The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers talk about the new digital short, Here I Go (ft. Charli xcx) that debuted on Nov. 16th 2024 on SNL! They talk about how fast the short came together, what filming day was like, the fun cameos in the short, and so much more! Here I Go (ft. Charli xcx) - Uncensored Version - https://youtu.be/kHwpS0LakeU?si=TsTJoF_XP1ToLJ9R Hero Song - https://youtu.be/GF5_rdUmdYY?si=4PstpEnX1kRnb21R (Not all the clips we mention are available online; some never even aired.) If you want to see more photos and clips follow us on Instagram @lonelymeyerspod. Send us an email! [email protected] Support our sponsors: Sony Pictures Saturday Night Bring home the movie everyone is talking about—Saturday Night, the hilarious and zany story capturing the chaotic moments right before the very first episode of SNL made it to air, where everything that could go wrong did. Grab your friends, get ready to laugh, and make every night Saturday Night. Available to buy or rent on digital now from Sony Home Entertainment. Rated R Public Rec For a very limited time, upgrade your wardrobe instantly and save 25% OFF during the @PublicRec Holiday Sale at https://www.publicrec.com/ISLAND #publicrecpod Airbnb Visit Airbnb.com today and book a guest favorite. These are the most beloved homes on Airbnb. Produced by Rabbit Grin ProductionsExecutive Producers Jeph Porter and Rob HolyszLead Producer Kevin MillerCreative Producer Samantha SkeltonCoordinating Producer Derek JohnsonCover Art by Olney AtwellMusic by Greg Chun and Brent AsburyEdit by Cheyenne Jones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
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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.
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Chapter 2: 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.
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Chapter 3: What challenges did they face during the shoot?
But I would say that when we started working on it, Keev, it was more that. And then we raised the tempo a ton and added other elements to it to, in my opinion, in my hope, to make it more current pop. Sure, but it still holds on to that as its core genre, I would say, as an outside listener. Well, sign off in the comments.
When Charlie listens to it, who's singing her part when she first hears it?
There was no wife when I sent it to her, but I told her that if she wanted to do it, that that's the pivot we would make. And I'm so glad that she was down because I like it so much more now. It was just the journey of this one snitch. Oh, his wife joining is the best. His wife joining is the best. So we flipped that one line.
It was, you know, gonna sleep like a motherfucking baby tonight, night, night. And then I just went into it. Now hold up. Wait a minute. But instead we added make way for my wife. And then she took those lines. And then we added a whole breakdown that we had Asa make.
Gonna sleep like a baby tonight. Now make way for my wife. Now hold up. Within two centimeters of my driveway, bitch. In this crazy world, I can't believe I found someone like you. Who shows love the way we do. By calling the cops instead of sex. When I grab my binocular. See you through them and my guy's not right.
This was on, this was on Wednesday. This was on Tuesday and Wednesday, by the way.
On Tuesday and Wednesday. And then Akiva helped me write the breakdown part, which is, you know, piggy piggy through the like space setup with all the stars. And then it comes back out and it used to be just me, but then we did trading off for binocularos. Binocularos.
Yeah.
All right. I have a question.
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Chapter 4: What was unique about the song's writing process?
I would agree with that. Yeah. I mean, also Sushi Glory Hole, we say the hook, premise, joke, punchline of it the second the song starts.
Yes. It's a funnier song. It's going for funny right away. This one's telling a story.
I think you need to see what this singer looks like. Right. Because the minute it starts, you're such a happy dickhead. And your house, everything about you. The first look at you, just that little gray streak in your hair, the shittiest pajamas, that robe, and the way you're just delightfully dancing. It's just perfect. And you can't get that without by listening to the song.
True. Absolutely true. I got the smile on your face by listening. I will say that. Like you can, there's a smile in the singing, but it is, I mean, both of them are strengthened by the video. That's always been the thing with all of, the amount of people we played I'm on a boat for that went, oh yeah, good. What else you got? And then the video came out and they were like, whoa.
And we were like, it's the same song. And now they liked it. It's hard for people to picture audio jokes the way that the video just spoon feeds you.
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Chapter 5: How does the music video enhance the song?
It's also a lot of these are you're learning who the character is in a different way when you see them. You know what I mean? Whereas the way that it works when you have no video is you're waiting to find out what the joke is, especially on Here I Go.
It's so funny.
It's such a good the same thing where you enjoy it because you're a shitty guy. So, you know, you're not the hero of the song, but it still makes you a little sad if it's about race.
Yes. And it's just not. It's not. It's just it truly becomes a it's like the anthem for I feel like every single person I talked to grew up in a neighborhood where there was one fucking jerk on their block. It was awful. He's calling the cops on people. And the people in the neighborhood don't like him. And the cops don't like him. And it's just a universally reviled neighborhood character.
Yeah. And it's delightful, his lack of awareness. Although later in the song, there's a little awareness. Because right in the beginning, he does say that his neighbors really, they like him for it. Yes. Then we see that the neighbors don't.
Yes. But again, you got to see that in the video. Yeah.
Or else you might believe him. I do think if you listen to the song, you'd be like, I don't think his neighbor's actually like him. No, I know, I know.
It was very new for me, the way he looked in this video, except then I realized, I do think maybe this is a continuation of the guy from Hero Song, who after, because he looks a little bit like that, like after he got the shit kicked out of him and he gave up being a superhero, he just kind of went to the suburbs and now this is the way he fights crime, is just calling the cops and not putting himself in danger.
Oh my God, I didn't think of that. Someone else said that they thought it might've been the guy from Great Day.
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Chapter 6: What were the comedic elements of the new digital short?
Oh, for sure. Yeah. Because he also, there's a nice detail that he is actually using the right trash can.
Yeah, he's doing.
That's right. But those belong to Andy's household. It's not even that he's putting the wrong thing in recycling. He's recycling a coffee cup in the neighborhood.
Yeah, but that's that guy's thing. That's not for other people. Can I say that I bring in my bins faster now? Because sometimes I would bring them in and there'd be little bags of dog shit in them from like people walking their dogs and going, oh, I don't want to carry this. I'm going to put it in there. And then it would rain, but they were left open because when the trash truck does it.
And then I would have floating bags of...
dog shit in the bottom is this interesting it is interesting I do think it's interesting I've experienced the same thing and I think people who throw their dog shit into strangers bins need to hear it yeah well I think that it's important to know too that if you had pitched that Keeve it would have been a terrible thing for the video because you might have actually been on Andy's side yeah
Too relatable. And then this guy, you're literally like, why is he even calling?
Are you supposed to tip over your trash can when it has rainwater in it so all your trash isn't getting wet? And then you let all that bag dog shit?
After a big rain, I will hand dry my own trash.
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Chapter 7: What was the filming experience like for the cast?
You should drop out of frame here and then come into frame here so it feels all kind of like- That's what I mean.
He pre-vis the kineticness of it. Yes, you always knew you'd be baking a cake and eating a cake.
And then you talked about laying over multiple tracks. There's that great moment at the table where you say, hell yeah, motherfucker, and then six of you do it. And Shoemaker was saying, I can't believe you haven't done that before. And you were saying, not technically possible back in your day?
We could have probably pulled that off. It would have been a little harder. Have we ever done it before, Keev? I feel like I'm going to be wrong and we forgot. Where there's multiple of us in the thing?
I feel like we have. I don't feel like that was a new move. But it was motivated by your song, the fact that you put one motherfucker into a bunch of motherfuckers.
Diva sent a voice note. Do we want to listen to it? Yeah, let's listen to Diva and then I want to go through because I have a bunch more. Okay. This is our buddy Mike Diva who directed the video.
Hey, guys. So stoked to be on here. I love the pod. I love all you guys. So the Here I Go shoot was truly so long ago. I barely remember half of it, but it was kind of, from what I remember, the usual chaos you'd expect from a shoot that came together super last minute. I scouted the house on Thursday and planned all the setups while Andy and Keeve were literally mid-flight to New York.
We had two performance setups in this super musty old church a few blocks away. Andy came up with this awesome idea for the phone wall performance setup where hands would stick out of the wall holding phones doing this light choreography. But when we got to that set with like an hour left in our day, we still had to
figure out where the dancers could stand behind the wall to fit their hands through the holes at different heights. And it was such a puzzle that it turned into this situation where guys were very loudly sawing holes into this wall while I was shooting Andy performing on a different set just a few feet away.
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Chapter 8: How did they develop the character dynamics in the video?
We got to stop the noise. We're about to roll. And I was like, how much time do we have? He was like, honestly, like 30 minutes left in the day. And I was like, just tell them to keep going. I can just lip sync to this fucking song. Just turn it way up. So the whole take, you can just hear them going like... It was just pure chaos, but, you know, you do what you gotta do.
It is very funny that it was not originally written to have a wife in it because it is so perfect. I love the reveal, just knowing that Charli XCX was standing behind you.
Mm-hmm.
It's just really funny to think about, like, a giant musical superstar at that level, like, agreeing to do something like this, and then her reveal is just sort of, like, crouching behind Andy.
Oh, welcome to showbiz.
It's the best. Just the best.
She came in having just recorded it Thursday afternoon, right? Evening, yeah. The amount of times we've made one of these songs and the pop star involved does not know any of the lyrics because they recorded for half hour and never thought about it again. She came in, she knew every word, and she had little... like choreographed things, not by anybody else, just herself.
Like she knew how to present the jokes and pantomime and do things that would make them play and be in the spirit. And she kind of was the character, that blonde lady, that's your wife. Like it wasn't her, it was this character. And she fully from very first take was better at this than almost anybody I would say we've worked with. There's other good ones.
I don't want to disparage it, but I want to give her her props that she was very good.
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