Martina McBride Wanted "Independence Day" to Be Realistic
Martina McBride usually sees all the treatments that come in for her music videos, and she says she still remembers when she received a very unique one for "Independence Day," which won a CMA award for best video in 1994, and has since emerged as her signature song.
At that time, she had never met video directors/producers Robert Deaton or George Flanigen, the team responsible for hundreds of country music videos. "I remember calling the label and said, ‘I really want to sit down and talk with these guys. I like this treatment but I really want this video to be realistic -- as realistic as we can do it, because it's not something that you just smooth over. I would rather not do a video than do that,'" she recalls. "So we sat and talked for about three hours, just getting to know them. I wanted to make sure that they were coming at it from the same kind of place that I was, with the same passion I had for it. Still, to this day, it's my most memorable video shoot. We all knew it was something really special. It was not just another video. There was something about it that was special, ground-breaking and different."
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RedMaZ says:
Hey? Isn’t that the Hannity show theme song? I Guess it can’t be that special to let some talk show host use it completely out of context. Sounds like nothing more than a Pop ditty for the mainstream media to use. Now THAT’s abuse.
SamBushFan says:
Red, why bother with the comments. Listen to some music and chill.
RedMaZ says:
I’m always listening to music, and I’m a big Sam Bush fan.
RedMaZ says:
If you’re talking to me, I must say I like a lot of the music on this site. One doesn’t know if they like it or not until they listen to it. How convenient of you to pick out only the negative. I just said I like Sam Bush. Is that negative? ..
Blake says:
For what it’s worth, McBride does not have the power to strip the song from the program. Gretchen Peters (the song’s writer) on the use of “Independence Day” on the Hannity show: “They have to pay me every time they play it, and I don’t have any control over whether they play it or not. I can’t make them stop. I don’t agree with the guy on anything. But they do pay me. I guess I feel it kind of puts me in slightly better position to support the causes I believe in. I know that he’s using it, I know he’s completely disregarding what the song’s about. It has nothing to do with patriotism or anything like that. But that’s an old story. That’s a really old story. I think it was Reagan who used ‘Born In The U.S.A.’ for his campaign song. And I wanted to say, Hey, have you listened to that song? It’s about the Vietnam War - hello? So that goes on all the time. And I just figure, as long as they pay and that gives me the wherewithal to support causes that I believe in, it all works out in the end.”
diane says:
Regardless who uses the song now..it is an incredible song..an incredible video with an incredible message sung by an incredible vocalist..End of story.