Karmin's ACAPELLA Music Video Shoot!

Karmin's ACAPELLA Music Video Shoot!
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Young Hollywood is behind the scenes of the music video for Karmin's single "Acapella", and we catch up with the dynamic duo themselves, Amy Heidemann and Nick Noonan, to get the scoop on the colorful visual concept and what to expect from their next album -- find out their secret weapon to achieving the sound they were looking for! Hosted by Audrey Cleo
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Hey guys, Audrey Cleo here, hanging out behind the scenes on the set of Carmen's new music video. Oh yeah. Hey, can I match this? Used to be a baby, used to be a lady. You thought you were a perfect lover. All the harmony went falling out of key, so now you got to find another. Hey, look who I found.
Hey.
Hey, what did you find?
Hi. I'm Amy.
I got to say I'm super impressed by your moves.
Are you serious?
Yeah, I am. Like the little like
You must not be familiar with good moves.
Oh, no. I mean, I know good moves. Like the whole like drive like the drive your car. That's That's that's what I call it. You know the going shopping, pick it up, put it high up, pick it up. Uh the your desk, the head clipper, yeah. Head clipper. You know what I'm saying? You're going in and out. You're looking very green. I like it.
Thank you. I like it.
Can we get a little like model pose, like, yes. There you go. Work it. Work it. Work it. Now, these are mom jeans. They're sexy mom jeans from American Apparel. They're really great. They're actually really comfortable too. But it gets a little strange when they get this high. This, I mean, you make them look good. So you're
Thank you.
You're working it. How awesome is this? You guys have got the backup dancers going. The colorful outfits. You've got the bling. You've got the the bread chain.
Oh yeah, we're it's going all out for this music video. You have everything. So many new things about this. And I think my hair is different too. And I think the sound is is evolved a little bit for Carmen. So we decided to put all of our chips in for this for this video.
Now, Amy was telling me in this new album, you'll actually be singing. His voice is really incredible, so I can't wait for everyone to hear.
This is interesting. I will actually be singing with my mouth this time, unlike the last album where I'm just kidding. Yeah, I'm going to be There is a lot more of me on the whole album. It's way more of kind of a duo feel. There's still a lot of rapping. And another thing is that I know Nick did a lot of production on this album. So you're going to get a little bit more technically a little bit more Carmen than last time. It's definitely a little bit more a lot more dangerous sounding.
Dangerous. How so?
Kind of everybody knows us for Brokenhearted, which we wrote and we love, but it's definitely a little bit it's way less safe than that. You can hear a lot of that from the first single, which is Acapella.
How much of it is actually acapella?
The weird thing about it is it's all ro No, I'm kidding. It is It is 90% human voices, I think, was what we calculated in our laboratory. Um
In your mouth problem?
Yes. About 10% of it is, you know, 808s and and kick drums and and snares. And the other funny thing about it was a lot of it was done on iPhones. Really? For some reason, the microphone was so crunchy. It was like the perfect sound we needed. So we imported a bunch of stuff from our iPhones.
Have you guys ever done that before?
Uh, yes. Okay. As you know, you know, we started on YouTube, so we were working on a program called GarageBand, which is free on every Mac. I mean, it's real basic stuff, but sometimes that's the best.
Speaking of YouTube, where it all started, right? Became a YouTube sensation. And now fast forward, you got backup dancers.
Yeah, no, it's it's it doesn't really make any sense. It's just kind of kind of boggles the mind. You can literally, I mean, like you're saying, literally three years ago or even two years ago, we were doing absolutely nothing. I was working at a boxing club in Boston. I think there were a few days in the past where we would wake up and be like, is this really happening? Like, this is our job right now? Um, but we're just we're starting to feel really comfortable. And I think that's an exciting point for us and shout out to the fans. Thank you for your support. Yeah. They're the reason that we we're here. So we're now we're sort of like, let's do something amazing. To all the all the Carmen fans, all the Carmenites, uh, we love you guys. You guys are the reason why we're here and um, we can't wait for you to see the video. So much love.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Amy Heidemann
Member of Karmin, interviewed
- Nick Noonan
Member of Karmin, interviewed
- Audrey Cleo
Host of the segment
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