# OkGo has a new video **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [January 16, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043 "2025-01-16T15:24:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/1 "2025-01-16T15:24:37Z")
It doesn’t look like it’s a “one take” but a decent song. > **[OK Go - A Stone Only Rolls Downhill (Official Video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOEULOSVNK4%2F)** > > Get this song: https://sym.ffm.to/astoneonlyrollsdownhill.And all things OK Go: https://linktr.ee/okgomusicCredits:Directors:Damian KulashChris Buongiorno E... ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/2 "2025-01-16T15:35:31Z")
Neat! I liked it! ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/3 "2025-01-16T15:36:22Z")
It must be exhausting for the band to have to try to top, or at least match in creativity and innovation, each previous video effort. This one at least must have been easier on the creators because it looks like much of it was put together digitally, as opposed to the 100% practical effects I believe they always previously used. Still, at the end of that video it says “This video exists because of the amazing efforts of”…followed by a scrolling list of what looked like around _ **500 names** _. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/4 "2025-01-16T15:37:04Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Neat! I liked it! - So did I but it did feel like they were just phoning it in. :deadpan: ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/5 "2025-01-16T15:39:04Z")
iLaughed. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/6 "2025-01-16T15:39:44Z")
> [@solost](#): > > This one at least must have been easier on the creators because it looks like much of it was put together digitally, as opposed to the 100% practical effects I believe they always previously used. It would be disappointing if they just did it digitally. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/7 "2025-01-16T15:46:29Z")
I had the same thought…but at the end it says “Thanks to the members of PGO” which is their fan club. So I think that’s just the “people who paid to get their name on this screen” list. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/8 "2025-01-16T15:52:59Z")
That was exhausting to watch (in a good way!). In terms of mind-blowing, “how did they pull _that_ off,” however, I’m still in awe of [“Needing/Getting.”](https://youtu.be/MejbOFk7H6c?si=chhxTAKhnpIZe6U8) ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/9 "2025-01-16T15:53:18Z")
They are geniuses ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/10 "2025-01-16T16:01:47Z")
I saw Ok GO about a million years ago when they opened for They Might Be Giants. This was before they released all their amazingly creative videos, and even then I could tell they were on a level above the typical band of that era. I might still have the EP I bought after their show. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/11 "2025-01-16T16:04:39Z")
Reminds me of this: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/z0t0P5D3qLc/hqdefault.jpg "Mythic Quest Quarantine Special - S01E10 - Fuck You, Coronavirus") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0t0P5D3qLc) ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/12 "2025-01-16T16:17:24Z")
Ah, ok, thanks for the clarification…that did seem like an awful lot of people to _actively_ be involved in making the video-- even for an OkGo video. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/13 "2025-01-16T16:57:48Z")
Wow. Thanks, @running_coach! ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/14 "2025-01-16T17:24:43Z")
If anyone is interested, they just announced a tour: > **[Shows](https://okgo.net/shows/)** > > OK Go is a band. They like to make stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/15 "2025-01-17T22:02:46Z")
It seems to me that the hardest part would be designing it all, and that’d be equally easy whether it was “practical” effects (to the extent that recording a video of another screen counts as a practical effect) or digital. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/16 "2025-01-18T01:12:33Z")
I think in the future, OKGo will be recognized as one of the all time video creators ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/17 "2025-01-18T01:56:20Z")
Another very cool video by OK Go. > [@RitterSport](#): > > It would be disappointing if they just did it digitally. Nope. They didn’t just let computers put this together for them. > **[PMI Behind the Scenes: The OK Go Project](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY7hI-mPqr8%2F)** > > How do you create a viral music video? No one knows better than @okgo. The secret isn’t just talent—it’s teamwork and, of course, flawless project managemen... ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/18 "2025-01-18T14:47:11Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > I think in the future, OKGo will be recognized as one of the all time video creators I think that’s the case right now. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/19 "2025-01-20T12:35:57Z")
Very cool. It would have been really out of character for them to do anything the easy way. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043/20 "2025-01-20T20:35:41Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I think that’s the case right now. I probably didn’t word this well. You can be respected now and disappear in a few years. I’m betting there will be scholarly theses written about their work after they’re gone. Actually on googling, I see that many teachers are using their videos for illustrating science and inspiring scholarly article now, although I didn’t see one on actual video production [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okgo-has-a-new-video/1013043.md?page=2)