OK Go's Ground-breaking Style Gets Attention of the Grammy's, Super Bowl, Chevrolet and Sesame Street

It's almost Grammy time, and one of Elmhurst's own local heroes will be sharing the spotlight with such notables as Adele, Kanye, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars.

Perhaps in its category, Best Short Form Music Video, the band OK Go will own the spotlight at the Grammy's, as they have in so many other arenas.

This world-famous band, whose drummer is is up for a Grammy for the music video, "All is Not Lost." If they win, it will be their second Grammy Award; the video for "Here it Goes Again" won in 2007.

Konopka, who grew up in Elmhurst and graduated from York High School in 1992, started out playing in the home-grown jazz fusion band Shaka Guru, with some other York students.

Today, OK Go continues to break new ground with its elaborate, innovative videos that truly can't be described in words.

In addition to the Grammy-nominated song, OK Go's "Needing/Getting" video—in which a tricked-out Chevy Sonic plays 288 guitars, 55 pianos and 1,157 homemade instruments—got the attention of Chevrolet. The auto giant used it in an ad that ran during last Sunday's Super Bowl.

And that's not all. On Feb. 2, OK Go made its debut on "Sesame Street," in a 1 1/2-minute short about primary colors.

Apparently, there is no end in sight for these guys.

In the category of Best Short Form Music Video, OK Go will be up against "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele, "Yes I Know" by Memory Tapes, "Lotus Flower" by Radiohead, "First of the Year (Equinox)" by Skrillex and "Perform This Way" by Weird Al Yankovic.

The 54th annual Grammy Awards will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, on CBS.