I think it’s the safety glasses, he seems to be slightly crouched so he’s not so tall and his hair/beard looks a bit darker. I looked at past videos and he doesn’t look particularly overweight in those.
Snooooopy:
I’m imagining one of the members sitting at the next band meeting. He’s crossing his fingers and repeatedly saying, “Uncomplicated performance clip! Just four guys and some instruments. Please, uncomplicated performance clip!” And then the lead singer strolls in and says, “All right, our next video will have 50 trained elephants, a guy who juggles chainsaws, and we film on the surface of Mars. Plus, one of us will be clinically dead for about 30 seconds, but I know a guy who can revive people, like, half the time. Who’s with me?”
I happened to come across this video . It’s from back in 2009 when they apparently had a budget of about seventy-five dollars to make a video. But it shows that even without any over-the-top effects, they can still be creative.
That was actually from 2005.
“A Million Ways” is a song by rock band OK Go from their album Oh No. It was the first song from the album to be released as a single and became the band’s breakthrough song because the accompanying music video went viral on the Internet.
A low-budget, homemade music video for the song was made in April or May 2005[1] showing the band in Damian Kulash’s backyard, performing a dance routine choreographed by Kulash’s sister, Trish Sie. The song’s vocals are lip-synced in the video by bassist Tim Nordwind instead of Damian, following the format from the dance choreographed for the song “C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips”, which Tim sings. The footage was not intended to be released as the single’s music video, but it was sent via e-mail to friends of the band and spread around the internet becoming an internet sensation.