Japanese Band’s Music Video Shoot Goes Hilariously Wrong After Runaway Drum Floats Out To Sea
They had envisioned an epic music video in the sea. Instead, the rapidly rising tide sent one of their drums floating away and straight into meme history.
A Japanese band set out to film what they hoped would be the perfect music video at sea.
Instead, the sea had other plans.
Drummer Kiriyama Jotaro (@kiriyama_drums) shared on X photos from a seaside music video shoot, showing his drum kit set up in shallow water.
The first photo looks exactly how he imagined it — Kiriyama playing the drums while surrounded by the ocean, giving off serious rockstar vibes.
Then things literally drifted away.
As the tide rose much faster than expected, the crew didn't even have enough time to pack up all the equipment before one of the drums — a floor tom — floated off into the sea.
A second photo shows the runaway drum bobbing alone in the misty water, looking like it had embarked on its own solo journey.
He wrote: "For the first time in my life, I played drums in the sea... and then the tide came in way faster than expected, and my floor tom got swept away."
The post quickly went viral in Japan, with many netizens amused by the unexpected turn of events.
There had been warning signs, though. Kiriyama later shared a clip showing the floor tom wobbling unsteadily in the water before it finally drifted away, joking that the drum had "developed a sense of self."
One commenter wrote: "That's so rock and roll, I laughed so hard. The floor tom looks like a barrel drifting away."
Another said the whole incident deserved "full marks for artistic merit,” while someone else pointed out that rock band GLAY once filmed in the sea too — except they had the foresight to build a platform underneath their instruments.
Kiriyama took the mishap in stride.
He joked that while he was grateful for the attention, "I wanted the first time I went viral to be because of my drumming."
As for the runaway drum, netizens quickly turned it into memes, with some editing the lonely floating drum into a movie poster.
Kiriyama later shared the completed music video on YouTube. So at least the shoot was worth sacrificing his equipment for.
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