♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
- I have a T-shirt with her head on it.
(laughs) It says "whore."
- (boy) A computer! And a car!
Thanks, Mom and Dad. - That's from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
- (Kelly) What the hell? - (mother) What'd you expect?
- She encouraged me to say, "What the hell?"
- (Kelly) I'm going to get what I want. - That's from, uh,
a Cyndi Lauper video.
And that was my high school jacket-- my real high school.
- (singing along) ♪ Oh my god, shoes ♪
♪ (repetitive pop beat) ♪
- (Kelly) ♪ Oh my god, shoes ♪
These shoes rule. - So simple but so iconic.
- (Kelly) ♪ These shoes suck! ♪ ♪ (harsh chord) ♪
♪ Shoes ♪
- That was on Melrose Ave.
- (Kelly) ♪ These shoes suck ♪ - We did not have permits.
- (Kelly) ♪ Oh my god, shoes ♪ (reactors chuckle)
- Me. - That is you.
- (Kelly) ♪ These shoes suck ♪ - You grew up to be her.
- I feel like this would still do well
if this was put out right now today.
♪ (harsh chord) ♪
- (man) I think you have too many shoes. - (Kelly) Shut up.
- (man) I think you have too many shoes.
- That's Ken, Ken Michael. He mixed the song.
- (Kelly) ♪ Oh, by the way, betch ♪
♪ [BLEEP] YOU ♪
♪ [BLEEP] YOU ♪ - Oh my goodness.
- (Kelly) ♪ [BLEEP] YOU ♪ - Oh, the aggression.
- This is the part where my mom would watch and she'd go,
"Oh. I don't know if I like this anymore."
♪ (screech) ♪
- A classic. - Wow, a classic.
- That was a flashback right there. Thank you for that.
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- When I was in middle school, I was like 13,
and I showed everybody that video,
because somebody showed it to me.
And then I feel like I started the trend at my middle school.
- EVERYONE was saying, "Shoes, shoes" always.
It was like a big video at our school. - So you're welcome.
- (Finebros) How was web culture in 2007?
How would you describe it compared to now?
- It's funny. The first thing I remember is stars.
They had stars instead of, like--
Is it thumbs-up now, or is that Facebook?
- The place that videos went viral
was more congregated around places
where people use desktops, like the office.
- It was just like, "Yo, you, everybody, come watch this video."
So everybody would know about a video when it was viral.
- I found out about it on MySpace.
Which, by the way, a little-known fact:
when I was trying to get people to see my videos,
I would leave comments on Liam's MySpace page and say,
"Hey guys, I wear wigs and dresses too!"
- (Finebros) How big of a deal do you think that is
that in 2007, 2008,
someone had some crossover to traditional media?
- That's HUGE.
He was repping for everybody
before we even were needing to be repped.
- That was always the dream, to try and create something
that could give you some crossover potential.
- I'm trying to start a movement,
because we had to go through it for so long,
where it was they're calling-- digital star--
or at least we finally graduated getting the word "star."
Since the next generation doesn't really know
these older actors anyway, we get to have the title of "star,"
and then we just call them "analog stars."
Like, "Oh yeah!
Wait, do you mean one of those analog stars or the new stars?"
- (Finebros) How were online stars viewed back then
compared to now, when even now,
there's still a bit of a stigma? - Nine years ago,
I don't even think you could call someone an online star.
- I remember just being so embarrassed by doing the internet
while I was trying to do comedy in New York
and do improv comedy in theaters
and get real humans to come to a theater.
- Back in 2007, people didn't even know
what an internet star was.
You had Tila Tequila and a drag queen.
So... actually, the internet's not that different anymore.
- (Finebros) What do you think about him having success
but then deciding to stop YouTube?
- Well, I'm sure he has his reasons, but I miss him.
- I mean, I get it.
But at the same time, if he came out with a new thing,
I can see a music video like that.
I've seen music videos recently that are comedic
that have gotten popular.
- I understand why he stopped,
because I've had ups and downs with YouTube,
where I've felt uninspired,
or I felt like maybe I was losing popularity.
You have to evolve every year with YouTube,
because it changes up and down, up and down.
- "Shoes" took, I don't know, three months to make.
It was, you know, just putting people together.
It was kind of magic in a bottle.
I think it was a combination
of me not being able to do it anymore, just creatively,
and an audience that had kinda grown out of what I was doing
or just kinda gone, "Okay.
Well, we love you, but we're moving on."
- (Finebros) So do you think that he should come back to YouTube
and create more content? - I think he not only is capable
of coming back and blowing up bigger than ever,
but I think he should.
- I was so stoked, 'cause at first,
I thought this was a Kelly recreation sort of comeback video,
'cause I couldn't remember the intro.
So yes, I would be so excited to see Kelly again.
- Just because that's such a legendary video,
people would be like, "Oh my god, Kelly."
Like, she's iconic.
- (Finebros) Would you ever consider coming back to YouTube
as Kelly, kind of seeing what YouTube is now?
- Yes.
When I was at Maker, I did some collabs with Kelly and stuff.
But it was all like, "What are we doing?"
- (Finebros) So you do think that
it's possible you would come back? - Yes.
I've thought about trying to do something that's more like...
like who I am now.
I was looking at the video, seeing the dad character.
And I was like, "Oh, I'm him now. That's me."
(chuckles)
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