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I was listening to Gnarls Barkley (Cee Lo Green & DangerMouse) this morning and viewed a couple of their videos - really creative spec type stuff. I've noticed that most of the collaborations in which DangerMouse has been involved almost always have a spec quality to the music and videos. 

Check out Cee Lo as a bug in Gone Daddy, Gone and while the video for Transformer (from album St. Elsewhere) is not spec, the subject can be. Cee Lo has always been a wild child - check - Closet Freak. 

DangerMouse collab'ed with James Mercer from The Shins to create the group Broken Bells. You may remember DJ/Producer from his mixing of Jay Z's Black Album and The Beatles White Album to create the Grey Album - a highly downloaded, yet illegal (according to the megamusic corps) mix. I really liked his turn with the Gorillaz on Demon Days a while back. He's got a serious streak of creativity. 

I actually looked for the Broken Bells song 'High Road' online because of (ugh) a Microsoft Bing commercial (it sort of had a Maxie Priest sound). From there I took a look at The Ghost Inside which is creepy-good. Talk about costing an 'arm and a leg'.  There's definitely more to come from DangerMouse. 

But here's my question - Is the 'spec' in the songs themselves or just in the musical productions, or videos?

"But maybe I'm crazy

Maybe you're crazy

Maybe we're crazy

Probably."