OK Go interviews each other about their first Grammy nomination for best music video for “Love” since their win in 2006 for their viral video “Here It Goes Again,” how they feel about using AI in their music videos and more.
Damian Kulash
Hey, Billboard, we’re OK Go and we are about to interview each other. Let’s see how this goes.
Tom Nordwind
Okay. Damien, friend of mine, since we were 11 years old, let’s take a walk down memory lane. We’ve won our first Grammy for here it goes again. It’s a milestone for us. What do you remember most about that time in our lives? Where were we at?
Damian Kulash
I remember we were ending an album cycle. Yes, we thought we were about to go write and record our next album. We were playing at a festival in Moscow. When it when it when it went online, we thought like maybe 50 of our fans were going to download it that day and pass it to some other fans, and that would kind of be it. The next week, the album was back to the top of the charts again, and we started touring all over again. It was a whole another 18 month album cycle.
Tom Nordwind
I remember we were supposed to go home to Los Angeles after the festival in Moscow, we got redirected to New York, and then we didn’t go home for another year and a half.
Damian Kulash
Yeah, it was intense. It was exciting. It really was like, it felt like the kind of anything can happen. Moment, you know, like one one weird thing connects, and all of a sudden your life is different.
Tom Nordwind
Yeah, I remember also thinking, it’s pretty cool that that video, which is just like us, kind of doing what we do as friends normally dance on treadmills. Dance on treadmills, you know, but just make fun things together, like, resonated, yeah.
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