Dee Snider releases new music video for ‘Stand (With Ukraine)’
DEE SNIDER has released a new music video!
The new music video, for a reworked version of Stand [titled Stand (With Ukraine)], comes in collaboration with World United Live. The re-worked video is available to watch exclusively via World United Live‘s website.
The platform operates with the goal of raising awareness that may otherwise be shielded from the Russian people, to digitally, simultaneously protest in support of Ukraine, and to eventually coordinate the world’s largest aid concert to help them rebuild. The song originally appeared on SNIDER‘s latest album, Leave A Scar, which was released in July last year.
Speaking about the reworked track and the initiative to help Ukraine, Snider says, “about a month ago, someone on social media told me people in Ukraine were using TWISTED SISTER‘s We’re Not Gonna Take It as a battle cry, and asked if I was cool with it. Of course I was. My response elicited someone asking me why I was okay with Ukrainians using my song and not some other groups. I won’t repeat my exact response (it was a bit political), but that tweet went internationally viral. Every news agency in the world suddenly wanted to talk to me.
At that very moment, some great people (who were all friends of mine) were hatching the idea for World United Live and asked me if I would spearhead the organisation. How could I say no? Since then, we have been beating the drum for the free world to come together, not only in support of Ukraine and condemnation of Putin, but in sending a message to the Russian people that they are misinformed and not being told the truth. Now, with the help of the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and many others, we are doing just that!
About a week ago, it hit me that the song Stand from my last Napalm Records album, Leave A Scar, fit the crisis in Ukraine perfectly… but I had already released a video for Stand recently. Yet I just couldn’t get around how well the lyrics resonated with Putin‘s attack on these innocent people. Ukraine was the furthest thing from my mind when I wrote the words for that song, yet it was like I had done just that. So, I had a couple of incredibly talented people (Scott Pitek and Steve Sage Goldberg) cut together a new video using some live concert footage and news clips. The result is devastating. Please watch and share Stand (with Ukraine) and join us at www.worldunited.live. Help save the world. Together we can.”
Leave A Scar is out now via Napalm Records.
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