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I know, I know; I just posted about Plain White T's. But they are just featured on lots of things in the last little while. First off, CNN conducted an interview with Tom Higgenson, the group's lead singer. They talked about the new video, the interactive feature, and a little behind the scenes stuff about the band and this singer.
Next, it looks like their new album Big Bad World is being featured today only for only $2.99. With as much as I’ve been saying about them, especially comparatively…well, you’d think I like them a lot more than I do. But in addition to “1,2,3,4” I also suggest listening to “That Girl” (do-do-do, ba-ba-ba, oh-oh-oh, la-la-la), and “Someday.” Come on, it’s 2.99!
With that said, I do want to say that I hope to soon find the time and the means to start adding some serious content—like features and articles rather than update posts. Hopefully soon!
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Friday, January 16, 2009
1, 2, 3, 4
Plain White T's released their new video for their single "1, 2, 3, 4" today on their Myspace page.
"1, 2, 3, 4" was featured on "The Songs in My Head" of Summer Songs 2008.
Check out this video—it has a very personable and real feel, as was intended by the artist. The ending made me like it even more because it lets you know WHY this song was written. That's always one of the things I'm most interested in about specific songs—what were the songwriters thinking, does it really relate how I see it doing, etc. etc.
Here's the introduction from Tom of Plain White T's
A couple weeks ago I was out to lunch with my friend Mike at Portillo's. The Christmas buzz was wearing off and we were throwing around ideas of making a fun, youtube style video for 1,2,3,4. After brainstorming for a while we came up with the idea of heading into Chicago armed only with a camera and a guitar. He would film me breaking out the guitar and playing the song at random locations around the city. The focus however, would be on the people who stopped to watch. The song is a simple love song so we wanted to capture various little love stories throughout Chicago, and feature them in the video. We had no idea how it was gonna turn out- Would anyone even stop at all? Would I get mobbed? Would people give permission to be filmed? Was this even a cool idea? We had no clue what was gonna happen, but the next day we ventured out to do it. We made a pact that we would give it our best shot and just roll with it. Whatever happened we would just edit together and put up online. So we went around the city freezing our butts off (it was 18 degrees outside) following through with the plan and meeting some great people. After about seven hours in the cold we called it a day and drove back to the burbs. I was honestly concerned my ears were gonna fall off, that's how cold I was! Needless to say they didn't, and after a week of editing Mike sent me his first cut of the video. I almost cried. I couldn't believe how perfectly it captured the sentiment of the song. I knew we had something here, so we showed it to the guys in the band, our managers, and our label. They all loved it and now this simple idea we thought of over lunch and filmed the next day is getting all this hype before anyone has even seen it! We made this video for you, for the fans, so enjoy it with love, from the Plain White T's.
-Tom
Check out the video here
"1, 2, 3, 4" was featured on "The Songs in My Head" of Summer Songs 2008.
Check out this video—it has a very personable and real feel, as was intended by the artist. The ending made me like it even more because it lets you know WHY this song was written. That's always one of the things I'm most interested in about specific songs—what were the songwriters thinking, does it really relate how I see it doing, etc. etc.
Here's the introduction from Tom of Plain White T's
A couple weeks ago I was out to lunch with my friend Mike at Portillo's. The Christmas buzz was wearing off and we were throwing around ideas of making a fun, youtube style video for 1,2,3,4. After brainstorming for a while we came up with the idea of heading into Chicago armed only with a camera and a guitar. He would film me breaking out the guitar and playing the song at random locations around the city. The focus however, would be on the people who stopped to watch. The song is a simple love song so we wanted to capture various little love stories throughout Chicago, and feature them in the video. We had no idea how it was gonna turn out- Would anyone even stop at all? Would I get mobbed? Would people give permission to be filmed? Was this even a cool idea? We had no clue what was gonna happen, but the next day we ventured out to do it. We made a pact that we would give it our best shot and just roll with it. Whatever happened we would just edit together and put up online. So we went around the city freezing our butts off (it was 18 degrees outside) following through with the plan and meeting some great people. After about seven hours in the cold we called it a day and drove back to the burbs. I was honestly concerned my ears were gonna fall off, that's how cold I was! Needless to say they didn't, and after a week of editing Mike sent me his first cut of the video. I almost cried. I couldn't believe how perfectly it captured the sentiment of the song. I knew we had something here, so we showed it to the guys in the band, our managers, and our label. They all loved it and now this simple idea we thought of over lunch and filmed the next day is getting all this hype before anyone has even seen it! We made this video for you, for the fans, so enjoy it with love, from the Plain White T's.
-Tom
Check out the video here
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