A record of Chart Topping Hands-on Music Video
It is fairly clear from all the embedded music videos and song-reference-titled posts that John and I are music lovers. John even mentioned that he sings a lot in this post and we all know that I was a wee bit enamored with a certain rapper in my youth (an obsession that drove me to say the word “phat” on national TV). So when a musician friend here in Richmond casually invited us into their studio to mess around… well something magical happened. One thing led to another, and we ended up pouring all of our Hands-on passion into a DIYed song for you folks. Full of life lessons, house trials and tribulations, design rules that we follow (and break), and all sorts of other home-related musings – all set to a phat sweet beat of course.
We are hardly Big & Pac, but now that we got the edited version of our song back from the studio (ahh!!) we are officially dropping our first single, which we have entitled: Hush.
So without further ado, our especially professional all-that is-missing-is-P-Diddy-and-a-helicopter video:
In case you are at work and you cannot watch it, let us simply say it is worth a play when you get home. Here is what you have to look forward to:
- My hair’s down
- There are some fairly decent special effects (three $herdogs)
- Burger and Clara each make a cameo
- Ceramic animals abound
- Shelves get styled
- We remind people about the importance of safety glasses
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Okay, so we did not truly record anything in a studio. We simply made a fake-o forty second song at home where we rapped a few sentences into our computer’s microphone and used some stock vocal effects in Final Cut Pro along with a free beat that we found online. Then we paired it with a cliche-tastic video that we whipped up at home and bam… our first single. But it is still worth watching later if you are at work right now. I mean, how many rappers drop the words “miter saw” in their verse? In summary: it was more lively than two 31-year-olds should have. And of all the years that we have maintained our little April Fool’s tradition – can you believe this is our fifth year of this?! – this one’s one of our go-tos (here is last years, the one from 2011, the one from 2010, and the one from 2009).
Hope you folks fell for it – although I am 99% sure you did not.
