I remember joking a lot about how it was like our Armageddon, Michael Bay video. But in terms of actually seeing what it looks like, you're like, "This doesn't even look like anything."Īndy Samberg: I forgot how many cool settings we got in Central Park, the underground tunnel-y thing with the incredible ceiling and those little palladium stage things they have there. And then the most frustrating part is that at the end of the day, we were like, "This looks like green screen." We killed ourselves to do this crazy maneuver and it was very memorable and I’m glad we did it for the memory. Jorma Taccone: We were on a chair that was on a crane, so we're swinging around on this crane. And I remember actively, all of us being like, “You might die doing this shot.” And wondering why we were doing it, but then seeing it and being like, “It looks cool.” We still did those shots at the end where we're like lifted up on a crane, even higher above the building. The color correct was very challenging because we looked like Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls with rouge blotches on our cheeks. So I took off my glove and my hand got in two words and then it couldn't.Īndy Samberg: It was gnarly. I remember I needed to write something down. We would start doing a take and your face would freeze and then you'd run back inside.Īkiva Schaffer: Akon, for most of his takes, his face wasn't moving. I remember somebody saying with wind chill it was at negative 20. I don't think I'm lying if I say it's the coldest I've ever felt in my entire life. And I think it was six degrees on the ground and it was super windy. That's going to be a problem."Īndy Samberg: Akon was freezing cold, as we all were.Īkiva Schaffer: It's the second tallest building in New York. The one thing about Akon is he's from Senegal and so he's not super psyched on the cold." And we were like, "Oh. And it's not mixed or anything.” And we were like, “Oh my God, he just destroyed that.” Then he flew out to New York to make the video.Īkiva Schaffer: He knew it was hilarious.Īndy Samberg: He was having a blast. That day was a real treat when it was like, “Here's this first pass on it. Jorma Taccone: We’re just massive fans and we immediately sort of thought of him as somebody who we were fans of, but also would sound good on it.Īkiva Schaffer: We sent it to him and he recorded on his own in Miami or Atlanta. Does he want to do it? If he doesn't, don't tell anyone because then we'll ask someone else.” And he was into it. It starts off with him saying his own name and we were like, “oh, we should do it like Khaled's mixtape.” We reached out to Akon’s team and we were basically like, “We wrote this song for Akon. Jorma Taccone: The first line that I thought was really funny that I think he said was, "let us flop around on top of them.” Because it's the most accurate part of the song of just like, "Ah, this is sadly how I think a lot of women maybe feel about sex with men."Īndy Samberg: “ We Takin’ Over” had just come out when we were making that album. It’s clearly from the perspective that the narrators are stunted, and we were giggling about that POV and applying something that basic and immature to a beat that sounded so big and radio friendly. And what a wonderful gift it is anytime it is able to occur, of course, in a loving way. It feels so good, that it shouldn't actually be real and exist. ![]() It was just me and Jorma laughing about how, especially when you're young, you can't believe you get to have sex. Let's smoke some reefer.” We were very into, at that time, very blunt anthem statement songs. It’d be like 9:30 or 10:00 and I go, “Guys, I'm going to call it tonight a little early to take care of a pregnant woman that I impregnated.”Īndy Samberg: And we were like, “Oh, Dad's gone. My wife was pregnant at the time and upstairs. Akiva, I don't know what he was doing that night, but for whatever reason, maybe he didn't want to smoke weed.Īkiva Schaffer: I want to be clear. Jorma Taccone: Yeah me and Andy were smoking weed. Me and Jorma got stony one night and came up with 12 ideas, three of which we actually ended up making. ![]() The managers sent it out, and then the rest is history.Īndy Samberg: We're not big weed guys, but we constantly would do interviews around our albums and people would be like, “what were you guys smoking when you came up with this idea?” And this one is funny because we actually were smoking when we came up with this idea. We sent the files over just like, all right, why not? And trusted that something good would come out of it. I was a fan of “I'm On A Boat” and all their previous stuff on SNL and everything.
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