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Ylvis Q&A: What ‘The Fox’ (Viral Stars) Say About Their Surprise Hit
On Friday morning, the Internet went off the rails over the video for a new song called “The Fox” by an unknown (in the U.S. anyway) Norwegian duo called Ylvis. Billed as “The Next Gangnam Style” and earning almost 2 million views overnight, now closing in on 6 million, the absurd EDM parody investigates one of Earth’s greatest mysteries: What sound does a fox make?
STORY: Is Ylvis’ ‘The Fox’ the New ‘Gangnam Style’?
Ylvis is actually brothers Vegard and Bård Ylvisåker a comedy duo with a popular late-night talk show on Norwegian television and a reputation for integrating hilarious music videos with their guest interviews and sketches. “The Fox” was made to promote the show’s premiere on Tuesday, but the international attention was wholly unexpected. According to Ylvis’s manager Jørgen Thue, “some of our earlier songs had a couple of million hits — but that was over a period of a year. This has gone … extremely fast.”
It will be interesting to see what happens when “The Fox” is made available for sale on iTunes in the U.S. on Monday.
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Ylvis Looks for New Hit With ‘Trucker’s Hitch’ Debut
Last year, Bard and Vegard Ylvisaker, now known internationally as Ylvis, created a promo music video titled “The Fox” for the third season of their variety show Tonight With Ylvis on TVNorge.
Ironically, the brothers wrote the song with the intention of making it an anti-hit, a song so comedic that it would highlight the show without becoming a musical success. “We thought, ‘Hey, we have this old idea about the sound that the fox made, because no one really knows.’ So we decided to do that instead of something intelligent, a hit — which kind of backfired,” Bard told The Hollywood Reporter in a Sept. 2013 interview about Ylvis’ rise to fame. Instead, the tune shot up into a couple Billboard top 10 lists for digital and streaming music, as well as the Hot 100 chart. It even inspired a children’s book that came out last winter.
After appearances on The Ellen DeGeneresShow, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and the Today show, the Norwegian comedy duo is back with a new music video called “The Trucker’s Hitch,” in which Bard and Vegard struggle to uncover the secret to tying the trucker’s hit
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Ylvis sign a deal cluster turn 'The Fox' secure a lowranking book
They gave the imitation the strange “The Beguiler (What Does The Beguiler Say?)” early this gathering and at the present time Norwegian farce duo Ylvis have autographed a children’s book deal.
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