00:00Angel in flip-flops to the border, kisses like pop rocks.
00:05Charles Hayden Savage's hit summer anthem now has its own trippy music video.
00:10The song Angel in Flip-Flops, performed and co-written by Steve Martin,
00:13was featured in the latest episode of Only Murders in the Building.
00:17As a track, Martin's character Charles recorded in the 90s for his hit TV show Brazos.
00:22Walking all alone with my past in front of me, lonely as a man with nowhere to go.
00:27According to Charles' stepdaughter Lucy, the song was a big hit in Germany,
00:31but saw its upward motion on the charts thwarted by the fall of the Berlin Wall.
00:35It's since been, quote, sampled by like 50 rap stars.
00:44Only Murders in the Building co-creator and showrunner John Hoffman revealed that the idea for the song and animated video came up in the show's writer's room.
00:51Ahead of the season two premiere of the Hulu series, Martin shared why he thinks he and co-stars Selena Gomez and Martin Short make such a great on-screen trio.
01:00Well, you know, there's a magic element.
01:02You know, Marty and I have been, you know, working together for almost 40 years.
01:06And the magic element is Selena.
01:08She kind of throws us off base and, you know, we're actually talking to a person who's 40 years younger than we are.
01:15And it's kind of, you don't quite know what she's going to do as a character or as a person.
01:20Watching her deliver these lines in such an offbeat way throws you off.
01:23You have to kind of reset yourself.
01:25To me, that's the charm.
01:26That's what chemistry is, is not knowing what the other person's going to do.
01:31For more on this story, head to THR.com.
01:33For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.
01:35For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.
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