We all know the smashing hit by Major Lazer, DJ Snake & MØ, don't we? Well, there's something about it you probably didn't know. The video just reached one billion post, and Diplo, one of the Major Lazer members wanted to share a story with us on his Facebook page.
"My first instinct is that we honestly don't belong up here w Tay Tay, Katy Perry, Justin, Psy and all these other videos in the 1 billion view club. We made this video in India on a limited budget during a couple of off days between tour dates in India, no giant label planned it.. It was literally improvised and made up in a few hours.. Actually like 24 hours.
We shot from sunrise to sunrise the next
morning, it was so tiring that the dancers & everyone on set were
sleeping between the takes. In fact, the choreography was more or less
created on site and we all were just trying to learn between takes as
well. We rented this old palace facade, and while it's looks beautiful
on camera, it was just held up by 2x4s and had people sleeping behind
every corner or an animal tied to a post.
Originally we had plans to use
an elephant in the video but after we went over on another shot and it
was time to use the elephant, it had fallen asleep! We thought the
trainer was just milking us for more money, but alas, the elephant was
sound asleep. I tried to find an ATM to get some elephant money out, but
the trainer said "no elephant" if I wake him up he will kill everyone.
Despite not having an elephant, somehow this video still made it to a
billion views and that's because of you! And just as importantly, we did
it independently, the first indie music video to actually hit this
accomplishment. We are feeling like the rebel alliance against the death
star of pop Youtube.
One love."
You can watch the video below, but don't forget - play it loud!
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