Kick-Ass Music Video Made in a Chevy Sonic
Ever wanted to make music with your car? Well, here’s a seriously cool music video made entirely in a Chevy Sonic in partnership with Chevrolet.
OK Go, and their team set up over 1,000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles, and we are completely blown away by the technical aspects it took to put this jam together. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the various instruments, and the band recorded their version of “Needing/Getting,” while singing and playing musical instruments behind the wheel. The video took 4 months of preparation and 4 days of shooting and recording which required the band to break down each part of the song, record each segment, and then piece and mix the song back together.
If it sounds time-consuming that’s because it was. There are no ringers or stand-ins. One of the members, Damian, even took stunt driving lessons. Each piano had the lowest octaves tuned to the same note so that they’d play the right note no matter where they were struck.
“It consumed my whole life for four months,” Kulash, Jr. said. “We were out in the desert until midnight every day. I don’t even remember having a life outside of that. It was such a surreal world. Everyone who came out to help for a day or two was like ‘I can’t believe you built such an insane wonderland in the desert.'”
Creating the world’s first musical racetrack and world’s first song performed and recorded by a car is one of the best things we have seen in a really long time.