too much fun, you know, it’s a serious subject. There was that awareness that even though the songs rocking out, I don’t want to look like that, because we want people to hear the message.”
Timbaland talks about filming the video for “Grey Goose Chase.” (:08)
“It was a great day of work, and it was cold. (laugh) And so, it was a brilliant thing. I had fun, and it wasn’t like a video, it was almost like them filming us acting a fool. (laugh)”