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Brad Paisley wrote a complete song for the new season of ‘South Park,’ a proud anthem titled “We Are South America.” Jason Kempin/Getty Images When South Park, the irreverent, long-running animated series, returned for its 29th season last month, it did so under a new name: South America. “Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of South Park to South America,” wrote show creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, a not-so-subtle jab at tech giants who have capitulated to the current administration’s calls to change the names of bodies of water and even states to something pro-American.
Courtesy of Brad Paisley, the citizens of South America also got their own theme song, a proud yet ignorant anthem titled “We Are South America.” Paisley, who appeared as his animated self in a 2012 episode of South Park, tells Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast how it happened.
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“I got a call from their producer, a good friend of mine named Frank [C. Agnone II],” Paisley recalls. “He said, ‘We may need an anthem.’ I said, ‘Deal. I’m up for the challenge. What do you need?’ And they said, ‘Do you want to write a theme for South America?’”
Paisley was on board but only had a few days to write and record the song. “This is how they run things. Six days to air. So, I started writing,” he says. “I come running down here, and I sang what he wanted and printed it out and sent it to them 15 minutes later. That’s really fun, that guerilla style: get in there, hammer this thing out.”
But the country singer-guitarist didn’t only write what fans heard in the season premiere — he wrote an entire song, which according to him will ultimately see the light of day
“There are verses you haven’t heard yet. The whole thing will come out eventually,” Paisley says. “By the end of the season, we’ll put the single out.”
Paisley says Parker and Stone came to one of his concerts a few years ago at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. “I think they’re genius,” he says. “Everything they do, it never lands flat.”
