Summer Boredom Leads SMHS Musicians to Make Music Video (VIDEO)

When incoming senior Tao-Tao Lin asked his fellow SMHS musicians to make a music video, he had two requirements:

No one could use sheet music, except the rapper in the video, and no looping would be allowed so the musicians had to play the Flobots song "Handlebars" from start to finish without stopping.

Lin then edited together the separate musician and vocalist performances to create the video.

"If viewers do not get the meaning of the video, it is about human nature," Lin told Patch. "Human nature can be explored as simplistic and innocent (riding a bike with no handlebars), but we can also be dark and corruptive inside ('I can end the planet in a holocaust'). An individual human being has limitless possibilities they can inflict on the world, whether it is a positive or a negative."

Lin said he made the video because he had nothing else to do during the summer and always wanted to collaborate with his friends on a song.

While Lin said making videos is a hobby for now, he hopes to major in film in college or perhaps work in the music industry.

The music video cast includes:

Kristen Wong, guitar, SMHS Class of 2014

William Su, first vocalist, SMHS Class of 2012

Robert Moreton, string bass, SMHS Class of 2012

Michael Chen, drums, SMHS Class of 2011

Albert Hu, rapper, SMHS Class of 2012

Leslie Chae, violin, SMHS Class of 2012

Tao-Tao Lin, trumpet/editor, SMHS Class of 2012