@willeygoat
Instagram · Skit
@willeygoat THE GOAT!!! STAND UP TOUR DATES 📍Louisville, KY 4/29 📍Fort Wayne, IN 4/30 📍Chicago, IL 5/1 and 5/2 📍Oklahoma City, OK 5/20 📍Tulsa, OK 5/21 📍Portland, OR 6/2 📍Tacoma, WA 6/3 📍Spokane, WA 6/4 📍Philadelphia, PA 7/30 📍Buffalo, NY 9/23 📍 Rochester, NY 9/24 📍Austin, TX 10/15 📍Atlanta, GA 10/22 MORE DATES TO COME
Performance
Video #28422 · Skit
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The creator, roleplaying as a music producer, delivers a monologue of increasingly absurd and satirical ideas for an album with musician Noah Kahan, focusing on hyper-specific and stereotypical New England themes like fall festivals, flannel, and maple syrup.
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What stops the scroll in the first 3 seconds
Title hook · 35%
POV you're making an album with Noah Kahan
Verbal hook · 60%
Every song on the album needs to be worse specific to New England, but yet somehow still make people who have never lived there in their entire life feel nostalgic for it.
Visual hook · 5%
A direct-to-camera, medium close-up shot of the creator speaking expressively. A prominent professional microphone is visible in the frame, establishing a studio or recording context.
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Steal this for your own video
Every needs to be more specific to , but still make people who’ve never experienced it feel nostalgic for it.
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The promise the opener makes, and how the video pays it back
Hook
A 'Point of View' (POV) premise that puts the viewer in a relatable but exaggerated scenario, immediately establishing the context and comedic tone.
Payoff
The final, most impossible demand serves as a definitive punchline, providing a satisfying and hilarious conclusion to the escalating absurdity.
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The structural pattern this video runs on
Framework
The Escalating Absurdity Mandate
A character in a position of authority (e.g., director, coach, manager) gives a series of increasingly specific, nonsensical, and impossible directions for a project, delivered with complete seriousness. The humor derives from the parody of a known aesthetic and the escalation of the absurd demands.
The Core Thesis
Establishes the central, paradoxical creative challenge that defines the entire project, setting the foundation for the subsequent absurdities.
The Tangible Absurdity
Provides the first concrete, physically strange instruction, grounding the abstract thesis in a silly, tangible action.
The Synesthetic Mandate
Escalates from physical to sensory absurdity by demanding an object or element embody a specific, abstract feeling or hyper-specific memory.
The Impossible Material
Presents a demand that is physically impossible, breaking the laws of physics for the sake of the established aesthetic.
The Sensory Paradox
Pushes the synesthesia to its logical, absurd conclusion by demanding a sensory experience be translated into another, incompatible one (e.g., a sound from a taste) and confidently dismissing any logical objections.
The Thematic Bait-and-Switch
Shifts focus from production to content, juxtaposing a simple, wholesome concept with a profoundly complex or serious underlying theme.
The Emotional/Sensory Contradiction
Combines a demand for a powerful emotional impact with another impossible sensory demand, creating the ultimate paradoxical goal.
The Ultimate Escalation
Delivers the final, climactic demand that is so over-the-top (often involving a mythical or divine element) it serves as the ultimate punchline, topping all previous absurdities.
THE GOAT!!! STAND UP TOUR DATES 📍Louisville, KY 4/29 📍Fort Wayne, IN 4/30 📍Chicago, IL 5/1 and 5/2 📍Oklahoma City, OK 5/20 📍Tulsa, OK 5/21 📍Portland, OR 6/2 📍Tacoma, WA 6/3 📍Spokane, WA 6/4 📍Philadelphia, PA 7/30 📍Buffalo, NY 9/23 📍 Rochester, NY 9/24 📍Austin, TX 10/15 📍Atlanta, GA 10/22 MORE DATES TO COME
title · throughout
POV you're making an album with Noah Kahan
Every song on the album needs to be worse specific to New England, but yet somehow still make people who have never lived there in their entire life feel nostalgic for it. I'm thinking we should take my Boston Red Sox hat and and just put it in the drums. I want this guitar to feel like it just stepped off a Ferris wheel at a fall festival in New England. I'm thinking a crisp 65 degree day. Let's go Thursday, 10/03/2016, specifically. For this song, I'm thinking we do fully acoustic, but I want all the instruments to be made out of flannels. I want this one to sound exactly like apple cider. And I know what you're thinking. Apple cider doesn't make a sound. Not yet it doesn't. Not yet it doesn't. So for this song, I'm thinking it's about a pumpkin fun. Right? But it's also a metaphor somehow for devastatingly relatable mental health issues. I want this one to cause physical pain in people's best when they listen to it, but simultaneously sound like maple syrup tastes. See, I feel like this song could use a feature, but I just I what if we're not able to get anybody good? You know? I'm just kidding. Could you imagine? No. I'll get Jesus himself to feature on this truck. Are you kidding me?