Brad Paisley talked to GAC about his latest single.

I just wanted to capture this struggle a little bit between men and women in a playful way, which is 'Why don't you get a little cosmopolitan here and feminize up for me just a bit?' [laughs] We're fighting that every step of the way, some of us guys, and ironically in talking to the radio guys . . . they say the majority of the calls for it come from women, and I think the same thing happened with 'I'm Gonna Miss Her.' These women want their men to hear it, and by golly, that is the best way to get a man to hear something is to play it for their significant other. They're gonna be forced to listen to it. It's got that nudge-your-partner-with-your-elbow factor to it.

Listen to the song here.


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When we sat down with Josh Gracin to talk about his new album, 'We Weren't Crazy,' the conversation drifted to the war in Iraq. Gracin, a former Marine, had some pretty strong opinions, especially on how the war is presented in the media. Below is the country star's personal stance on the work of our troops overseas, in his own words.

I was just in Knoxville and did something with a radio station there, WIVK. There's a DJ there named Gunner, and he does this thing with the 49th [Military Police Brigade] from Knoxville. They're stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq right now, and what they are is basically builders . . . And he gets them on satellite phone on the radio and talks to them for like 30 minutes, so their families can hear them talk. So I was talking to them, and hearing about the amazing things that are going on over there. We're talking about schools in places that never had schools; hospitals in places that have never had them; water purification systems. Afganistan and Iraq are being built up by us.

What irks me is that you don't hear about that, you don't see that. And they have internet, they have CNN. They can see what's being talked about, and they're off the front page now unless a soldier dies. You never hear about any good things. It's all political. And my whole take on it is that if people really knew what was going on, then they'd believe the same things I believe.