Anything Can Happen on Halloween - MP3!

Yeah, so this was an odd one. I admit it.

This weird little spooky song from the 80s has been a running Halloween joke between myself and my partner for years and every Halloween since the channel took off we've joked 'what if we just made that video again ourselves?'

Well this year I decided the time had come.

A super accurate, faithful as possibly, 1:1, shot-for-shot remake of a ridiculously bad music video from before I was even born.

You're probably all wondering 'why?'.

Well the quick, easy answer, the one I have given publicly online, is that after several very large, intense and difficult projects I just wanted a silly little palette cleanser.

And that's absolutely true, it was great to have a mini low-stakes project to work on for the first time in a long time. But it's not the whole truth.

If I can get a little deep with you for a minute here, folks. This project was, for me, a form of therapy, and was about addressing my relationship with my work.

I know that probably sounds ludicrous, I mean, look at this bizarre little video. But stick with me.

I'm a workaholic and an obsessive perfectionist. I pour everything I have into everything I make to the detriment of my mental and physical health. It's a battle I have been fighting with myself for a long time and I am working to get a better and healthier relationship with my work.

I fixate on making the best possible thing to the point of madness because I feel like if I don't, I am letting my audience and myself down and over time, it's started to rob me of the fun of creating. So how to force myself to not do that? Even if only for one small project?

By making something nobody asked for.

Nobody can be disappointed in something they never wanted in the first place.

By choosing to make my silly little joke project that was sure to confuse most people and amuse only me (even my team raised eyebrows when I told them this was what we were doing), I was able to have fun with it, to not fret over whether people would like it, because it was already certain nobody would anyway.

This one was just for me. I got to set myself a fun challenge of re-making a weird video with absolutely zero stakes if I failed. And when the inevitable 'Yeah, Stupes, this one was a miss.' comments showed up, they bounced off. Because it was a miss by design.

I love making the huge video productions I've become known for. But I miss having the freedom to make weird personal experiments and oddities without fearing for negative feedback or a negative hit in 'the algorithm' that can come from taking risks. So that's what this was.

Will there be more things like this? I don't know! But I really want to find room to try new things every now and then. I hope sandwiching this one with a cool new FNAF remix softened the blow a little. ;)

Now, back to work on the 4 or 5 actually algorithmically viable and marketable projects I have in development. :P

-Stupes