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Tuesday, February 05, 2019

Contrafactum of "Little Drummer Boy" by Pentatonix
This contrafactum is to go over the dangers of driving a tall vehicle under a low bridge - particularly a bridge whose clearance is lower than the vehicle's height.
http://11foot8.com/ - 11foot8 - a site compiling overheight bridge strikes
https://www.reddit.com/r/11foot8/ - 11foot8 subreddit about overheight crashes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11_foot_8_Bridge - A low bridge's Wikipedia article

A montage of pictures and possibly videos of tall vehicles having struck low bridges are to be shown in the music vid.

Contrafactum of "Forget About Love" by Gilbert Gottfried, Brad Kane, Liz Callaway / Disney
The contrafactum is about older, bigger, fuel-guzzling pick-up trucks (that I call "Incandescent trucks" as a form of insider slang because big pick-up trucks are inefficient vehicles like how incandescent light bulbs are inefficient forms of lighting.)

Any clip of bigger, fuel-guzzling pick-up trucks are to be included in the music video.
As budgets improve, trucks fitting the above description may be rented for the music video while the actors drive and sing the lyrics.

Music video should show the new driver signing a contract in an office of what is CLEARLY a truck leasing company.
Cut to a scene where he at first gets comfortably settled into his new truck, admiring the digs inside the cab, then gets his first load assignment.
Another scene, he shows apprehension when looking at his pay deposit, which isn't as high as he'd hoped, because all leasing and operating expenses ate up so much of the income, then cut to a driving scene where he looks and feels anxious since he can't use up too much fuel, so he must figure out how to hypermile his truck.
In a later scene, his truck suffers mechanical problems. At a repair shop (either at his company's or one his company contracts, he's faced with the bill to restore the truck to prime operating condition, and has a hard time coming to terms with those expenses; he has to pay a good portion of his own money towards it.
Later scene, tax time comes; he can't come to grips with crippling taxes that break him, making him decide to quit the truck leasing gig; his facial expression and body language shows clear exasperation at the failure of this gig when he parks the truck near the leasing office, and SLAMS his keys onto the desk of the one who cancels his contract.
One of the final scenes shows him opting to be a company driver, and feeling visibly happier at his new job where his income is better thanks to not having to deal with all the leasing fees and fuel costs.