- 2025-01-17
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MUSIC
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OK Go Premieres New Song “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill” on The Kelly Clarkson Show
Los Angeles-based rock band OK Go, consisting of Damian Kulash (vocals/rhythm guitar), Tim Nordwind (bass), Dan Konopka (drums) and Andy Ross (lead guitar), premiered a new song “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill” on The Kelly Clarkson Show.
The song is the fist single off of their upcoming fifth studio album “And the Adjacent Possible”, which is expected to be released later this year.
The track was written by Damian Kulash, Jr., and produced by OK Go, and Dave Fridmann.
Th band frontman Damian Kulash said of the song, “It’s a tough time to be optimistic. Getting through life requires some faith along the lines of the famous MLK quote: 'The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.' But looking at the world unfurling before me, and especially before my children, it’s hard to find that kind of faith. What do we tell them? That’s what this song is about: trying to be honest but keeping your head up at the same time.”- The accompanying music video was directed by Damian Kulash and Chris Buongiorno.
The video features 64 videos on 64 phones laid out as a moving mosaic. The band did more than a thousand takes over the course of eight days, and the final video crams over two hours and twenty minutes of single-take clips into one frame.
The clip showcases the band’s unbridled creativity and signature DIY aesthetic, while exploring the song’s lyrical take on modern split screen life. -
Damian Kulash said of the video, “Trying to balance the anxiety (which is just realism) with the hope (which is just necessary) can often feel like living in a split screen, and that’s what inspired the video. It’s the most human, DIY version of a split screen that we could come up with. Instead of using digital wizardry to glue multiple videos together, we shot one video for each of several dozen phones and laid them out, side-by-side, as a mosaic of screens. A single image emerges from all these separate pieces working sometimes in harmony and sometimes in discord — the many contradictory parts of ourselves fighting to coalesce as a single whole.”
Photo by Piper Ferguson - source : The Kelly Clarkson Show.
