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all photos: Dakota Fine
all words: Svetlana

If you were a certain kind of person, interested in certain kind of stuff (and lets face it, you’re reading this website, so you probably are that certain kind of person) the whole saga of the making of the first video for the Party Bros (aka Gavin Holland and Chris Burns) track “OOOBayBay” was inescapable this summer. The casting calls, the shoots and reshoots, the flyers, the controversy, and the inevitable question “Will this ish be any good?” were floating around everywhere. Thankfully Chris and Gavin were wise enough to recruit Patrick Longstreth (byt contributor, creationist museum enthusiast and video director extraordinaire) fresh off of his work with Juan McLean to help the process along.
With less than a 1000 dollar budget, an army of volunteers (in bikinis and otherwise, many of whom suffered bee stings during the shoot and persevered), Matthew Lesko, a 200 dollar rented stingray corvette (gotten off of craigslist from a “some dude trying to sell it”) and a cast of cameos that read’s like a “who’s who of your DC dance party needs”, something beautiful and hilarious (and very self-aware) happened.
The song itself samples my personal favorite jam circa ‘89. so it is only natural that the video takes inspiration from a number of 80s movie favorites: Caddyshack, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Sandlot, Back to the Future and that “Sound of silence” moment in the Graduate.
It is fast, it is fun, it is shiny, and considering the weather outside, it is EXACTLY what you need to be looking at RIGHT NOW

So without further a-do, lets all watch the world blog premiere of the final (tongue so deep in cheek, it may as well be in between teeth) product

directed by Patrick Longstreth and produced by Chris Burns, Gavin Holland, Patrick Longstreth and Tiffany Rose Goodyear

and now lets look at some photos from the premiere sail party the boys threw with DURKL on the Potomac (on board of “Celebrity”, which was a beautiful experience and highly recommended for all) which may as well be entitled “Pin a tail on the DC “hipster”", as well as a couple from the Wonderland official CUNT afterparty.

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