History Music / OKGo

* DreamWithinADream: The ending of ''Series/TheMuppetShow Theme'' video.

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.

Their 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").

-->'''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.
-->'''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

--->''Don't be so damn benign''\\
''And don't waste my fucking time''

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Bunny, Damian's dog, who has been featured in their videos, "White Knuckles" and "The Muppet Show Theme Song" and is Surprised Dog on youtube.

* StuffBlowingUp: "Invincible".

Their 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"), and performing a song in zero gravity on an airplane in flight ("Upside Down & Inside Out").

Their 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 most famous 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"), and performing a song in zero gravity on an airplane in flight ("Upside Down & Inside Out").

Their 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 most famous 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"), performing an elaborate series of optical illusions ("The Writing's on the Wall"), and performing a song in zero gravity on an airplane in flight ("Upside Down & Inside Out").

Their 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 for Best Music Video, became one of the most famous 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"), performing an elaborate series of optical illusions ("The Writing's on the Wall"), and performing a song in zero gravity on an airplane in flight ("Upside Down & Inside Out").

OK Go is an AlternativeRock[=/=]PowerPop band. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, 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.

Their 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 for Best Music Video, became one of the most famous 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"), performing an elaborate series of optical illusions ("The Writing's on the Wall"), and performing a song in zero gravity on an airplane in flight ("Upside Down & Inside Out").

The group currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

The band's albums are:

Their videos include:

OK Go is an AlternativeRock[=/=]PowerPop band. The band formed in 1998, and have gone from being an also-ran in the early 2000s "Return of Rock" that also spawned Music/TheStrokes and Music/TheWhiteStripes to being internationally famous for their inventive music videos which are often complex, [[TheOner shot in one take]] and on a low budget.

Their most recognized song is "Here It Goes Again", famous for the music video where the four members performed a choreographed dance over several sets of treadmills. More recently, "This Too Shall Pass" gained a degree of notoriety thanks to its [[RubeGoldbergDevice Rube Goldberg machine]] video. They got really famous after winning a [=MacArthur=] Genius Grant for the video for “upside down and inside out.”

[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Tim Norwind, Andy Ross, Damien Kulash, Dan Konopka. Not pictured: Andy Duncan.]]

** End Love:
*** Tim: pink/orange (?)

** This Too Shall Pass:

** Upside Down & Inside Out:

** "Needing/Getting", same color scheme as "This Too Shall Pass".

* ProductPlacement: Many of the inventive music videos that have made the group famous were underwritten by different sponsors, most notably the Chevy Sonic featured in the "Needing/Getting" video. Since the sponsors tend to lay off on the ExecutiveMeddling and just let OK Go do their thing, this is arguably one of the more positive examples of the trope.

* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: "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.

* 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.

* 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.

Their most recognized song is "Here It Goes Again", famous for the music video where the four members performed a choreographed dance over several sets of treadmills (see right). More recently, "This Too Shall Pass" gained a degree of notoriety thanks to its [[RubeGoldbergDevice Rube Goldberg machine]] video. They got really famous after winning a [=MacArthur=] Genius Grant for the video for “upside down and inside out.”

* DreamTeam: Lead singer Damian Kulash recorded 6 songs with Music/AmandaPalmer, Music/BenFolds and Creator/NeilGaiman in 2011 as [[NonIndicativename 8 in 8]][[note]]They were trying to make 8 songs in 8 hours, but ended up doing 6 in 12.[[/note]].
%%ZCE; explain this ** "Tomorrow's SuperGroup today."

** The "Muppet Show" video features brief call-backs to the videos for "Here It Goes Again", "This Too Shall Pass", and "White Knuckles", with each one being somehow interrupted by the Muppets.

** 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 smoosing his face on glass while wearing a green bodysuit 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".

* TheCameo: Japanese girl group [[{{Music/Perfume}} Perfume]] appear in the preamble of the "I Won't Let You Down" video.

** "Tomorrow's SuperGroup today."

** "The Writing's On The Wall" uses a ton of ForcedPerspective to replicate abstract images usually expected as post-processing. 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.

* "[[http://youtu.be/u1ZB_rGFyeU I Won't Let You Down]]" (2014)

[[quoteright:320:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAAsCNK7RA https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/okgo-hereitgoesagain_7854.jpg]]]] OK Go is an AlternativeRock[=/=]PowerPop band. The band formed in 1998, and have gone from being an also-ran in the early 2000s "Return of Rock" that also spawned Music/TheStrokes and Music/TheWhiteStripes to being internationally famous for their inventive music videos which are often complex, [[TheOner shot in one take]] and on a low budget.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAAsCNK7RA Here It Goes Again]]" (2006)

* EverythingIsAnInstrument: Toyed with briefly in the second video for "This Too Shall Pass", but taken UpToEleven 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.

* AntiLoveSong: ''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}}.

* {{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.
* PrecisionFStrike: "Don't Ask Me" contains the only one on their self-titled debut.
--->''Don't be so damn benign''
--->''And don't waste my fucking time''

* BaldOfAwesome: Tim. This, along with his glasses and handlebar mustache have become something of a signature look for him.

* RubeGoldbergDevice: in their "This Too Shall Pass" music video.

* CreatorInJoke: The band's name - Tim Nordwind and Damien Kulash 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.