A new video for "Love Song to the Earth," featuring a star-studded lineup of Paul McCartney, Natasha Bedingfield, Colbie Caillat and Sean Paul, was recorded just ahead of the Paris Climate Change Conferences and Pathway to Paris. The lyrics video was released to the public back in September and now for the latest video, The Beatles alumni holds most of the focus for the track aiming to save our planet and prevent greenhouse gas emissions.
The Trey Fanjoy-directed video saw its debut during the COP21 conference earlier this month, premiering in front of world leaders like UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-mon. McCartney belts his specific verses while staring across the wide ocean and shuffling down the beach. Along with the celebrity footage, breathtaking nature scenes are spliced into the video from award-winning cinematographer Louis Schwartzberg, responsible for Netflix series Moving Art.
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"I'm glad to be a part of 'Love Song to the Earth,' aiming to inspire people across the world to urge their leaders to act on climate change," McCartney explained in a statement just ahead of the Paris climate talks, Rolling Stone reports. "We need to be fast and efficient, switching to renewable energy and eating less meat, for example. Big decisions will be made this week, so I am doing everything I can to make sure governments sign up to an agreement, which can protect our planet. Now is the time to act. So please spread the woes and help keep our planet safe!"
"Love Song to the Earth," was written by John Shanks, Bedingfield, Paul and Toby Gad, also offering the talents of Victoria Justice, Nicole Scherzinger, Angelique Kidjo, Krewella, Kelsea Ballerini, Sheryl Crow, Jon Bon Jovi, Goo Goo Dolls' Johnny Rzeznik, Fergie and Sheryl Crow, NME notes.
"We wanted to create a song to unify voices in a positive uplifting chorus to support the world's leaders as they gather in Paris this December," The song's executive director Jerry Cope told Rolling Stone in September. "We wanted to finally forge a binding ambitious global climate treaty to address carbon emissions and anthropogenic [effects] that is resulting from human behavior climate change."
Paul McCartney has also been working hard in an effort to get humans to give up meat for "Meat Free Mondays." If Mondays don't work out too well, the singer admits any day of the week will do just fine.
