格雷戈里兄弟 Auto-Tune the World of Online Comedy
Two years ago, if you wanted to see the fantastically funny work of 格雷戈里兄弟, you needed to look to YouTube. Nowadays, they’re just about everywhere you turn.
格雷戈里兄弟, you see, are the creators of the Auto-Tune the 新闻 series of web videos. 在自动调整新闻, the brothers take clips from cable and broadcast news programs and turn talking heads into unintentional singers. It’s a genius idea that caught on instantly with the online video-viewing public.
YouTube and its millions of viewers have the power to turn nobodies into stars overnight. 没过多久, the Gregories (real-life brothers Evan, 安德鲁, 和迈克尔, along with Evan’s wife Sarah Fullen Gregory) were one of the hottest acts streaming. 然后, 2010年10月, they crossed over into mainstream popularity: A news report showing a young man named Antoine Dodson talking about an attempted rapist in his neighborhood inspired their song “Bed Intruder Song,” which became a hit on iTunes. The Gregories transitioned from an online sensation to a young comedy team to watch out for.
That’s why you can catch the brothers in a lot more places than just YouTube right now. They’ve been spotted on popular video podcasts, at the first annual Comedy Awards, 西南偏南音乐节, the YouTube-sponsored DigiTour, 甚至奥斯卡奖. Yes, in less than 2 years this foursome went from YouTube to the Oscars. 他们还没有完成.
“We weren’t professional at age three, there’s no Wolfgang Amadeus Gregory in the family, but we’ve all been musicians for a long time,埃文说. While the foursome seems to have broken out overnight, they’ve been working in music for years. Evan 和迈克尔 both have degrees in music, 安德鲁 has several albums out as a solo singer/songwriter (under the name 安德鲁 Rose Gregory), and Sarah has sung in a few different bands. The foursome even released a pre-Auto-Tune soul EP called Meet the Gregory Brothers in May 2009.
They always had an interest in humor, 虽然, and that’s what led Michael, an audio engineer by profession, to experiment with using Auto-Tune for more than its commercially intended use. While the first Auto-Tune the 新闻 videos show Michael and the others learning the craft, before long they were turning out complex videos that went viral immediately. When they happened to see Antoine Dodson in a news report, they showed the world that they could create catchy stand-alone songs, 也.
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