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6[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Tim Nordwind, Andy Ross, Damian Kulash, Dan Konopka. Not pictured: Andy Duncan.]]
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8 OK Go is an AlternativeRock[=/=]PowerPop band. Originally from Chicago, Illinois and currently based in Los Angeles, California, the band formed in 1998 and have gone from being an also-ran in the [[TurnOfTheMillennium early 2000s]] "Return of Rock" that also spawned Music/TheStrokes and Music/TheWhiteStripes to being internationally famous, which many accredit to their inventive music videos which are often complex, [[TheOner shot in one take]] and on a low budget.
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10Their most recognized song is "Here It Goes Again", whose music video contains the four band members performing a choreographed dance over several sets of treadmills. The video won a MediaNotes/GrammyAward, became one of the biggest viral sensations of the early age of Website/YouTube, and [[Music/HereItGoesAgain has its own page]]. The band's videos have since featured premises like playing a song with a giant [[RubeGoldbergDevice Rube Goldberg machine]] ("This Too Shall Pass"), playing a song by driving a Chevrolet Sonic fitted with extensions through a rally car course lined with musical instruments ("Needing/Getting"), setting up an elaborate series of optical illusions ("The Writing's on the Wall"), performing a song in zero gravity on an airplane in flight ("Upside Down & Inside Out"), and performing a song in 4.2 real-time seconds that were then [[{{Overcrank}} slowed down]] to reveal over 300 distinct events synchronized with the song ("The One Moment").
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12!!The band's albums are:
13* ''OK Go'' (2002)
14* ''Oh No'' (2005)
15* ''Of the Blue Colour of the Sky'' (2010)
16* ''Hungry Ghosts'' (2014)
17
18!!Their videos include:
19* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BxfpbyV-uc&ob=av2e Get Over It]]" (2002)
20* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwpCb0qW-6Y Don't Ask Me]]" (2002)
21* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1_CLW-NNwc&ob=av2e A Million Ways]]" (2005)
22* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mItuZ8i4wH8&ob=av2e Invincible]]" (2006)
23* "Music/HereItGoesAgain" (2006)
24* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i00GDT9FuFM&ob=av2e Do What You Want]]" (2006)
25** An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDEYl9uRNsk alternate video]] for "Do What You Want" was shot before the better known one, largely comprising of footage from their tour.
26* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12zJw9varYE WTF?]]" (2009)
27** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNeItlrTdvY official commentary video]]
28* "This Too Shall Pass" (2010):
29** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJKythlXAIY Marching band version]]
30** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w Rube Goldberg Machine version]]
31* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2fpgpanZAw End Love]]" (2010)
32* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHlJODYBLKs White Knuckles]]" (2010)
33* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkYfB1C0Zgc Last Leaf]]" (2011)
34* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur-y7oOto14 All Is Not Lost]]" (2011)
35* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiMZa8flyYY The Muppet Show Theme]]" (2011)
36* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c Needing/Getting]]" (2012)
37* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb4lgOiHBZo Skyscrapers]]" (2012)
38* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m86ae_e_ptU The Writing's On The Wall]]" (2014)
39* "[[http://www,youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZB_rGFyeU I Won't Let You Down]]" (2014)
40* "[[http://okgo.net/2016/02/11/upside-down-inside-out/ Upside Down and Inside Out]]" (2016)
41* "[[http://okgo.net/2016/11/23/the-one-moment/ The One Moment]]" (2016)
42* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgmxMuW6Fsc Obsession]]" (2017)
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44!!This band provides examples of the following tropes
45
46* AllJustADream: The Muppet Show Theme video is shown to be all just Damian Kulash's nightmare, which was inside of Dr. Teeth's nightmare, which was inside of Tim Nordwind's nightmare.
47* AlternateMusicVideo:
48** "Do What You Want" had a video consisting in tour footage before they released "Version 2 (Wallpaper Background)", which has them and other people singing and dancing while they and their props are all completely covered in the same pattern as the background (and has nearly 5 times as many views).
49** "This Too Shall Pass" has a music video where the members perform live as part of a marching band, and another, released months later, featuring an extremely elaborate RubeGoldbergDevice synced with the song.
50* AntiLoveSong:
51** ''So Damn Hot.'' Though it's not in the "love hurts" vein and more in the "she strings me along, and toys with my emotions, but I'm ok with it because she's sexy" variety. Like a less emotionally wrecked version of Music/{{Miserable}}.
52** ''The Writing's On The Wall'' is somewhere between this and a normal BreakUpSong, addressed from the singer to their lover about how their chemistry has fallen apart, and they want to have one last good time together before separating.
53* BlatantLies: In "Oh Lately It's So Quiet" there's a lyric "I don't think much about you anymore"... even though the entire song is him wondering what his ex is up to.
54* BreakUpSong: "The Writing's On the Wall" is about a couple where the love went out of their relationship because they just don't see eye-to-eye. The video is full of [[DepthDeception optical illusions]], and in the middle is the text: "I think I understand you but I don't."
55* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: Done with Japanese Schoolgirls and Honda [=UNI-CUBs=] (think sit-down Segways) in the video for "I Won't Let You Down".
56* CallBack: One of the sample messages for their [[http://allisnotlo.st interactive video for "All Is Not Lost"]] is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w "Let it go, this too shall pass."]]
57** The "Muppet Show" video features brief call-backs to the videos for "Here It Goes Again", "All Is Not Lost", "This Too Shall Pass", and "White Knuckles", with each one being somehow interrupted by the Muppets.
58* TheCameo: Japanese girl group {{Music/Perfume}} appear in the preamble of the "I Won't Let You Down" video.
59** In return, OK Go makes a brief appearance in Perfume's video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhfYis6VuXY Pick Me Up]]".
60** Both bands collaborate on the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lnm_bBpUKM I Don't Understand You]]".
61* CatapultNightmare: The end of the "Muppet Show" video, no less than three times, each with a different twist.
62* ChangedForTheVideo: The video for "Needing/Getting" chose to forego the standard rock four-piece version of the song for the video, by arranging the song to be performed by a rally car. The car was outfitted with a number of rods, designed to hit pianos, pipes and guitars lined up on the sides of the track.
63* ColorCodedCharacters:
64** "End Love":
65*** Tim: pink
66*** Damian: yellow
67*** Andy: red
68*** Dan: blue
69** "This Too Shall Pass" and "Needing/Getting":
70*** Tim: red
71*** Damian: blue
72*** Dan: green
73*** Andy: yellow
74** "Upside Down & Inside Out":
75*** Tim: pink
76*** Damian: blue
77*** Andy: red
78*** Dan: green
79** The booklet for ''Of The Blue Color Of The Sky''. Each track represents a different color in the various graphs.
80** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu44JRTIxSQ Their whole video for]] ''Series/SesameStreet''. Well it is meant to be teaching kids about the Three Primary Colors.
81** Andy tends to be dressed in red.
82* CommonMeter: "Upside Down & Inside Out" brings to mind Music/{{Megadeth}}'s "Sweating Bullets" with these two lines matching:
83-->'''Upside Down and Inside Out:''' Don't know where your eyes are / but they're not doin' what you said / Don't know where your mind is baby / but you're better off without it.\
84'''Sweating Bullets:''' I'm in trouble for the things / I haven't got to yet / I'm chomping at the bit and my / Palms are getting wet
85* CreatorInJoke: The band's name - Tim and Damien first met at an art camp when they were 11, where they had an eccentric art teacher who basically had "OK, go!" as his catchphrase.
86* DepthDeception: The video for "The Writing's On the Wall" is full of them, including the title written out twice, and a bunch of random objects suspended in air which looked like Tim when viewed from above.
87* DreamWithinADream: The ending of ''Series/TheMuppetShow Theme'' video.
88* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Several early music videos began with a title card describing what occurs in them, such as "Here It Goes Again" [[note]]"OK GO, ON TREADMILLS"[[/note]], "A Million Ways" [[note]]"OK GO in the backyard, dancing"[[/note]], and "White Knuckles"[[note]]"OK GO, WITH FRIENDS" [[/note]].
89* EverythingIsAnInstrument: Toyed with briefly in the second video for "This Too Shall Pass", but taken up to eleven in the video for "Needing/Getting", in which the song is played by a car driving on a rally course, with various appendages attached to strike different instruments and objects as it passes by.
90* EverythingsPreciousWithPuppies: The video for "White Knuckles" features an entire crew of dogs of different breeds. Aside from the single line "You'll never get the pawprint out of the henhouse now," the song has nothing to do with dogs.
91* HiddenTrack: "9027 KM", an unlisted track at the end of the US version of ''Oh No'', consists of [[LeaveTheCameraRunning 35 minutes of the sounds of Damian's girlfriend sleeping]].
92* MindScrew: The music video for "The Writing's On the Wall", centered around optical illusions and trickery.
93* MythologyGag: In their video for the cover of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'''s theme song, they have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHK0JVAqQgE Animal holding up Dan]] during the sequence where the Muppets are using the band like puppets.
94** It also has a shot of the band on treadmills, though not lined up in the same setup as "Here it Goes Again". Also Damian smooshing his face on glass while wearing a sea-foam green bodysuit in and the the bit with the Swedish Chef and tower of Dixie cups play homage to the video's for "All is Not Lost" and the second "This Too Shall Pass".
95** The ending makes a reference to "White Knuckles," since Tim wakes from a CatapultNightmare saying "We can't do that video with those dogs." They also have a "one of these things is not like the other" moment with a sheep in the bed along with the dogs (in the actual White Knuckles video, one of the members tries to walk a goat across the scene while the dogs were running everywhere).
96* NewSoundAlbum: ''Of The Blue Colour of The Sky'' is a lot more electronic, psychedelic and down-tempo than their previous sound, while ''Hungry Ghosts'' has an obvious influence from electropop and disco.
97* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer:
98** "Upside Down & Inside Out" begins with a disclaimer that what the viewer is about to see is real, as it's shot in a plane in the air, using aerial techniques to send the interior of the plane into zero gravity. The disclaimer also says that the video contains no wires or green screen effects.
99** "Obsession" has one as well, stating that everything in the video is real, achieved with "1 band, 567 printers, and a lot of paper".
100* TheOner: They're ''masters'' at this technique, as showcased in their music videos for "A Million Ways", "Here It Goes Again", "WTF?", both versions of "This Too Shall Pass"[[note]]The second, more famous video ''does'' feature two post-production cuts to help the video sync up to the song, but the contraption ''was'' really run all the way through on the take used.[[/note]], "End Love"[[note]]An ''18 hour'' take sped up, slowed down, and heavily edited to resemble stop-motion[[/note]], "White Knuckles", "The Writing's On the Wall", "I Won't Let You Down", "Upside Down and Inside Out"[[note]]Filmed all the way through in a single take, however, the resulting video has a number of "StopTrick" edits where the band had to sit perfectly still while waiting for the next "zero-G parabola" to begin.[[/note]], and "The One Moment"[[note]]Due to the lack of a robot-mounted camera that could record it all in one take, it had to be split into parts and edited together[[/note]].
101* {{Overcrank}}: The video for "The One Moment" is three and a half minutes long, but most of it takes place over ''4.2 seconds'' of real-time.
102* PracticalEffects: Their second specialty after TheOner, using real-world objects to provide the special effects. Unlike most uses of this trope, it's not to provide a realistic-looking scene, but to produce a distinct and unique image.
103** "Obsession" uses a giant wall of printers to simulate a greenscreen, with each printer producing a part of a larger image.
104** "I Won't Let You Down" uses colored parasols at the end to replicate the image of five single-color LED screens.
105** "Last Leaf" is an animation done with pieces of toast as a medium.
106** "The Writing's On The Wall" uses a ton of ForcedPerspective to replicate abstract images usually expected as post-processing. [[EstablishingSeriesMoment This is best exemplified with the first scene with the band members in it,]] where it appears that the song's title has been overlaid onto the still shot, until the group starts moving around the foreground objects and carrying the title's letters with them.
107* PrecisionFStrike:
108** "Don't Ask Me" contains the only one on their self-titled debut.
109--->''Don't be so damn benign\
110And don't waste my fucking time''
111** There's also a Precision B-Strike in "Get Over It", in the line "Ain't it just a bitch?"
112** Rather predictably, there's also one in "WTF?"
113* ProductPlacement: Many of the inventive music videos that have made the group famous were underwritten by different sponsors, such as Chevrolet sponsoring "Needing/Getting" and Morton Salt funding "The One Moment". Since the sponsors tend to be hands off and just let OK Go do their thing, this is arguably one of the more positive examples of the trope.
114* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Bunny, Damian's dog, who has been featured in their videos, "White Knuckles" and "The Muppet Show Theme Song" and is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRVNVjFny-w Surprised Dog]] on [=YouTube=].
115* RubeGoldbergDevice: In their "This Too Shall Pass" music video.
116* SelfDeprecation: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1PqnAHE9eU Their acceptance speech for the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award]].
117* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Tim Nordwind sings lead on "C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips".
118** In a sort of variation of this, Tim does the lip syncing for some of their videos instead of Damian, including "Here It Goes Again" and "White Knuckles".
119* StuffBlowingUp: "Invincible" features many things, from beds to water coolers to a jar of olives being blown up.
120* UncommonTime: "WTF?" is in 5/4.
121* {{Undercrank}}: Almost the entirety of the video for "End Love", with a few bits of {{Overcrank}} for contrast.
122** "I Won't Let You Down" was filmed at half speed to make the complex choreography a little easier to follow.
123** "Upside Down and Inside Out" was filmed at approximately 78% speed to get the choreography to match the lengths of the "zero-G parabolas" the plane had to fly in while the video was filmed.

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