Call Them, Maybe?

If you’ve been following pop music in the States for the past few months you may have noticed a certain infectious,  irresistible song, by previously unknown Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen, skyrocketing to the tops of the charts. Justin Bieber popularized it with a cover.  Then the Harvard baseball team covered it with a hand-held video of the team rhythmically hitting the top of a van on the way to a game.  Inexplicably this YouTube video got millions upon millions of views.  Then another college sports team.  Then another.  Suddenly it has become a full-on “Call Me Maybe” meme.

Lao Rugby was not about the be left out of this international phenomenon.   Sure maybe a lot of people can’t find Laos on a map, but the teams were determined to make their mark on the “Call Me Maybe” YouTube scene.

It took a few evenings of planning, and a long, sweaty, sun-burned Sunday of filming, but the product turned out amazing, if I say so myself (and I am only partially biased from being a co-director of the video)!  The Women’s National Team is preparing to go to the Philippines to compete very soon, and the Men’s National Team is on the way to Cambodia for a competition in a few weeks and they need all the help they can get!  Rugby is a relatively new sport herein Laos and they are always in need of more funding and support, so they’re hoping to drum up some sponsorship with this new viral video.  Or at the very least, get a shout out from Justin Bieber.