Behind Here It Goes Again Video
The ring had already earned a reputation for creating jaw-dropping, instantly viral music videos, from their relatively unproblematic treadmill choreography to an intricately arranged Rube Goldberg machine. But for the band's 2010 hit "White Knuckles," lead singer Damian Kulash and his sister Trish Sie (who co-directed both videos together) wanted an fifty-fifty more than impressive one-take video — only this time, they wanted it to feature animals.
"The original plan was we were going to have chimpanzees in spacesuits trying to do the treadmill dance, only to make fun of ourselves," Kulash tells EW. "We never got the chimpanzees in spacesuits, but that'south where information technology started."
Eventually they landed on the idea of having a bunch of dogs performing detailed choreography for iii and a half minutes. But there was just one problem with their grand plan: Every fauna trainer they asked said it couldn't be done.
"Some people only didn't really go information technology," Kulash recalls. "They were like, 'Here are the things y'all can railroad train a dog to practice, as long as information technology's 15 seconds long.' And we were like, 'No, nosotros desire them to exercise something for iii and a half minutes.'"
Afterwards an exhaustive search, they finally found a willing partner in beast trainer Lauren Henry, from Talented Animals, only to come across their side by side big obstruction… funding the thing. "We called dog food sponsors — Purina almost did information technology with u.s.a. — but in the end, nosotros just had to pay for ourselves because it was too important," Kulash says.
Finally, the real work began. First the band planned the dance using blimp animals as stand-ins for the dogs. Then 12 trainers taught 14 rescue dogs (and one goat!) the choreography for 3 months. The band arrived on set in an empty plastic mill in Oregon a week before cameras started rolling, and they were all impressed with how well the pooches were performing the dance.
"There were some things that they could never learn, simply some things were even better than we had imagined," Kulash says. "It was incredible — the dogs screwed up less than humans do. Dogs are very predictable. What they want is food. And occasionally affection. And in one case in a while they desire to cheque out each other's asses."
But a terminal-minute add-on to the pack of pup performers changed everything when Kulash'south own canine, Bunny (bottom correct photo, on the correct), was recruited on fix. "Bunny was a bad dog generally, but Bunny was so incredibly nutrient-motivated that the trainers were similar, 'You could train this dog to do anything,'" Kulash says. "She was so into food that if you put a bunch of Cheez Whiz on a lawn tennis ball, anything she could encompass, she would do. Information technology was just a thing of pedagogy her and getting her to comprehend what y'all wanted. And she was a dream on ready, generally."
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For 72 takes, Bunny performed her role beautifully. And at that place was only one day left of filming to become. "We were going to get an even better take the adjacent twenty-four hours, nosotros were pretty sure of information technology," Kulash remembers. But after have 72, the band threw a party for all the trainers, the crew, and Kulash's parents, who were visiting the set up. After the party ended, Kulash let Bunny and his other dog, Dora, out to pee, and while Dora returned immediately, Bunny disappeared for an hour and a half.
When Bunny finally returned, she was safety… just she also reeked. "She smelled like the worst bog sewage. It was then bad," Kulash says. "I don't know what she did. She must have found a expressionless animal — but also in, similar, a swamp."
Kulash washed her all night, and to his man nose, she eventually smelled normal once more. "But the side by side twenty-four hour period when we got to set, none of the dogs would work," he says. "We were similar, what's going on? Did they know that yesterday we had a wrap party too early on? Are they just revolting? When we finally got to the section where Bunny comes in — it's virtually a third of the way through the video, and information technology took usa like two hours to just get to that signal because none of the dogs were cooperating — she gets sat downward on that trivial table next to Spike [lesser correct photo, on the left], who smells her and was like, 'Holy due south---, what are you?!' Like this incredible 'What have yous become, Bunny?!' And nosotros realized that, to dogs, Bunny was not anywhere close to make clean."
They tried everything to go Bunny smelling normal again, even going so far equally to wash her in peroxide to get rid of the stench, but nothing worked. And after filming 52 more (failed) takes, they ended upwardly having to employ accept 72 — the last full-accept shot before Bunny'southward disappearing act. "The entire residue of the shoot was gone because of Bunny," Kulash says. "Nosotros never got a better take because of that little… well, bitch."
Bunny died years after, and Kulash loves how she'll forever exist immortalized in "White Knuckles," alongside all the other rescue dogs who pulled off what so many trainers said couldn't be done. And subsequently all the hard work and the uphill battle they weathered before and during the shoot, Kulash knows their job could have been fifty-fifty more difficult if they'd picked a different animal to star in the music video. "Luckily, they're not cats," he says. "Tin yous imagine?"
A version of this story appears in the April outcome of Entertainment Weekly , bachelor on newsstands March 18 . Don't forget to subscribe for more exclusive interviews and photos, merely in EW.
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