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Category: Answered Requests

Request #11: Answered.

“Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” with David Culver Senft performing the rap” – Victoria “Posh” Beckham We’re excited to unveil the first video of it’s kind, a buskompilation video of multiple performances of the same song. Now that we’re home and we have some time on our hands (and hi-speed internet to boot), we’ve got a bunch [...]

Request #9: Answered.

…American Boy by Estelle while wearing the most obnoxiously American outfit you own. Preferably in front of the Eiffel Tower. Thank you kindly. -ASchap Alissa is owed an added shoutout for being a BTD superfan. We thank you kindly. Also, since we were anyway decorating ourselves in Americana, an “American Boy/Party in the USA” mashup [...]

Request #8: Answered.

“Just Friends” by Musiq Soulchild -Carolyn Filmed in Slovenia. Pow!

Request #7: Answered

We were asked by Joey Horn, esteemed Williams alum and one of Darlingside’s greatest champions, to put together our first “ad” busk to encourage contributions to the class of ’87 alumni fund. With pleasure, we said.

Request #6: Answered.

In a personal email to his son, Mr. Yudkin asked for any Beatles song to be performed in front of this particular church in Venice. We were more than happy to oblige.

Request #5 Answered.

…“The Seed 2.0″ by The Roots… -BenHo Ljubljana. August 2010. What in God’s name is Auyon doing in a rain jacket.

Request #4: Answered (Don’t tell Liz yet!).

“…would love recognition of Liz turning 50 on 9/11. She loves Italy and Dave Matthews’ Crash Into Me.” – Greg Happy almost birthday, Liz. We love Italy every bit as much as you do. And Dave has never been so excited as he was for his role in this one.

Request #3: Answered.

Ok, technically this fulfills two requests, and technically one of them was from Dave’s mom. Also, technically we also fulfilled a request to bring the music of Ricky Martin to the people of Poland, but we’re not sure that should get its own full blog post. “Falling Slowly from Once” – Ellie, MamaS

Request #2: Answered.

The request: Video of Dave singing Good Man with a famous historical landmark in background… – Mike Hockertz

Request #1: Answered.

The request: “Paint yourselves gold, bronze, and or silver. Possibly include swords, definitely lances. OR, one word: MIMES with pantaloons. Okay, three.” – H. W. Weedon The response: Well, we didn’t get the paint… but given the very prominent “OR” in the request, we still feel like we went above and beyond. You decide?