Kellie Pickler photo by Tony Baker, courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

Music and love have both been hailed as a universal language, but Kellie Pickler discovered there’s one more: tag.

That’s right, the kids game. And Kellie discovered that when her nine-year-old brother, Eric, tagged along at the video shoot for “Didn’t You Know How Much I Loved You,” which took place in the Dominican Republic.

“There were two little boys there,” she recalls. “One was French, and the other was Spanish, and they could not understand a word each other was saying. And the most beautiful thing I think I’ve ever seen: I saw them tryin’ to communicate, but there was that communication barrier there, and Eric finally just ran up to me, he’s like, ‘Sissy, I want to play with them, but they can’t understand me.’ And I went, ‘You’ll figure out a way to communicate with them.’”

Sure enough, he did. He tagged one of the other boys and said, “You’re it!” Eric took off running, and the other kids started chasing him. They ended up using a tree as the home base for their game, and they spent much of the day playing.

“They were talkin’ to each other in each other’s languages, and they didn’t know what they were saying,” she notes. “So finally, like, they’d just take each other’s hands and pull ‘em in whatever direction they wanted to go. You know, like, ‘Come see this,’ and play. It was so beautiful. That just goes to show you that there should be nothing that separates us as human beings. There should never be a barrier. There should never be a wall there.”

Oddly enough, separation in a personal relationship is a theme in “Didn’t You Know Much I Loved You,” which has done quite well for Kellie. The video is currently at No. 4 on GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown.

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