My Gain rap video (worth a MILLION bucks!)
June 30th, 2011 | By 49
So I have a contest entry for the Gain “Smell Like A Million Bucks” contest. You can help me by clicking and viewing my video. What would be great if you did this EVERY DAY. The more views I have, the better. I made it easy for you to SHARE with others, just give them the link http://vote4.funky49.com and it will get them to the video!
What’s awesome about this video? A lot! I’m rapping. I’m doing laundry. I’m greeting a cute girl at the front door. I’m wearing the Gain colors (lime green and orange). I even made a cute and positive instrumental. The beat even uses some samples of my washing machine!
Gain - Smell like a million bucks video
Before all the fun stuff happened, Dan and I did some thinking of what the song could be about and follow the video from there. Using Gain before a date seemed like a winner! Telling a story could look really interesting. The song and lyrics came together nicely. If you’re a fan of funky49, you’ll recognize the chord progression used on another song! I-ii-iii-IV-V-IV in C Major I think. You tell me!
The weekend after Father’s Day weekend, I took a cheap AirTran flight to Chicagoland. I got to work with my friend Dan again! You know us from the Particle Business music video, n’est pas? He said that was the last video he shot on his old camera. We were going to shoot with his Canon T2i DSLR in high definition. YES!
Shooting the video was pretty fun! The first video shot was me going through my clothes (actually his clothes) to find I didn’t have any clean ones, the lawn mowing, and meeting the cute blonde at the door (let’s call her Cheryl!). This was all at her house… so yes, Cheryl rang her own doorbell to meet me at her own front door! Cheryl’s dad has this wicked awesome wood bar he built himself! After the house, we shot in a grocery store where in the video you can see Dan had turned the other product labels AWAY from the camera. After that, we gathered up Cheryl and Rod (another part of Dan’s crew!) and headed off to Millennium Park in Chicago’s Loop area. Here we shot the water fall over brick rapping shot. It’s on the corner of East Monroe Street and South Michigan Avenue. Research shows that this art installment called Crown Fountain. The water falling was loud! So loud, I couldn’t hear the beat to properly rap over it. Also, little kids were enjoying the water around us who were each sure to splash us!
I really wanted to see/shoot at Cloud Gate, aka the Magic Bean but mean old Dan said no! We then had a break to take in the Taste of Chicago. DELICIOUS! I had four different kinds of perogies! I love them… and before this Chicago trip I’ve only ever had FROZEN PEROGIES!
We actually shot some of me rapping at Buckingham Fountain but it was not used in the video. Buckingham Fountain is the fountain used in Married… with Children. The next day we shot in a laundromat and I had to fly home, leaving Chicago again. I used to have a grudge against Chicago for a very personal reason. After my Fermilab and Gain video trips, that grudge has been erased. I LOVE YOU CHICAGO!
Here is the lyrics used in the Gain rap vid:
sooo… I
get a text message from this nice girlie and
she’d like to see me in an hour or three
check my dresser and I say OH NO
I don’t have any clean clothes! (spoken)
away to the grocery store I flee to
pickup some Gain on aisle three!
I use Gain because my nose knows
plus its a party for all my clothes
Gain beats stains, is about the win
Hot or cold, take Gain for a spin
smell so fresh i love to get dressed
especially for this girl I’m trying to impress
(break)
my head is spinning like the laundry then I
get dressed fresh for my lady
<ding dong> goes the bell and I froze
hope she loves the smell of my clothes
open the door and give her a hug
realize, I had no reason to bug so
trust me fellas, I know what’s up
I use Gain and I smell like a million bucks
