Song #12: The Gregory Brothers feat. Antoine Dodson - "Bed Intruder Song" (2010)
"Bed Intruder Song" - Single
"You don't have to come and confess; we lookin' for you, we gon' find you, we gon' find you!"
I have yet to really declare this publicly, or express such an interest in this subsector of music, but, since freshman year and my entire sophomore year, I have been something close to obsessed with music that was made out of something that's original form wasn't music. With the rise of the internet, we've seen creativity, activism, and personal thoughts flourish incalculably, and we've seen music and remixes being made from news broadcasts, press conferences, and interviews, or stuff that wasn't musical in its original form.
There are two driving forces behind this kind of music-making, and they are The Gregory Brothers (with their line of "Songifying" originally non-musical things and their immensely successful series online "Auto-Tune the News") and DJ Steve Porter, ESPN's main-DJ, who compiles remixes and songs out of sports interviews, press conferences, and even does musical renditions featuring highlights of sports seasons for the NBA, NFL, and NHL.
The Gregory Brothers' "Bed Intruder Song" is one of two songs in the category of "remixes" that shows up on my "One-Hundred Songs of Steve Pulaski" blog series. Ever since I heard this song my freshman year, I had to play it on repeat about a dozen more times; I loved the unique qualities of it and the fact one could take something that didn't have a trace of musicality in it and make it so.
The "Bed Intruder Song" was made from a news report that took place in Alabama, about the attempted rape of a young woman named Kelly Dodson. While Kelly was the victim, the most prominent voice in the news report became Antoine Dodson, her brother, who gave an animated and quietly funny interview while expressing anger over his sister's attempted rape. The Gregory Brothers, a popular group known for taking news broadcasts and turning them into music on Youtube, saw the video, and soon after, released a short version of the song before putting up a full-length version on iTunes.
What amazes me each and every time I listen to "Bed Intruder Song" is how it plays like a real song, with specific verses, choruses, and structural soundness rather than acting as a jumbled remix. Not to mention, when one considers all the effort put into pitch, tone, and creating an instrumental to make the remix sound just right, the amount of time and effort put into the song could practically match a real, studio-produced song. "Bed Intruder Song," while an amazing work of artistic creativity, is still not my favorite one of these remix videos I have yet to see. Stay tuned...
Give "Bed Intruder Song" (the full version) a listen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKsVSBhSwJg
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