I'm pretty sure you've all heard this song by now! If you haven't then stop reading this and go on YouTube and listen to it right now!

If you're a fun of a jumpy, sing-along, hypnotic kinds of songs then "What Does the Fox Say?" by Ylvis is just the song for you. The group is two brothers from Norway who made a really silly song and video. It's just a collection of animal sounds phonetically but what has them stumped is what the fox says.

By any other means, this song shouldn't work. As mentioned, it's a bunch of sounds as they sing a ballad to the elusive fox. The extras in the music video are dressed up as the different animals mentioned and there are all kinds of proposed, outrageous sounds that the fox could make. With those sounds are different dance moves while the brothers sing, they're dressed as fox themselves. I know! It's this weird, trippy, thing and yet it kind of works.



On the first listen, you find yourself asking what the hell you're listening to. It sounds like someone singing while having a seizure with the stereo skipping. But then you find yourself listening a second time because you want to know what they're saying. And pretty soon, you find yourself singing along with it, dancing along, and making those crazy sounds as well!

Watching the video is a whole other story. On the first glance, you're asking yourself what the hell you're watching. It's two guys singing very seriously about a fox and it brings to mind moody, I'm-so-cool-without-trying teen icons from the 80s. But then it morphs to this giant dance party in the woods where everyone is dressed up and partying.



And you just don't care. After about the 16th time watching the video, I didn't give a rat's behind that these guys were singing to a fox or that everyone was dressed up as animals. All I knew was that I desperately wanted to be at that party. I'm not sure which animal I would be, but I'd like to think my spirit animal is a jaguar.

But back to the video, it's one of those electric, happy songs that knows it's being silly but really doesn't care either way. That's what makes the song kind of genius. Because really, what does the fox say? Remember those little children's wheels where you spin the arrow and different animals have different sounds? Never had a fox on it did it??



No, it didn't! So while this song pretends to be another sleeper hit/fad that has everyone loving it and then forgetting about it, you find yourself thinking about it. There are sounds you know intuitively and there are sounds you learn along the way. But no one really knows what sound the fox makes. So it's a thinking song as well as a song you annoy your housemates with.

This video is weird, it's cool, it's refreshing, it's a non-guilty pleasure that you can have and no one can say anything to you. Seriously, go watch this video. I'll provide it below so there's no excuses! And then when you're done, you can watch the SNL spoof of it which is equally as good/trippy/dumb as the original.



Enjoy!!



And here's the SNL parody: