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}} "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)" is an electronic dance novelty song and viral video by Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis. The top trending video of 2013 on YouTube, "The Fox" was posted on the video-sharing website on 3 September 2013, and has received over 560 million views as of November 2015. "The Fox" peaked at the top of the Norwegian Singles Chart and was hugely successful in the United States, where it peaked at number six on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for three consecutive weeks, and was before the US release of "Am I Wrong" by Nico & Vinz, the highest-ranked song by a Norwegian artist on the chart since a-ha's number-one song "Take on Me" in 1985. Originally an "anti-hit" produced as a part of the duo's new season of Norwegian television talk show ''I kveld med YLVIS'' (''Tonight with Ylvis'') and uploaded on YouTube as a teaser, "The Fox", "created to fail", has ironically and accidentally gone viral, becoming Ylvis' "breakout" song and drawing international attention to the group. There are currently no plans to release an album including the song or any sequel to it.〔〔 == Production == The brothers Vegard and Bård Ylvisåker, members of the Norwegian comedy group Ylvis, produced the song and music video "The Fox" to promote their upcoming third season of ''I kveld med Ylvis'' on TVNorge. In an interview with Norwegian newspaper ''Aftenposten'', the brothers stated that the idea of a song about a fox was originally conceived in 2012, but then shelved. Half a year later, in 2013, Bård and lyricist Christian Løchstøer began to play with the idea once again. Vegard was initially skeptical about making a song about a fox, but soon relented. In an interview on the Norwegian-Swedish talk show ''Skavlan'', the brothers mentioned that given the opportunity to collaborate with Stargate, they originally wanted to make a dance song about men who cannot dance or dread dancing and named it "The Dancing Stick", but felt that the idea was "too clever," and that they would appear to be trying to make a hit. The idea was therefore scrapped and "The Fox" got produced instead. Bård described the writing process for "The Fox" in an interview with ''Billboard'' in the United States: "The way we work is we just sit around and talk about things and get ideas and take some notes. I guess we must have been talking about what sound a fox makes. And then we had a chance to work with Stargate, a Norwegian production company based in New York City... We actually did a favor for them and we asked them if they could produce a song for the new season in exchange". Tor Erik Hermansen of Stargate recalled in an interview with ''Spin'' that the favor was actually a mockumentary done by the Ylvisåker brothers to celebrate Mikkel Storleer Eriksen's 40th birthday, in which they pretended to be the Stargate duo. Australian producer M4SONIC was also involved in the production.〔 Bård, being interviewed by ''Entertainment Weekly'', talked about their intention of making "The Fox": M4SONIC described producing "The Fox": 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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