Feb 6, 2012 2
The Time OK Go Faked a Music Video (Or So I Thought)
I could probably have an OK Go category here on my blog, I post about them often enough. But I don’t. In February of 2012, the band released a new video on YouTube that was created in partnership with Chevrolet for a SuperBowl ad. It doesn’t need to be said, but it’s a great video. Fantastic concept, really well executed. My two-and-a-half year old watched it three times with me before breakfast. But it was a fake. See for yourself…
Heartbreaking, I know. First off, do you really think they could capture those sounds with those microphones as they passed them? At best, the sounds was beside the mics, at worst, it was behind them. And I don’t care how much furry stuff you’ve got on them, there’s going to be a lot of wind noise at that speed.
Then there was the whole, smacking the pianos thing. No way you’re going to hit the right keys, even if you’ve got the pianos height adjusted. There’s just to much variance in driving and bouncing around. And strumming the guitars at that speed. You’re going to be ripping strings off, that’s what you’re going to be doing. It was nice of them to throw in some faked missed notes and stuff though. I could go on, about other instruments, things that break, vocals, impossible camera shots, etc. But I won’t.
Instead, I’ll humbly admit that I was wrong. This was another legitimate (and brilliant) OK Go performance, and here’s how it was done. For those who don’t want to read the whole article, the video was edited, the sound was massaged (like when a piano or guitar was missed,) and they lip-synched it. But that’s okay.
They drove the course, they modified the car, they smacked keys, strings, bottles, tin and pulled 180′s to play the music with the car. Then like any recording, they fixed things up in the mix. Totally legitimate.
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I’ve been sitting on this video for a few days. I don’t know why, there’s a previously un-heard George Harrison guitar solo hidden in the Here Comes The Sun master tapes. If for some reason you don’t want to watch/listen to the whole thing, it probably won’t matter to you that the lost Beatles guitar solo can be found at the one minute mark of this video. Probably because you won’t even know that it’s not the original. In which case, why are you even here?
