“Change the World” by P.O.D.

"Change the World" was the second single from P.O.D.'s Payable on Death, released by Atlantic in February 2004, and singer Sonny Sandoval never pretended it was complicated: he called it a feel-good song whose whole message is that love can change the world. Howard Benson produced it with the band, Mike Plotnikoff engineered, Rich Costey mixed, and the writing credit is split between Sandoval, Traa Daniels, Jason Truby and Noah "Wuv" Bernardo.

Marc Webb, who had shot the band's previous three videos, took that message of global peace around the world, filming in more than 40 countries and, as Sandoval told it, handing strangers on the streets of Jerusalem signs that read "Change" and "The World". Then a shake-up at Atlantic left the band without label support, and the video never went out to MTV.

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