OK Go's Music Video Masterpiece

Welcome to Young Hollywood. com. I'm Damian. I'm Andy. I'm Tim. And I'm Dan. We're okay, go. And you are here on the set of our new video, This Too Shall Pass. Thanks for watching, Young Hollywood.

Okay, what's up Young Hollywood? I'm Phat and you know we're on set of what appears to be Andy Warhol's wet dream, but in fact, it is Okay Go's new music video, This Too Shall Pass. So we want to talk to you fine gentlemen and figure out how conceptually did you come up with this idea?

Yeah, we've been thinking about this video for about a year. It's sort of like what you were saying, wet dream, it's kind of our wet dream. It's just like, it's like this like geek Valhalla, you know, I I've always been obsessed with Rube Goldberg machines. They're like the, you know, chain reaction machines where the dominoes hit the ball, hits the mouse trap kind of thing. So we we finally got the team together to do this. We've spent four months in here building this machine with people from Sin Labs and Mind J Labs and uh it's awesome. I mean, like I I've been here 24 hours a day for two weeks. You can tell I've lost my voice working on this thing, but I've had, I've never had so much fun in my life. It's amazing.

Oh, that's great. No, I was wondering like how the emotions are because you really do have this very hands-on approach and you know if the thing if something's like slightly off by even a hair's width, it won't tip the next mechanism. Like, how how are you dealing with that?

Everyone really cares about this machine, so I mean, you can tell it no one gets frustrated. They just all they want to do is get it right. I think, you know, most people have sort of thought about videos traditionally over the last like 30 years as advertisements. And so the band walks in the last minute sort of the way you roll a Toyota into the Toyota commercial, you know? And uh, we look at this as like part of our art, you know? So we wouldn't dream of doing this if we weren't actually making the machine with the people, you know. We're we're not the engineers. Like there there are people here who who work on on the Mars rover, you know? I think the spirit would be a lot different if if we weren't actually here and enjoying ourselves and making this as a team, you know? I mean, there's nobody, things go, we we expect things to go wrong. That's the whole point. Is like this these these like very like these tiny little, Beyond even that, we have to have each of those things line up to a beat in the song. So it's, I mean, this is is a really ambitious project. When things go right, you kind of want to cry. Like, you're just like so psyched for everyone here. Incredibly, incredibly dangerous. Like, there are ovens that fall from the ceiling, and there are pianos that fall from the ceiling, and and giant barrels and like things that get crushed by sledge hammers. And it's nice because it sort of gives this like every, I don't know, half-hour, two hours maybe sometimes there's someone's like, No, that's not. And you can see like someone saving someone else's life. It's like a party. It's like a big nerd party.

I even think I saw a boxing Jesus statue. I could be wrong, but.

Yeah, that's that's a fighting Jesus over there. All right. Uh correction, it's either one of the wise men or Joseph. My guess is he's overlooking Jesus, but he does kind of have a, I mean, it's it's he's saintly. He's got flowers in his boxing gloves and he rises to cause the sun to rise during the chorus when I sing, when the moment comes.

I think it's safe to say he's got Jesus's back.

Absolutely, we all do. Well, actually, not all of us. Some are atheist. But anyway, we really appreciate you guys having us out here. It's very impressive. I have to tip my hat to you guys. We roll? All right. So we start outside. Tim's got the truck in his hand. He knocks the truck into the dominoes. The dominoes spread out, spread back in, and they climb up the videotape. They fall into the books. That knocks down the pull, pull ball. Pull ball goes flying down over here, hits the finger on top of the iPod. iPod sends a speaker going, which sends a big metal marble into the funnel. Funnel down into the soup spoon. Soup spoon's down into the uh, ball track. Ball track. Ooh, down into the ball and into the golf, golf, golf starts up here. Starts the steak iron thing from rolling. I mean, rolling in the maybe both roll at the same time. I am falls over here, picking the ball up in the forest. Down the ball track. Ball track knocks the uh spinny arm. Spinny arm knocks the base. Base knocks the funnel which releases the catapult. Catapult hits the trash can. Trash can hits the tire. Tire goes flying down, turns on all the lights. Turns on the big air machines. Then knocks down the hammer. Hammer starts the fan because it's actually electrified. Fan hits the uh umbrella. Umbrella hits the logo which falls over. Releasing the tea pot. Tea pot starts the LEGO area. Area of LEGO's, let's go. Dan. And then that hits the uh, weight. The weight falls off here, springs over there, and the rest of the video continues. Hey guys, thanks for visiting. Once again, we're Okay Go. We had a great time, Young Hollywood. See you next time.