Info: Ah, the ultimate classic. Shot like a sneaky pervert is following the boys as they attempt to get in a taxi, ride a bus, roller-blade in a car park, jump on the moon (in order for Tulsa to own it I think...), meet Einstein (later taken out due to permission of the footage denied by his relation), drive a car (taken out in the UK because they seem to think we'd get ideas if we see an 11 year old driving! Hold on lads, I've got an idea...=) reach the beach and well, go nuts! Also has footage of them playing in a dodgily-decorated living room and planting flowers on a highway (of all places).
Look out for: A bunch of tiddlie-peeps running outside the living room, Tay and Zac skating into eachother.
Cost: About a tener?? (Plus the cost for a semi-taxi ride and two seconds on a bus before being turfed out!)
Where's The Love
I Will Come To You
River
Thinking Of You
If Only
This Time Around
Info: HORRAY!! Hanson running around like maniacs in my capital! And for some reason kicking pigeons! They feel the same way everybody else does about those flying rats! They stand outside Battersea Power Station, sit on some steps trying to get money for lunch (and by London's snack prices-- it will take a while =), rock out in a very white room, watch couples fight intensively (which always gives me a chuckle), play in a market with a bunch of rockers (looks like Candem by the look of the people! haha) and play with a disco ball. Joy.
Look out for: Taylor hitting Ike (when asking where's the right in fighting! Irony anyone?), disco balls used a reference to Einstein AGAIN (well his theory this time...=)
Cost: About $5,000 for the paint job on the room, oh and for lunch.
Info: Once again they opted for the groovy choice as it was shot in Pinewood Studios! Horray! Its a bleak looking video with people walking around looking like somebody ate their last rolo with Hanson glowing (in all their glory) to say 'hey, we have rolos for everyone!' Thus, they're all happy. THE END! (Oh, there is also a groovy scene in a forest, Ike playing guitar like he's Hendrix reincarnated and apparantley a fox that was cut due to it asking for too much money =)
Look our for: Somebody smiling. Blink and you'll miss them!
Cost: After the fox was cut, about $2,000 (with extra money left over for rolos! Yay!)
Weird
Info: Ah, their most abstract piece (well it would have to be, wouldn't it??) where they mingle with the best group of weirdoes and freaks I've ever seen (actually I looks a lot like the last house party I went to!) in Times Square Station. They swim through a tube filled with water (while singing-- impressive), climb up the wall of a white circular room, morph into punks and try to get money for lunch again but this time with the crappest array of instruments since my school music's cupboard.
Look out for: The girl with a pig; I still say it's Victoria Beckham!
Cost: It was given the title of most expensive video at one point, so about $6 and a round up the local?
Info: Ah, nothing like Weird Al to spice up a music video, this time his target is Titanic and Hanson are in for the rides. They say it's their favourite, but as much as I love the art of take-the-piss, mine will always be Weird. I must say I love the baby footage though of them playing like novices (Hmph! like there ever was a time!) and then crossing over to them rocking out live. YAY!
Look out for: Zac with bloody long hair, Hanson sucking at playing instruments (cos you'll never see it again! =)
Cost: Hmmm, probably around $30,000 for costs of renting out the Titanic set (and for Gloria Steward's makeup! She's only 17 for God's sake!!)
Info: Grrr, the cheek! With the release of Thinking of You comes the same video I for one had been watching since the previous Christmas as it is off the Tulsa, Toyko video. Cheeky beggars! They should have phoned me (because I was a renowned video director at the age of twelve!) cos I could have thought up much better ideas and for the price of a date with Ike! haha
Look out for: Deja vu.
Cost: The price of a 'Tulsa, Tokyo' video, some scissors and sellotape.
Info: Now here's a pitch. Go out the desert with a bunch of mates (who all strangely look like models =) with big fuckoff caravans, quad and dirt bikes and then play on the roof of said fuckoff RVs, ride around on jumps which Hanson have landed in the middle of and can't escape and burn Twinkies by a fire like stoned uni students on Spring Break. What could go wrong?? Ike gets to cuddle up with a girl, Zac gets to have a fight with the rest of the people in the caravan and Tay... well, he gets to play his harmonica due to absence of John Popper. FUN.
Look out for: Wicked-fun quad and dirt bike stunts. Weeeeeeee!
Cost: The inflation of Twinkies is on the rise and they hired out models so about $25,000
Info: A happy-bunny video (cos they didn't want to make it like the song's meaning. Why not?? I'd have a big picture of Bush with PLEB written on it!) where they walk around an abondoned hotel that seems to have hoarded Marilyn Monroe's wardrobe, a grand piano, a classic drumkit and tons of rats (named Otto). Woo! Highlights include random girls screaming over seeing rats, guys zipping around on scooters and Taylor playing a piece of wood (uh, what Making The Video to get that one =)
Look out for: Upside-down guys and the sound of producer about to shoot himself.
Cost: About $1,000 until they decided to stick in a Monroe original, so $500,000 in total (oh and the rats have a good agent).
Save Me
Info: A very artsy video that copied the graphics of the A-ha video 'Take On Me' so they all look cartoony. Huh! I can do that on Photoshop too! I think they just run out of budget on tour throwing money away on non-vital stuff like roadies, stage lights and instruments! Anyway they had plans for a big showy Michael Jackson film-esq video with guest appearances left and right but had to settle for a black and white, artsy-looking piece to make them look "deep". And damn them it worked.
Look out for: Some dodgy out-of-sync drum playing from Zac.
Cost: Apparently $20 but I think they're lying. It cost them a total of $1,000,000 and no less!!
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