Simple Plan’s New Music Video To Double As UNICEF Fundraiser For Ukraine
etcanada.comWhen members of Simple Plan sat down to brainstorm concepts for a music video earlier this year, it was hard to ignore one idea that was staring right back at them in Ukrainian filmmaker Jensen Noen.
Several months earlier, the Montreal pop-punk band had formed a friendship with the L.A.-based director who shot their videos for “The Antidote” and “Ruin My Life”.
As they planned a third for the single “Wake Me Up (When This Nightmare’s Over)”, Ukraine was slipping into a humanitarian crisis as Russia invaded the country.
Drummer Chuck Comeau said the band ended up in conversations with Noen about the troubling circumstances in his homeland and ways they could draw something hopeful from the war. “This could be a really powerful music video,” Comeau said they considered of the project, which premiered online Tuesday. Read more: Russia’s large-scale offensive in eastern Ukraine has begun, officials say “(We) started to think, ‘Maybe we can use the song.
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