OK Go's New Music Video is a Mindfuck...But More Importantly, My Top 5 Music Videos Of All Time

 

Rolling Stone - Past OK Go videos have featured everything from dancing dogs to an extraordinarily complex Rube Goldberg machine, but their latest clip for “The Writing’s on the Wall” is stripped down — relatively speaking. The video — which we’re premiering here today after a sneak peek earlier last week — features the band’s four members moving through a Brooklyn lot, where a series of perspective illusions have been painted and prepared. In one shot, an arcing camera finds bassist Tim Nordwind’s face in a pile of trash; in another, the song’s title appears in real writing that forms what is revealed to be a fake wall. Everything you see is actually a trick of the eye. Taking nearly three weeks to assemble and 50 takes to get right, the video attempts to add motion to the geometric paintings of artists like Felice Varini and Dan Tobin-Smith (who designed the cover of Jay Z’s Blueprint 3) while remaining true to the track that inspired it, a pre-break-up report from a relationship in which two people keep seeing things in different ways. The connection becomes explicit during the bridge, when a rolling camera deciphers a message that reads, “I think I understand you, but I don’t.”

 
I’m not really sure if music videos are relevant (or if OK Go have fans) but they make awesome music videos time after time. This one basically gave me a headache. Whoever designed it and filmed it is probably the most talented person on Earth, right? I just don’t get how people think of things like that.

But more importantly, my top 5 favorite videos of all time. Kinda a combo of best videos with my favorites. And I’m not talking Michael Jackson’s Thriller, I’m talking TRL stuff. Videos Carson Daly gave to me.

 
5) If you’re anything like me, Enema of the State pretty much changed your life and is partly the reason you’re a blogger now. Can’t thank Blink 182 enough.

 

 

4) Just a cool ass video. Korn was during that angry time when Linkin Park and POD and the like were getting mainstream play.

 

 

3) You can still legit pop happy snakes watching these videos.

 

2) Middle school was a confusing time. This video didn’t help. I remember my friends and I sitting around discussing if girls actually wore thongs. To be honest, I’m still not sure what the answer is.

 

 

1) I’ve said it once, I’ve said it twice, I’ve said it a million times, I’ll say it a trillion times, the fact they never made a N64 game of this video is the biggest travesty of all time.