Here’s a wonderful meditation from Salon on the band OK Go and their latest delight (as well as art, joy, simplicity, and other things). Here’s how it begins:
Every couple of years, the mercilessly catchy pop band OK Go comes up with another charming, low-tech video that makes pretty much any Hollywood musical made in the last 30 years look lame. Their latest, “White Knuckles,” which pairs the musicians with an array of trained dogs, is another classic of playful choreography, different from but equal to their other wonderful work. It starts like all their other videos: with the performers standing stock-still, waiting for the music to start. Then they dance. And that’s all there is to it — unless you count the elaborate stacking and unstacking of transparent wastebaskets and the impeccably timed entrances and exits of pooch after pooch, some climbing or jumping on the musicians, others leaping onto chairs and being wheeled through the shot, yet another bounding through a pile of wastebaskets and seeming to hurl itself right into the lens.
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Did y'all catch the goat appearing at the 2:51 mark? There has to be some serious theology here– the goat didn't cooperate very well, by the way. Maybe that goat represents our sin nature (flesh)? While all the dogs were "in the Spirit"??
This video helped me through an otherwise unusually difficult Monday. Thanks, Stampdawg.
Yes, I loved the goat. You've got a good eye, Fisherman — and yes the goat is the only animal that is being uncooperative — much to the dismay of the OK Go guy.
I also like the moment early on where the three guys form a little Doo-Wop chorus behind the transparent containers, leaning their heads out as a team.
I also like the song.
Trinitarian moment, perhaps? Three dogs take the stage after the three man Doo-Wop moment. People are like dogs, or, dogs are like people??? Also note that the rebellious goat was behind the highly disciplined German Shepard.
ha! so great. they've outdone themselves again. too bad the song isn't as catchy as "this too shall pass". but still… these guys bring some serious joy to their work.
Cause nothin' doesn't ever change
But nothing changes much