#The intruder songs tv#

Watching the wider Web jump on this meme, all but forgetting why Dodson was upset, seemed like a form of 'class tourism.' Folks with no exposure to the projects could dip their toes into YouTube and get a taste. People online seemed to be laughing at him and not with him (because he wasn't laughing), as Dodson fulfilled multiple stereotypes in one short news segment. A woman was sexually assaulted and her brother was rightfully upset. Evan Gregory said of the song's success, 'I think people are latching onto it is frankly quite similar to why they latch onto a classic ballad or pop song that tops the charts-because there's real emotion behind it that people identify with, even if, in this case, it was for unusual reasons.' Andrew Gregory said that 'There are plenty of comments that quote funny lines from the song but one of the comments I see most often on our videos is, 'I can't get this out of my head.'' īaratunde Thurston of The Onion told NPR:Īs the remix took off, I became increasingly uncomfortable with its separation from the underlying situation. The Dodson family was subsequently able to move out of the projects. Michael Gregory told Billboard that he did question the appropriateness of taking a bad news story and making it into a musical parody but then came to the conclusion that 'it's taking a terrible situation and making at least something positive out of it.' The band is splitting the money they make from sales 50% with the Dodson family. There's a way in which the aesthetics of black poverty-the way they talk and they speak and they look-sort of becomes this fodder for humor without any interest in the context of the conditions in which people actually live.' It has a really good hook, but it's problematic, too. Jason King, a songwriter and music journalist was quoted by NPR as saying 'It's catchy. It became the most-viewed YouTube video of 2010 (excluding major label music videos) despite having been created in the summer of that year. The music video for 'Bed Intruder Song' achieved immense viral success. The pitch contour of Antoine Dodson's voice was manipulated to make him appear to sing. Just two days later The Gregory Brothers released an Auto-Tuned song version of the news report.

#The intruder songs tv#

A video of the news report was first posted to the WAFF-48 TV station website on July 29, 2010, and then copied and uploaded to YouTube on the same day.

The song is based on a recording from a WAFF-48 news report about an attempted rape in Huntsville, Alabama. On March 26, 2011, the song won the Comedy Award for Best Viral Original. As of December 14, 2020, it has been viewed over 148,681,966 times and has received 1.1M likes since it was uploaded on July 30, 2010. The original music video for 'Bed Intruder Song' went viral, becoming YouTube's most popular video of 2010. The song peaked at number 89 in the Billboard Hot 100, the only song that week to enter the chart on iTunes downloads only. The song, created for Auto-Tune the News, features processed vocals of a WAFF-48 news interview with Antoine Dodson, who was talking to a reporter about a home invasion and attempted rape of his sister Kelly, mixed with a self-created backing track and, eventually, a video which incorporated clips from the news broadcast. ' Bed Intruder Song' is a song by The Gregory Brothers and Antoine Dodson, featuring Kelly Dodson. Single by Antoine Dodson and The Gregory Brothers featuring Kelly Dodson 2010 single by Antoine Dodson and The Gregory Brothers 'Bed Intruder Song'