Claud is such a giant fan of Paul Rudd that they really have a track titled “Paul Rudd” on their album Supermodels. In keeping with the singer-songwriter, the 2 had a serendipitous encounter on Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour that resulted in Rudd being forged of their new music video — for an additional observe, “A Good Factor.”
Following the discharge of “A Good Factor,” Claud defined how the sudden but pleasant collaboration got here to be.
“I randomly met him in passing at The Eras Tour, like on the Taylor Swift live performance,” they stated in a TikTok clip uploaded on Saturday (July 15). “I walked previous the VIP tent, and I used to be like, ‘Paul Rudd, this sounds kinda bizarre, however there’s a track on my album. The track’s known as ‘Paul Rudd.’ I hope this isn’t bizarre.’”
They continued, “And he was like, so good about it, and he gave me his e mail. He was like, ‘Ship it to me. I’d love to listen to your album.’ So I despatched him my album.”
“Can’t imagine you trusted me along with your e mail,” Claud added as a aspect observe to Rudd.
“I defined, ‘I known as this track ‘Paul Rudd’ as a result of it’s me attempting to check myself as this cool and assured and charismatic, lovable character that you simply play, and that you simply simply are in actual life, that I’m typically not.’ And he responded he beloved the album.”
Claud took an opportunity and invited Rudd to the set for an upcoming music video.
“I used to be like, ‘We’re filming a music video for the track ‘A Good Factor.’ For those who occur to be free on at the present time, would you ever take into account stopping by?’ And he got here for the entire total day. He stayed for like 5 hours,” they stated.
“It was the most effective day of my life,” added Claud.
Claud additionally shared a selfie with Rudd on Sunday, captioning the snapshot: “Me and Paul assembly at eras tour. Photograph creds @phoebebridgers … no sorry you aren’t going to listen to the tip of this.”
Watch Claud’s “A Good Factor” music video, starring Rudd as a unusual mailman who’s not superb at delivering mail, beneath.