American band OK Go are used to breaking the internet with their creative music videos.
Now they've tried to make it look like they're breaking the laws of physics.
Their new Upside Down & Inside Out video is filmed entirely in zero gravity using cosmonaut training facilities in Russia.
The band travelled to the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre last year - the same facility where the UK's Tim Peake was trained before his mission to the International Space Station.
The video was filmed inside the plane-laboratory Ilyushin Il-76MDK, where cosmonauts are acclimatised to zero gravity.
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Posted by OK Go on Thursday, February 11, 2016
The band, crew and instructors made 21 flights on a plane that climbed as high as 9,000 metres. The pilot then switched off the engine, effectively starting a free fall to create the effect of zero gravity.
The effect only lasts for between 20 and 30 seconds, but the band managed to do 15 "dives" - giving them a total of seven minutes in zero gravity.
The video was then divided into eight choreographed parts, each 21-seconds long, creating the illusion that the whole video was filmed in one take.
The video, published on band's Facebook page, has gone viral and has been watched more than 22 million times in one day.
In an interview with the Russian Rolling Stone magazine, lead singer Damian Kulash said they had been dreaming about creating a video in zero gravity for a long time.
As space was out of bounds, an imitation of zero gravity was the next best thing.
"I still get disoriented after each dive, but I am getting used to the sensation of zero gravity," Kulash said after one of the flights.
"Anyway after each flight you feel like never want to do that thing again. When you land it feels like you weigh twice as much."
OK Go's creation is the first music video to be filmed in zero gravity without going into space.
Canadian astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield managed the real thing when he filmed his cover of David Bowie's Space Oddity on the International Space Station in 2013.
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