It’s pretty clear from all the embedded music videos and song-reference-titled posts that John and I are music lovers. John even mentioned that he sings a lot in this post and we all know that I was a wee bit enamored with a certain rapper in my youth (an obsession that drove me to say the word “phat” on national TV). So when a musician friend here in Richmond casually invited us into their studio to mess around… well something magical happened. One thing led to another, and we ended up pouring all of our DIY passion into a DIYed song for you guys. Full of life lessons, house trials and tribulations, design rules that we follow (and break), and all sorts of other home-related musings – all set to a phat sweet beat of course.
We’re hardly Big & Pac, but now that we got the edited version of our song back from the studio (ahh!!) we’re officially dropping our first single, which we’ve entitled: Hush.
So without further ado, our super professional all-that’s-missing-is-P-Diddy-and-a-helicopter video:
In case you’re at work and you can’t watch it, let’s just say it’s worth a play when you get home. Here’s what you have to look forward to:
- My hair’s down
- There are some pretty decent special effects (three $herdogs)
- Burger and Clara each make a cameo
- Ceramic animals abound
- Shelves get styled
- We remind people about the importance of safety glasses
Wait, but we have one more thing to tell you…
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Okay, so we didn’t really record anything in a studio. We just made a fake-o forty second song at home where we rapped a few sentences into our computer’s microphone and used some stock vocal effects in Final Cut Pro along with a free beat that we found online. Then we paired it with a cliche-tastic video that we whipped up at home and bam… our first single. But it’s still worth watching later if you’re at work right now. I mean, how many rappers drop the words “miter saw” in their verse? In summary: it was more fun than two 31-year-olds should have. And of all the years that we’ve maintained our little April Fool’s tradition – can you believe this is our fifth year of this?! – this one’s one of our favorites (here’s last years, the one from 2011, the one from 2010, and the one from 2009).
Hope you guys fell for it – although I’m 99% sure you didn’t.
Kim says
A) Sherry, you are gorgeous.
B) John, your video skills (or should I say $killz?) are freaking awesome! Love seeing your progression over the years with your video capabilities!
C) I am going to start a petition for the song to be completed. Then when you start doing your book tour for your second book, the song will have to played over the loud speaker before you’re introduced.
YoungHouseLove says
Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
xo
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Jess @ Crunchy Hot Mama says
AHHH! I have to 2nd the finishing of this video! Ya’ll totally rocked it even if it was a joke, (you didn’t have me very long) and we’d love to see it in its completion.
Sherry, you look gorgeous with your hair down and J-boom is rocking the playa look ;)
You guys always keep it funky fresh and I love it-I’m also digging the new header for both sites. I don’t know how you do it, but you make it look so easy.
Ally says
You guys are too cute and funny! I mean, who else would make a video like this?! :) Keep rocking Sher Shady, uh, $herdog. And John-Z? J-Diddy? John Rule…?
Andrea says
Ahahaha you guys made me laaaaugh. xoxo
kim says
super cute!
GG says
high comedy
Ainsley says
HAHAHAHAH I can’t take this. I’m cracking up at my desk. You guys get me every single year! So good.
cathy says
Crack me up and it was fabulous. Made my day!
Lizzy says
Yo. You got me. However, my son thought that John looked like a “video game guy” with the hood action. This is a good thing, btw.
Lauren says
Was watching this with my 11 mo daughter and she was bopping to the beat and laughing whenever you laughed during the outtake part of the video. Pretty freaking adorable. Great job!
Natalie C says
THIS made my day. Holy hilarious.
Amy @ drivethirtythree says
ummmm..that was awesome.
thank you.
Megan @ Rappsody in Rooms says
HAHAH! This is hilarious! Love the video and outtakes. Don’t know which is better. So great.
Kate says
HAHAHAHA THIS IS “freaking” AWESOME!!!!! hahahahaah
Kim says
I like it. Now I know you’re cool cats.
It is so weird to see you through photos, but your personality shows in the video. Totally different people to me- that’s a good thing.
Liz K says
maybe im just a dork, but i actually thought it was pretty good!
Christa @ a*typicaljourney says
Seriously just made my freakin day. <3
Jessica says
I’m legitimately disappointed this isn’t real..it was about to replace the thrift shop song as my new jam. Seriously though, that was great!
Christi says
I thought the same thing! Thriftshop mash up with YHL rap = success in my book!
Lori says
I totally fell for it!! I think it’s pretty awesome!!
Valerie says
Wow, you guys are dorks. haha but this was hilarious. April Fools aside– this is totally something you guys would do just to amuse yourselves, then put it out there all casual, then it would go viral because everyone thinks you are hilarious.
Happy April 1st to ya’ll!
Romaine says
I just spit LaCroix allllll over my work laptop.
WORTH ITTTTTTT!!! LOL
Jocelyne says
Oh thank goodness. I was fairly embarrassed for you guys for a minute there!
Joanna says
This was your best April Fools post yet! I have to admit, I was excited when I woke up this morning just to see what you all did this year!
Long time lurker, first time commenter — I love you guys!
Lindsay S. says
Best. post. ever.
Jessica says
Omg! I totally fell for it!!!! You guys did good!!! I vote for more ;)
Sarah says
Oh. My. God.
Now I need to see the rest! LOL. How very Andy Samberg of you. And after all these years of knowing you’re going to post a prank I still fell for it.
Laura (Blogging Over Thyme) says
Oh my god. This is one of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen. And best April Fool’s post ever. Loved it.
Especially all of Sherry’s practice “yo..yo…YO’s”. You guys are way too funny & cute.
Dalia says
Oh this is great! haha I soooo fell for it!
kaylaaimee says
Um…you totally got me. I had no idea it was April Fools until I saw this. But it was basically awesome.
Christi says
Best.Thing.Ever!
I loved how John looked all crazy, it reminded me of his Dexter impersonation!
Burger is pretty fly…. for a white dog!
Thanks or reminding me it is April Fools, I always forget!
Hannah says
So funny! I watched it twice! I figured it was an April Fools prank at first, but when I saw there was a YouTube video, I thought, “Oh – maybe this is for real!”
Whitney says
I have been checking constantly this morning to see what you would come up with… I put on my headphones at worked and prayed the phone wouldn’t interrupt the video. I really think this video needs to be made full length :)
Bethney says
That was pretty impressive for a “we just whipped this up” video. It looks so professional! Haha! I loved it!
Lindsay says
Amazeballs…I’m speechless.
Cathy says
Too funny! I laughed so hard I have tears in my eyes. (And yes, I will admit I totally fell for it!) The bloopers at the end were the best! :-)
Amanda M. says
Freaking hysterical! But I knew it was an April Fools from following you for a while now… but it was still great!
LauraJane says
this might be the most magical video I’ve ever watched. Hilarious.
And Sherry, you’re so beautiful. :)
Hannah says
That just completely made my day hahaha.
Kristen says
1) This totally made my day. 2) IT. IS. AWESOME. 3) Is it wrong if I wanted to hear more??? 4) If it’s wrong, I don’t want to be right!!!! :D
rachel says
This is awesome!
Amanda says
Um, awesome. I bet that was a good time!! Hilarious!
Kayla says
I was so sad when it ended! I really wanted a whole song!!!!
[email protected] says
It didn’t take me too long to figure out what you were up to, but still one of my favorite posts ever! You guys seem so comfortable in front of the camera and I’m super impressed with the video-making skills!
kari s. says
I was grumpy when I watched this. Now I am not. lol cute! :)
Mandi says
Loved it! Looks like you had WAY too much fun making that video :)
Lissa says
That was the best!! I have to say that your Music Video was better than many of the ones I have seen these days!! SherDog would make an awesome rapper! A beautiful one too!!
Carly says
oh. my. god. i totally clicked the video first too. I was thinking, “what the f—??”. bhahahahah!
Kristi says
OMG – I was SO excited and actually thought – “they could totally be the next Karmen!” Ha ha ! Rushed to get my earphones for my work computer and THEN scrolled down. You totally got me! This is WAY more believable than a $4,000 toilet! Thanks for making my day!
Sara says
Out of all your April Fool’s posts ever through the blog, this is the only one I’ve ever fallen for!
Julia Kent says
Haha you got me! Hilarious. And I would actually like to see a whole video some time!
I think the reason this was believable was because it’s actually something $herdog WOULD want to do…
;)
amy says
THAT
IS
HILARIOUS
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