Photo © 2005 NICOLE SZALEWSKI
The band s bio by Ira Glass, producer and host of the public radio show This American Life:
A couple years ago, OK Go performed at some live shows This American Life was doing onstage in several cities. I and the other writers on the program would do our thing, tell our little stories, and in between our bits, the lads would come out and sing their loud, catchy songs. It was like traveling with living catnip. We had huge crowds and people of every age—high school sophomores to senior citizens—just LOVED them, couldn t get enough, couldn t stop talking about OK Go. I wish I could describe what was so special about it; suffice it to say that the band simply overwhelmed the audience with this exuberant buzz of fun and happiness and youth and rock n roll. They were sexy in a way that had a kind of well-scrubbed pop innocence to it, but also was able to move a friend into murmuring backstage, I want to ---- all four of them. This seemed to be a common response.
Another thing the audience liked about OK Go: they seemed sm... (
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