Carbon Costume

Crash Adams is a Canadian pop alternative duo consisting of singer Rafaele Massarelli and guitarist Vince Sasso. “Give Me A Kiss” is an upbeat love song from their 2023 album, California Girl. The music video was filmed in Los Angeles and features the duo handing out compliments to locals. They circle through a few different suits, but this is the most recognizable from their album cover. The video has and the song has 21 million views on Youtube over 52 million streams on Spotify.

Olivia Rodrigo is a popular singer-songwriter and actress that is best known so far from her role in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series on Disney+ and followed this with her hit album SOUR in 2021. This previous year she released her second album called GUTS in 2023. She also did a recorded live performance through Vevo of some popular hits from her new album like ‘get him back!’ And ‘all-american b*tch.’

There are a few different fun and sparkly looks in this video like her blue sequin square neck mini dress, and her more casual one with a white tank top, sequin shorts, silver hoop earrings, and a microphone.

In the music video for “Peaches”, one of the featured songs from The Super Mario Bros. Movie in which he voices Bowser, Jack Black dresses in a green sequin suit and belts out a tune about his undying love for Princess Peach. He repeats the word “Peaches” about a hundred times, seated at a peach-colored grand piano with a bowl of peaches on top.

Avril Lavigne is a Canadian musician who helped popularize the pop-punk sound that defined much of the early 2000s.  Her breakout hit was Sk8er Boi from her first album.  In the music video for it, Avril dons heavy eyeliner, a trucker hat, Converse sneakers, and her signature tie.  In Addition, Avril wears black and white striped socks, black pants, a wallet chain, and studded bracelets.  The t-shirt she wears in the video is green with yellow text.  You can find replica versions online, or choose another green t-shirt with a fitting theme.

Help! is a wacky comedy film from 1965 that follows The Beatles as they are on the run and trying to protect Ringo Starr from a cult that is after him. In between beats in the story, of course they have musical moments where they stop and perform their songs.

Two of these songs that feature this specific costume worn by Paul McCartney are The Night Before and I See You. The costume consists of an all beige suit with matching beige boots and a turtleneck sweater to match. Add a black mop-top wig to complete the look!

I Feel Fine is a music video and song by The Beatles from 1965. This song was released on the Capitol album Beatles ‘65. This silly music video is in black and white and features all 4 members Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. They each dress similarly with some unique elements to their outfit. George wears a brown turtleneck sweater, black dress pants, and black shoes. You can replace the brown sweater with gray if you’d like to keep the black and white look of the music video itself when doing a group costume. Paul and Ringo wear the same outfit: a black turtleneck, black dress pants, and black shoes. And finally, John wears a black turtleneck, black blazer, gray pants, and black shoes.

Boygenius, a band that consists of singers Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker. They recently released their new album The Record and created, as well as starred in, a short film of three music videos directed by Kristen Stewart called The Film. The three songs featured are $20, Emily I’m Sorry, and True Blue. The artists wear similar outfits throughout all three videos, but each are unique to each person. In the final song True Blue, they paint a room completely blue and end up with it on themselves, which can be recreated with fabric paint, acrylic paint, and blue face paint for the skin.

To dress like Julien Baker in the video, wear a white sweater, black jeans, and to add more you can layer an orange safety vest like she wears during the first two songs in the film.

Boygenius, a band that consists of singers Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker. They recently released their new album The Record and created, as well as starred in, a short film of three music videos directed by Kristen Stewart called The Film. The three songs featured are $20, Emily I’m Sorry, and True Blue. The artists wear similar outfits throughout all three videos, but each are unique to each person. In the final song True Blue, they paint a room completely blue and end up with it on themselves, which can be recreated with fabric paint, acrylic paint, and blue face paint for the skin.

To dress like Lucy Dacus in the video, wear a soft/brushed white sweater with black jeans. She also has blue paint on her clothes at earlier points in the video, so that would be a perfect addition to this costume.