iLL 5 makes video debut

It took three hours and 205 cups of chocolate snack pack pudding for Brice Fox and Daniel Weber to fill a baby pool for one small portion of their newest video.

The stars of the YouTube Hoosier videos “IU Anthem” and “This Is Indiana” had one last idea on their senior checklist to cross off, and they needed pudding to make it a success.

IU tailgates: been there.

Hoosier basketball: done that.

All that remained in Bloomington was the Little 500 — and one pudding match — to describe the World’s Greatest College Weekend.

Weber and Fox didn’t just want a song about being on a bike or riding with no handlebars.

This one was going to be about the Little 500 experience — or as they like to call it, iLL 5.

The video is debuting Friday on YouTube and the song will be free to download through a link with the video.

“iLL 5 represents the fictional, magical five days that precede the Little 500 race,” Fox said. “It consists of crazy, outrageous events. And basically, iLL is just like a slang term for cool, so it’s like the cool five days before the race.”

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On the second floor of a house on Hunter Avenue, Weber is jumping around the bedroom-turned-studio of Daniel Olson, better known as DJ O.

He’s running through his part again, trying to get the words down.

“And the party don’t stop / Cuz every night lookin’ like GLOWfest / Every day lookin’ like no rest.” Weber hums the line over and over.

DJ O’s eyes haven’t really moved from his side-by-side Dell screens. His mouse travels across his mouse pad in erratic patterns.

He tweaks the beat and puts some last-second changes to the mix.
Fox and Weber bob their heads as they listen.

As the beat ends, Weber, in his “FAME” Dope Couture shirt, throws on a pair of shutter shades.

“Whatever, we make mediocre songs,” Weber says with a grin. “Get over it.”

Fox walks to the mike and throws the headphones on to begin recording.

“Indiana’s in the house tonight / Here to party for the Little Five,” Fox sings.
And with just one line, the two seniors record another IU tradition into an anthem.

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Weber stood in the garage of a house nicknamed “The Mansion,” waiting for the party to get started for one of many video shoots.

“We wanted to get a big vat from Sam’s Club, but they stopped selling them today,” Weber said.

A kiddy pool of chocolate pudding sits on the concrete floor behind him.

“We went to Wal-Mart, and in the end, left them with one cup of chocolate pudding. Brice and I ripped them open label by label. It took forever.”

The small pool of chocolate pudding was eventually added to a bigger inflatable pool.

More flour, water and premade pudding was added to the mix until the crowd of more than 40 people agreed it was enough. It was time for pudding wrestling.

“Yo, we’re gonna start the first round right now,” Fox said.

As female contestants lined up with just two pieces of clothing remaining, Fox and Weber and their fans, who were invited via Facebook, sang along to iLL 5.

Two videographers from Winky Productions tried to shoot video from their Canon cameras while avoiding stray pudding and the chocolate-covered arms that flailed near their cameras’ edges.

“I would definitely say it’s more edgier,” Fox said later about the song. “It’s definitely something that caters toward the students than the family.”

The same can be said about the video. Dressed in their iLL 5 T-shirts, Weber and Fox found their way into the pudding with the girls.

“We understand ‘This is Indiana’ reached out across the nation,” Weber said. “Whereas this is our turn to make really fun dance-pop music. The song is intended to speak out to students and incoming freshman.”

As the bass rattled the garage doors and the pudding traveled further from the tub, the techno beat stopped. And the two words that Fox and Weber yelled on the recording made everyone cheer.

“GET WASTED!”