# Brad Paisley Says Russian Bots Fueled Backlash to Ukraine Song “Same Here”

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/brad-paisley-says-russian-bots-fueled-backlash-to-ukraine-song-same-here/
- Published: 2026-10-28T18:25:42+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-28T19:42:09+00:00
- Original publisher: Consequence
- Original article: https://consequence.net/2026/10/brad-paisley-russian-bots-same-here-ukraine/
- Topics: Entertainment, Europe, Music, World

## Key points

- Paisley says Russian bots helped turn online reaction against “Same Here”.
- The song features audio from a conversation with Zelensky.
- Paisley says the backlash did not change his convictions.

## Summary

Brad Paisley says online reaction to his 2023 song “Same Here”, which expressed solidarity with Ukraine, shifted from strongly positive to largely negative after Russian bots and accounts posing as Americans began criticising it. He says the change surprised him, but the backlash did not alter his views or regret his decision to make the song.

Paisley said his team tracked approval falling from 98 per cent to 90 per cent negative, while people in Ukraine also monitored the accounts’ origins. Written with Lee Thomas Miller and Taylor Goldsmith, the song focuses on common ground across borders and includes part of a conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Paisley later performed it in Kyiv and became an ambassador for the United24 fundraising platform.

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