![]() ![]() After a while, she relaxed and even took a selfie. At first Emma didn’t want to go on the bed because she thought it was gross. Reflecting on the experience, Emma told me that she had to pay for the hotel room with her mom’s credit card because Gus didn’t have any money. According to Jon, Gus was more confident this second time around.Įmma told me that at first, Jon had another girl cast for the video, but Gus texted him saying “I would be way more comfortable having my girlfriend.” He was very nervous about working with a “random girl.” ![]() Battery Full was done, Gus and Jon came together again to shoot Come Around (on January 12.) This time, Gus brought Emma (she drove them). They met at a little motel right near the White Castle on Jericho Turnpike.Įmma and Gus were late because the car Emma had borrowed to get them there kept doing weird things every time they tried to drive fast. The ALIS hat was a Christmas present Oskar had given to Gus.Īfter M.O.S. Gus had convinced Angelo to let him wear the new white coat, and then had placed it on the ground, for effect, in the video. So Gus went ahead and began. Once he began, Jon reports, Gus was "all in."Īngelo told me how the white coat in the video was really his-it was a brand new Christmas present. Right before they began shooting, Gus expressed his nervousness, saying "I’ve never done this before, I don’t know if I can do this."Īt this point, Jon reassured Gus, saying that he would be able to edit the film to make it look great. Ian remembered thinking that he would not have been wearing his sweatpants had he known he would be in a music video.Īccording to Jon, Gus was nervous at first. They wrapped up at the parking lot of the brand-new Target on Jericho Turnpike in Huntington. They drove to several different locations-including Manor Farm, Five Towns College, and Mt. (The amazing back wall of the parking lot had just been built). Jon took Gus and his friends to several different spots on Long Island to shoot including the Target parking lot on Jericho Turnpike on Route 25 in Huntington. But when Gus showed up at the Walt Whitman Mall with Angelo and Ian, Jon became inspired-and he spontaneously placed both of them in the video. There was no plan for the guys to be in the video. ![]() It turned out they would both be cast in the M.O.S. Angelo, home for winter break from Binghamton, was hanging out at Gus's and came along for the ride. When Jon and Gus made plans to work together to shoot their first video-on Long Island-Gus needed a ride to the location because Gus didn't drive, or have a car. When Skil finally sent back the finished video, with all of the crazy animation, Gus was thrilled. He and Emma shot the footage for Drugz, and he sent that to his friend, Lil Skil to edit. Gus had been working with producer John Mello to make the four tracks Drugz, Shiver, M.O.S. He and Emma had made a couple of videos ( Nothing to U, Songs You Hear on a Sinking Ship, Live Forever) and he had shot a bunch of footage with his friend Will to make videos with during the summer. They made plans to work w Jon to make a music video.īy this time, mid-December, 2015, Gus had decided he wanted to make as many videos to go with his songs as he reasonably could. He was impressed by Gus’s video as well as by Gus's music, and contacted Gus on SoundCloud. Jon had seen Gus's Live Forever video "teaser" on JGrxxn’s Instagram page. I spoke with Jon, Emma, Ian and Angelo who were involved in the creation of these two videos to learn more about the making of these videos. Jon and Gus met online-the way Gus met most of his collaborators. ![]() All four of those tracks were produced by John Mello (and one was co-produced with Hector Vae). He had released Lil Peep Part One, Feelz, Live Forever, and several singles, including Star Shopping, the summer before.Īfter Christmas, Gus worked with a budding, local, Long Island director named Jon Francois-who goes by the name of Legacy-to make videos for two of the tracks that he decided to release on a four-track EP called Vertigo. By December 2015, Gus was on a roll releasing music. ![]()
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