Yo Gabba Gabba! releases Yo Gabba
Gabba! Hey! (Deluxe Edition) featuring Papas Fritas
performing Home
Are you a member of the original Gabba
generation?Not sure? Here’s a way to find out! Listen to our
new deluxe streaming reissue of the album Gabba Gabba Hey! and
see what memories it stirs up! ??
April 4th, 2025 - Today
Yo Gabba Gabba! released a deluxe streaming reissue of Yo
Gabba Gabba Hey! which features songs performed by
Papas Fritas, our old pals The Apples in Stereo, Of
Montreal, George Clinton (!) and many more. If you
haven't heard Home, the Tasty Snack from Papas
Fritas, check it out below.
The full deluxe digital
streaming reissue is available on all platforms: find your favorite here.
Papas Fritas Release Revamped Way
You Walk Music Video Ahead of 25th Anniversary of Buildings
and Grounds
Papas Fritas have released a new animated
music video for the song Way You Walk, originally
released by Minty
Fresh Records on the album Buildings and Grounds
in 2000. Featuring band members Shivika Asthana, Keith
Gendel and Tony
Goddess, the video used Runway ML's Generative AI Technology
to animate candy sweet abstractions and augment the
synthesized retro-pop tones of the original track.
'People always seem to mention Way You Walk as one
of their favorites of all our songs. It was used in a Dentyne Ice commercial and released
as a cover in France by the band So featuring Marc Almond of Soft Cell'
says the band's lead singer and songwriter Tony Goddess.
'In many ways Way You Walk is the ultimate Papas
Fritas track. It has Shivika and Keith's great natural
groove and the duet form highlights our different singing
voices. We've recently started revisiting and prepping for
the 25th anniversary of Buildings and Grounds with Minty
Fresh Records, so it's really fun to see the song brought
back to life in 4K with this crazy new video.'
Using cutting edge AI image processing technology called
GEN-1-1 from Runway ML, video director Ross Shain restored and transformed
20 year old footage of the band into a unique cell
animation look with stylistic nods to Matisse lighting and
classic Anime aesthetics.
'I have been exploring generative AI technology for image
processing and visual effects for a few years and only
until very recently have the results become good enough
for professional creatives', says Shain, who is also an
Academy Award-winning technologist and software designer.
'When I got beta access to Runway's Gen-1 technology, I
immediately thought of the original, hand animated video we had done for Way
You Walk many years ago and wanted to see if
AI could be harnessed to enhance the creative process'.
While the resulting video and experience has been
positive, neither Shain nor Goddess claim to be poster
boys for AI technology. 'I'm excited that our audio and
video files from the past can be restored and even
improved by AI technologies, but like so many other
artists, I have major concerns for the future of humans
making art and music', says Goddess. 'As a studio owner
and producer, I use technology every day to record and
write music, but I'm really not interested in a future
where robots replace craft'.
'At the moment there is a lot of promise that generative
AI will replace traditional software tools for video and
music creation, but I'm leaning towards cautiously
optimistic', says Shain. 'This video used AI for the
animation process but it was not a simple automatic
process. Runway is doing really amazing things, but it is
still early stages. Some shots required a hands on
approach and plenty of traditional effects, editing, and
color grading techniques were used to bring a cohesive
look to the entire four minute video'. Shain continues,
'In the much larger picture, there are still issues
concerning the ethics of AI training sets and the
ownership of AI produced content that should come out in
the wash. We're really in uncharted waters at the moment,
but in the right hands, I believe AI can be an empowering
tool for visual artists.'