If you've visited YouTube during the last year you're probably one of the hundreds of millions that saw the Ylvis' super-hit "The Fox". With their fresh music-show, the Ylvis-brothers capture the essence of popular culture in a successive way. With parodies of everything from R&B to hip-hop through reggaeton, all extraordinarily well produced and played, the Ylvis-brothers surely must be some of the most skilled satirists today.
So good are they, in fact, that it becomes hard to separate the songs and videos from contemporary pop-music that ever threatens to tilt over into self-parody.
With their unique mix of skillful musicians, well choreographed animals and fantastic stage-presence, Ylvis is spot on for the entire family. Where whimsical foxes captivate the young ones, the texts and references are more than enough to keep mom and dad entertained - and to get the teenagers squealing with excitement.
About the world premiere in [Oslo, editors notice] Spektrum late February VGs Stein Østbø wrote that "the mixture of [a] clumsy school-play, genius parody, ironic wit and rhytmich punch is rare, Norwegian stock. If there ever has been anything like it."
