MARTIN: But that was on purpose, right? Like, there were pinatas and bags of balls, and it looked, like, intentional. And then on top of that, there would be, like, suitcases tumbling out and disco balls tumbling out. So the overhead bins were always flapping around like sort of a demented, like, Loch Ness monster in the black of the plane. And then there's no gravity, and they pop open. KULASH: That don't pop open when there's no gravity.
SIE: So we had to have really easy-release overhead bins. So you can't grab things and yank on them 'cause you'd just fly in the opposite direction. And it's surprisingly difficult to build fake overhead bins, especially ones that, you know, you can open really easily - because when you're floating around, you don't have any traction, obviously. But we're actually inside a very heavy-duty, industrial, like, cargo plane. We wanted it to look like a real passenger plane. SIE: So the overhead bins - this is not a real passenger plane. SIE: Yeah and more - things that couldn't go wrong did. KULASH: All those things that could go wrong did. Did just nothing - it all went according to plan? So there are all kinds of things that could have gone wrong though, I imagine. And we seem to be weightless the entire time. So the final video you see is all one take. And every time we landed, we stayed perfectly still for the five minutes in between while the plane is setting up so that we could just continue the routine where we had left off.
#No gravity song series
So what we did was we did a series of eight of those in a row. And for about 30 seconds, you feel like there's no gravity. Basically, the plane throws you up into the air and catches you. What we did is we went on those parabolic flights, which people like to call the vomit comet. MARTIN: (Laughter) And shenanigans ensue. KULASH: We're in a plane, and there is no gravity. MARTIN: So I'm going to ask you, Damian, if you don't mind, describe the video.
They join us now from our studios at NPR West in Culver City. MARTIN: It was directed by lead singer Damian Kulash and his sister Trish Sie. OK GO: (Singing) I wish I had said the things you thought that I had said. Their most recent video, for the very appropriately titled song "Upside Down And Inside Out," was filmed in zero gravity. MARTIN: If when you hear a song by OK Go you conjure up thoughts of a gigantic Rube Goldberg device or treadmills or drones or perfectly executed dance routines, then you know that this is a band that is masterful at coming up with amazingly creative music videos. OK GO: (Singing) Upside down and inside out and you can feel it. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "UPSIDE DOWN AND INSIDE OUT")
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