A couple weeks ago, my friend texted me and told me I needed to see a video on YouTube, and since I was studying at the time, I threw it aside. A few days later, she texted me again asking if I liked the video. I happened to be with my best friend in her room at the time, and since I forgot, I quickly loaded it up and watched it with my friend. From the moment the lyrics started, I knew it was going to be an interesting video starting by describing different sounds that animals make, such as "Cow goes moo, dog goes woof", etc. The best part about it was that the singers were totally serious and composed the whole time, and I had no idea if this was a joke video or not. The entire video takes a turn when all of the sudden, the lead singer has fox ears and whiskers, and is wearing a full orange fox outfit. The choruses are then filled with different hilarious sound possibilities of the fox. The song seems incredibly serious, which is what makes it so funny. The two lead singers (brothers) are stone cold emotional about not knowing the sounds that foxes make. It is absolutely ridiculous humor. In the end, they walk away from the forrest defeated that they will never know the sound a fox makes. The video is called "The Fox" and it is by Ylvis.
The video itself is hilarious enough to make me break out in a fit of uncontrollable laughter, but what made it even better was that my best friend was sitting right next to me laughing even harder than I was. We both amped each other up so much in our laughter, and by the end we were both literally on the floor, curled up, laughing non-stop.
I have now seen this video so many times, it is getting a little old, and I know all the words and choreography, but it never fails to make me laugh. To whoever reads this, I strongly suggest looking up some of their other videos (though a little dirty and obscene), they are perfect examples of mockery of American music videos. They take words that American singers use to mean suggestive things, and they explicitly say what they are talking about to make it funny. The group is called Ylvis and they are two European brothers. I strongly encourage anyone to look them up. They are absolutely hilarious.
Another thing that made this video so meaningful and hilarious to me was the fact that at the beginning of practice, my best friend (who is the coach of our Elite dance team now), turned on this song for our warm-up, and with a totally straight face (she didn't keep it the whole way through the warm up), she lead our stretch to this song. I was actually dying. It kept the joke alive. Now that the song is getting old, and we discovered it weeks ago, she still plays it every now and then to get a laugh out of me, and last night at practice, she played it when I lead the ab workout. We showed the team the video, so now the joke also includes a lot of my friends and the whole team is able to laugh along when she plays it.
To me, the reason this video is so hilarious is that I was able to share it right next to my best friend. We continue to share it because she plays it at practice, and it will get stuck in our heads often. I think I would have enjoyed the video had she not been a part of it, but I probably would have forgotten about it by now or been bored of all the hype it's been getting. However, since she was there with me and it was such a memorable moment watching it with her, I don't think it's possible to forget it.
So here is this magical video. If you haven't seen it yet, you NEED to watch it. It quite possibly could change your life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE
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