This Too Shall Pass

This is the third single from American rock band OK Go's third studio album, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky.

The band recorded a video for this anthemic song with the Notre Dame marching band. Frontman Damian Kulash told Spin magazine: "That was a hell of a lot of fun. There were 200 kids from the marching band and local elementary schools making it with us. That was a real high."

A second video was filmed, for which the band spent six months designing, building and implementing a two-story-tall Rube Goldberg mechanical device with the help of Syyn Labs, a Los Angeles-based arts and technology collective. The contraption they developed triggers a series of complex reactions all in time to the upbeat tune. Frontman Damian Kulash told MTV News: "Our band has always had a running list of things we'd like to do if somebody gave us the time or the money, and the Rube Goldberg machine has been on there for a long time. The barrier to entry with it is that you have to be a little crazy, you have to have a lot of time, and you have to be really, really patient. Of course, we had a lot of help. The people we were working with, they have day jobs at the jet-propulsion labs. They built the Mars Rover. They know how to make a set of dominoes fall over. I don't think any of us anticipated how much work it would be."