I’d never seen anything like this before (I learned about it after reading a post at SoupyTrumpet [1]). It’s a song based on a speech Barack Obama delivered in New Hampshire on January 8, 2008. The music is performed by will.i.am of the rap group Black Eyed Peas, assisted by a large ensemble:
Jesse Dylan, Common, Scarlett Johansson, Herbie Hancock, Tatyana Ali, Nick Cannon, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, John Legend, Kate Walsh, Aisha Tyler, Amber Valletta, Taryn Manning, Nicole Scherzinger, Adam Rodriguez, Alfonso Ribeiro, Austin Nichols, Ed Kowalczyk, Eric Balfour, Esthero, Harold Perrineau, Johnathon Schaech, Kelly Hu, Maya Rubin, and Tracee Ellis Ross.
The video was obviously the result of an incredible job of editing, as well as a highly coordinated performance. Somehow, despite all of the technical hurdles faced by the performers and technicians, the video is also, at its core, musical. I’m not the only one impressed; the video has more than one million views on YouTube, despite being posted a couple days ago.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY[/youtube]
[Note: SoupyTrumpet http://soupytrumpet.com/ [2] is a new site run by the designer of this site, Nick Smith.]
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