We’re extra selective today about how we use the phrase “meta,” however with regards to OK Go’s newest launch, the band has created—bear with us right here—a music video utilizing telephones about movies made with telephones.
Recognized for elaborately choreographed music movies that carry pop songs to life by way of playful, chromatic, even gravity-defying stunts, OK Go (beforehand) continues to push the boundaries of the style. The group’s tune “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill,” which premiered final Thursday, encompasses a mindbogglingly advanced composition utilizing 64 smartphones to report and transmit a joyful efficiency.
The band is at the moment composed of Damian Kulash, Tim Nordwind, Dan Konopka, and Andy Ross, who relish the inventive potential of the music video style. Tapping into a novel fashion of filmic continuity utilizing cut up screens and meticulously-planned set transitions, the band defies the notion that music movies are a factor of the previous.
For “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill,” every telephone captured one distinctive take, which needed to be fastidiously deliberate upfront. All 64 movies have been filmed in barely totally different sequences or at totally different angles, in some instances capturing extra telephones within the band’s arms that displayed colour blocks or patterns.
In a exceptional feat, the ultimate video information the playback on the telephones, organized on a easy concrete floor, choreographed to mirror an more and more elaborate efficiency. See the video on the band’s YouTube channel, the place you’ll be able to dance alongside to dozens extra.
