This is the first time as a band that our “finished tracking a song” poop poop/tequila shot had to come from the dregs of three separate bottles. ✌️❤️🍝
Been thinking about the Bitchshifter video this week. At some point in 2020, while driving around "to get some air" during lockdown, I got the initial idea for this video. Something came on the radio about how Elon Musk's net worth had tripled during the pandemic so far and I just pulled the car over and fucking screamed. Somehow this led to me asking myself, "What do these assholes do on the weekends? Do they try to be regular people and totally fail at it? Do they sit around and eat steaks all day?
Bitchshifter turned into our answer to the question of what weirdo billionaires do when they try to be normal, which is not to do normal things. And, yes, the video was also a low key homage to the video for Foo Fighters' song Low. If you make something with Jack Black and it immediately gets banned, you're doing things right.
The song itself was more about trying to accept the modern world the way it is and just being really pissed off at that prospect, but from the perspective of the average non-billionaire. The video, then, turned into the other side of the coin.
In retrospect I do wish that our three main characters had been Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg rather than Richard Branson- but at that time, the three were in the headlines together as the "space race" billionaires. At least Zuck makes an appearance...
~Rainy
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