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Our Chart Topping DIY Music Video

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.

Hush Shelves

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.

Hush Fingers

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

Hush John Gangsta

Wait, but we have one more thing to tell you…

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Hush April Fools

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.

Comments

  1. Jen says

    I came to the site specifically thinking, ” I wonder what YHL did for April Fools Day this year.” I read through the give-away post, and apparently that was enough to scrub my consciousness of any awareness of April Fools Day because I got to the music video post and I was like, “What the what???” You totally had me going until the “HUSH” picture, and then I was like, “Oh yeah, duh!” I do in fact feel foolish so…mission accomplished, YHLovers!

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  6. KiwiKat says

    yo yo yo …whaaaaaaaatttt???
    Love it $herdog – although I’m worried about Lucille…I thought Lucille was a boy?

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  8. mribaro says

    Ok, it was your April Fools Day joke – but I still want the other two verses of the song! :) It’s a HIT! At least among the DIY-YoungHouseLoveFans crowd :)

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  10. Ilse den Besten says

    Hahaha that was just hilarious. I think it actually sounds pretty cool, maby you should finish it and ask Macklemore to join you!

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  11. S says

    Well, I fell for it, but that’s because I saw it on the 2nd.

    Sherry, I love your hair down! What a great way to start off my morning, thanks for that.

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  16. Lauryn Ann says

    Haha!! You guys totally had me at first! I was about to freak out of this was real. That would have been awesome!! Even the little bit did not disappoint. So fun. Thanks for being so creative! Happy April Fools Day!

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  29. kimberly says

    That was hilarious. Thanks for the fun fools. Also, I see them in pics often, but the video really called attention to both of your lovely smiles. :) Clara was destined for a beautiful happy face!

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  33. Jen says

    That was great! I love the outtakes – “You don’t really need music to dance.” Hah. I bet it took quite a while to film enough for that short song with all the outtakes.

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  34. Steph says

    I totally thought this was real but in a “we have a musician friend so we thought we’d play around and make a funny music video” kind of way. You guys should make a whole song and the video to go with it! If Macklemore can do a song about thrift shopping, a song about DIY really isn’t that much of a stretch!! :)

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  36. Amy says

    This was amazeballs…. I am laughing and smiling ear to ear, you guys are so fun….but I wish you would finish this song!

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  44. Jess says

    Too funny! And Sherry, you have such a great head of hair…I’m seriously so jealous. From what I’ve gathered your hair care regime is pretty low-maintenance and it looks FABULOUS. :-)

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  47. Rachelle S says

    Loved it! Love that you guys don’t take yourselves too seriously (for NY Times Best Selling authors!) LOL : )

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  48. Mina says

    glad it was just an April Fool’s! It felt awkward watching you guys rap! Hahahah! Still love you both though! :)

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  49. elizabeth says

    LOLOL…I nearly just choked on my breakfast sandwich, yo!
    This was awesome…Sherry, you nailed Busta’s ‘yaw, yaw,yo”
    silly kids :)
    ~elizabeth
    nella designs

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