i didn't expect there to be a song in this that i would become very addicted to and that's despite
fact that one of the songs in this i have been listening to for the best part of about 15 years i
am of course talking about mary kate and ashley's our first video this is a 30 minute or so special
that aired um or was released in 1993 and as it all suggests this is their their first project
outside of full house their first main project outside of full house and medicaid actually would
have been about six at the time of recording and it's absolutely adorable this is directed by well
several people including wl boyd rick freidberg and one of my favorite directors gary halverson
written primarily by michael cruzon who went on to work with mary kate and ashley in the adventures
of series and this is basically a few clips of them talking to the camera interspersed with
songs dance numbers uh little music videos if you like and it's so cute what is pretty incredible
about this the number of costume changes i didn't count how many different costume changes they have
but i can confirm that it's awful if it's an awful uh it's awfully a lot i don't know where that
sentence came from and they're absolutely adorable so if you're american ashley fan you absolutely
need to watch this so with regards to the song that i've been listening to for about 15 years
this is identical twins and i know tragically i know the words to this off by heart because
i have been listening to it for a long time when i actually sat down to watch it though
as part of this our first video i listen to the lyrics and i think this is basically the kind
of message that they have been trying to give out their entire certainly their entire teenage years
and um maybe when they were younger pretty older preteens is the fact that even though they are
twins they are their own people now they're not identical they are fraternal so i find this song
a little bit peculiar but we are fraternal twins probably doesn't have the same ring to it but i
love the fact that the song is trying to send this message that they are you know we read different
stories we watch different shows we have slightly different colored hair we wear different bows
they are different individual people they just look like a very very cute music video
absolutely love it my favorite song in this and i didn't expect to have a favorite song
there's one buffalo to buffalo and it's so silly and i just love some of the wacky
plurals that they come up with and and certainly i don't know how many takes this took but for a
five six maybe seven year old to sing something this complex while dancing and you know performing
in front of a camera it it takes great talent and it's really impressive and something that i was
genuinely moved by but i also really liked the song as well i thought it was pretty funky and
i liked it a lot the other songs um peanuts songs not bothered by shapes in the city
um not one that i remember too well i am the cute one is cute it is just that there are sometimes
when they feel quite young and then there are times when they feel like they're their age
which might not make sense when i've said it out loud but i think it's just the way
they do their hair and they dress and they can kind of make them look
a lot younger than they are and that was kind of true as they were growing up maybe because
of their height they're now the same height height as me we're all five foot give or take
but i think it worked in their favor to make them look even cuter and younger
i think one of the most powerful ones is mom's song where they're just sitting on chairs singing
this beautiful slow song to their mother and i can't even imagine what that would have felt like
but probably the most iconic not for me but in terms of the most well-known is brother for sale
where they're trying to sell trent which is it's good fun actually i didn't like it as much as i
thought i would have done by which i mean for me it's not my favorite i prefer identical twins and
one buffalo two buffalo eye it is very very sweet though and
apparently this was elizabeth olsen's first role she does cameo in this um which makes perfect
sense that this is mary kate and ashley's first main role outside of full house if you're not an
olsen fan i don't think you'll get anything out of this it's silly it's good fun quite dated so
many costume changes some very wacky very nineties editing and fast zooms and yeah very dated in that
regard but if you like mary kate and ashley also give this a watch i think you will truly adore it
and don't take it seriously though it's beautiful it brings back so many memories of the ones i was
aware of it's delightful to experience these two young children with a lot of talent and
the most beautiful big eyes i think that one of the reasons the olsens did so well was
because they had these massive eyes that were so adorable their facial expressions have always been
insane absolutely love them needless to say very big fan of them although i didn't see our first
video when i was growing up glad i finally had the chance to see it it is it's absolutely adorable