Norway's Ylvis brings you..."The Fox!"

I just

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE

Oh and "Stonehenge"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GxkBDJajg4

Getting that second one to embed properly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GxkBDJajg4

You've all been remarkably quiet so far.

reminds me a bit of some of kollektivet's stuff, stylistically & humor-wise, not sure it really hits the mark for me though

It strikes me as undeniable that this is the song of the year.

The guy singing the Stonehenge song is like a Norwegian Paul Rudd imo.

I'm not going to call this the song of the summer or the year yet. I'll come back to it in a week and see if it's lost any magic.

Has Eurovision started early?

Presumably urban foxes not really an issue in Norway as surely everyone knows that foxes actually make a horrific noise like women screaming.

^^ my thoughts exactly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn-oemgzlEU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaEnaoydUUo

the music video is pretty funny. this is a funny song. look forward to hearing more.

Presumably urban foxes not really an issue in Norway as surely everyone knows that foxes actually make a horrific noise like women screaming.

that's kind of what they're doing in the song, no?

"If you meet a friendly horse, will you communicate by morse?"

i lost my shit at that part

Lost a point for not working "Norse" in there as well.

i am not cool with this song

let me get this clear, this is a comedy meme song à la gangnam style/harlem shake, right? so i'm not going to click on it and will do anything i can never to encounter the disgusting thing

the chorus is my new favorite thing

It will come for you, lex. In the night. Like a fox.

Possibly this very night...

trying to imagine lex going nuts for this song

the thought amuses me but it'll never happen

what the lex say

"It strikes me as undeniable that this is the song of the year."

otm

xp Gangnam Style was a song like any other song, by an artist with a long career, which just turned into a viral meme thing. This is a comedy show comedy song. They're not the same thing but you won't like it.

Personally I think norwegian comedy songwriting peaked 10+ years ago http://youtu.be/adHd6HpLNEg http://youtu.be/ktqqEpiiJyM

lex otm. I only made it to the first chorus.

lex listen to it! its really funny. wait, never mind, don't listen.

i love it. hilarious. stonehenge song is brilliant too and 5000000000X better than anything those snl dudes ever did.

I agree with that. Fuck a Lonely Island.

well yes, fuck lonely island as well

listened/watched this morning and thought it was pish but if I had kids aged say six or seven I'd be cool w/ them liking it

my mental age is roughly 5 or 6 so that tracks

I used to think bunnies did not make a sound, until my cat started killing them. Now I can confirm that bunnies do make a sound, a very sad sound. ;(

Debating showing my kids the fox video, because kid friendly or not, I'd just as soon them not hear it. Because no doubt it ... will ... click.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=369FGAb1iI8

^This one is great!

not feeling this

I'll stick with Turqouise Jeep

so far I only like the fox video but the others are p funny

The guy singing the Stonehenge song is like a Norwegian Paul Rudd jaymc imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O37FGcDoKZc

fox def the apex of w/e it is they're doing

why they're 100x better than lonely island is because they play it so straight, like andy samberg should just wear a trucker hat that says IM BEING FUNNY!!! in their videos

you could watch fox or stonehenge for quite a while before figuring out ylvis isn't just some clueless eurovision fail

I really like "I'm On a Boat", but yeah, these guys do seem funnier than most Lonely Island bits.

ylvis reminding me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI4PdwEHkCI

I really hope miley cyrus is watching the fox video and having a moment of clarity cuz she'd get more mileage out of satirizing madonna/britney/gwen than trying to be them

i didn't realize they were also the ones behind "work it," that one's pretty good. "jan egeland" is great too, love the daddy's boy jens comment

The way my FB feed was lighting up with this song the last few days, you'd think no one had ever heard Flight of the Conchords.

My 3 yr old loves this song fwiw.

Interview:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5687218/who-is-ylvis-the-fox-creators-on-going-viral-and-whats-next

Kinda key:

Where did the idea for the song come from?

I’m trying to remember. The way we work is we just sit and talk about everything and get ideas and take some notes. I guess we must have been talking about what kind of sound the fox makes. And then we had a chance to work with Stargate, a production company in New York City, they've produced for Beyonce and Rihanna--they’re Norweigans but based in the U.S.. We actually did a favor for them and we asked them if they could produce a song for us for the next season in exchange. And we assumed that they would turn down the offer because it wasn't a very good offer for them. But somehow they said yes.

My 3 yr old loves this song fwiw.

my kids loved it too. but probably not as much as maria.

i love that Stargate produced it. probably the best song they've made in years.

ummm

idk i think it's horrible and was honestly shocked that stargate were in any way involved

"Someone Like Me" (the second youtube glenn posted) is pretty incredible. i feel like it would've been one of ilx's favorite tracks last year if we'd known about it.

http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/M42IgA0XJXI/mqdefault.jpg

It's real funny and pleasant, but it's not one of those pop songs I can have on repeat. In regards to the Lonely Island bashing itt, I think Spring Break Anthem is genius.

"Someone Like Me" is brilliant

It's good fun, it earns its keep about 3/4 of the way through which is always impressive

29 in the US charts.

my coworker played this for his 4 year old daughter and 2 year old son - apparently it's turned into a game daughter now points to family members and says WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY and they have to make noises from the song or make up new noises. 2 year old bursts out laughing every time he hears it. <3

Same in my family. And we've all taken to elongating random words in conversation, mo-o-o-o-orse style.

I saw a fox tonight while I was driving and immediately started going "ringading ding dingading"

So it's now top ten for two weeks.

Number six this week

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5748210/lordes-royals-remains-atop-hot-100

And Norwegian papers are really excited -- endless articles about "who's covering Ylvis now?" Current headline on dagbladet.no (a major tabloid) "YLVIS-HYSTERI I USA"
I leave the translation to you all as an exercise in cross-cultural familiarization.

success has apparently not gone to their heads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7A9Y5dwPHI

Ylvis to Cover Def Leppard's _Hysteria_ for USA!

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The fox says HOOOOOOOOONNNNNNK!!!!!

the fox says gunter glieben glauten globen

the fox says pouuuuuuur some sugar on meeeeee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AXJSu15R8A

Just heard this song on the radio here in Mexico. I thought it was a Lonely Island song for a moment. Saw the video and I also thought it was Paul Rudd taking the piss until I learnt they were Norwegian.

I get it's supposed to be funny but I find this song super annoying. Reminds me of this other nonsensical hit 'Macaron Chacaron' (it was unfortunately big in latinamerica, don't know about the rest of the world).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l12Csc_lW0Q

Flagging your post for dissing "Macarron Chacarron". Sorry.

:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvUMV1N7eGM

basically required to like this, so good thing it's funny

I lolled.

I don't understand

This must be part of their 50 States Project.

They'll complete it quicker than the other guy.

This is part if their way to gain more success in the usa (?!)

What was it? The video has been removed.

new video called "Massachusetts"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFerWpHWAXY

jan egeland stuck in my brain like a motherfucker

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/e1b09c4b73bef8df8ecbae18471a5152/tumblr_muy4cuIeDH1qb3mk8o1_500.jpg

omg how dare they

Ring ding ding

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-what-does-the-fox-say-childrens-book-of-the-fox-20131112,0,1505333.story#axzz2kSQIGnsz

so I successfully avoided this song entirely until Saturday night, when I heard it on my local Top 40 terrestrial radio station in the car.

http://i.imgur.com/o3Exb.gif

I heard some neighbor kids singing this the other day

and not even their masterpiece

it's

I prefer this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X06NF29iJig

Don't know much about Svein Nyhus, but his wife Gro Dahle is a really good short story writer and poet (I haven't read her two novels)
They've done a bunch of children's books together that have seem to be very popular, or at least critically lauded.

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so this would be the "Go the Fuck to Sleep" model?

A song about dick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ8hcLXE6Fg