Here I Go
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What is the main topic of this episode?
The Lonely Island Setbacks Podcast.
Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast, minus Jorma, who's currently in Finland. And it's probably 6 AM in Finland right now. I think it's 2.30 AM. So it's not his fault. And I know a lot of people who listen to the pod just want to unload on Jorma for his inability to make the pod. But I mean, he's really pulled a fast one, because there's just a lot of promo going on for his movie he's shooting in Finland that nobody has to pay for. Each week is basically just a long live ad for his Finland movie. That's right.
This is my fault, though, because I went away from my movie, and we had banked so many episodes that they just rolled on by, and I got by scot-free.
It's true. And now, Jorm, there's no banking. But you guys were not just finding time to do this podcast. You found time to go back to SNL and do your second new digital short. And nobody expected this when the podcast started, that there would be new digital shorts. Certainly not. No. Certainly not. And I sort of expected post-Doug Emhoff's relevancy Is that a good way to tip what happened on November 6th? But Andy, I didn't think you would go back out to New York. So how did this one come across?
I wasn't really scheduled to, but I was so in the rhythm of being there. And then they announced that Charlie was going to be there, and we're huge fans. And we had a couple songs, frankly, that I was like, Charlie might be D-O-P-E on these. And I asked if it was cool to reach out and ask, and they said, yeah, go for it.
How did the collaboration with Charli XCX come about?
So I got put in touch with her and I sent her the song we ended up doing, Here I Go. And she was like, I'm with it. Not those exact words, but she had clarity on it. Let's just say that. Yeah. And we were off and running. Shot back out of the cannon across the country.
There's been something on my mind for a long time. A special passion of mine. I do it every chance that I find. So next time you walk past and throw away your trash, I'll pick up the phone and then do what I do best.
So you said there was a couple. You picked this one for Charlie, obviously, out of a few. What was the reason you were like, this is the one for Charlie?
She was musical guests and hosts. Yeah. And we knew in this one that she wouldn't be in the duration of the video and the song.
Gotcha. So you needed somebody to do one verse at the end.
Lower time commitment from her. Obviously, we would have loved her to be all over it. But I had a feeling energy-wise, comedy-wise, and time commitment-wise, it was a nice Venn diagram. She heard two, though.
She did hear two.
We gave her a choice. Oh, you did? Yeah. She would have been on the other one more. Yeah. But regardless of that, just in terms of the premise, she just much preferred the one we did.
Yeah. And I should say, even though she obviously is in less of it, she does feel like she's all over it.
Correct.
You know what I mean? Yeah. It does feel like a two-hander because you guys finished together. And so it's very well done. When did you guys write this one?
Strike, right?
During the strike?
Yeah.
I wrote it. It's a beat by Yorm's brother, Asa Tacone. And he was in there with me and helped me a little bit. Yeah.
This isn't, this isn't all Andy though. I mean, I will say I got to, we obviously changed the stuff for Charlie on that I did help with, but I got to walk in, you know, however long, let's say it was nine months ago and just get to come in from the other room and be like, and here, you know, in stages as it progressed. But yeah, it was awesome.
What would you say? What is the style of this song? What is this supposed to evoke? Who is making a song like this that is not a comedy version?
I mean, once again, when we got to the video, I was aiming at K-pop stuff.
Yeah.
And when me and Asa were recording, I was asking him to help me record and stack vocals and do vocal turns and things like that that would be pure pop in that way. And I asked him to add strings in places to make it more like some of those songs that I really like. But then it's my voice, so it just feels like its own genre. Yeah.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic of this episode?
0:00–1:40
2
How did the collaboration with Charli XCX come about?
1:40–5:00
3
What challenges did they face during the shoot?
5:00–7:25
4
What was unique about the song's writing process?
7:25–8:41
5
How does the music video enhance the song?
8:41–13:26
6
What were the comedic elements of the new digital short?
13:26–16:33
7
What was the filming experience like for the cast?
16:33–20:10
8
How did they develop the character dynamics in the video?
20:10–46:31