I'm having a hard time trying to think of how to concisely describe the Gregory Brothers and what I like about them, but I'm going to try!
The Gregory Brothers are a foursome, three real brothers and the wife of the oldest brother. They have a hugely popular YouTube channel that hosts about 50 videos, all of which have been Auto-tuned in some way. They started with "Auto-tune the News" segments, and then really hit it big using the Double Rainbow guy's spoken audio to make the Double Rainbow song. Next was the Bed Intruder song, which had 44 million hits and spawned hundreds of covers and parodies.
My favorite videos are from the "Auto-tune the News" series, since the group takes political news clips and turns them into complicated songs, using the spoken word to create melodies. That they also green-screen themselves into the segments and act completely irreverent, I just get a huge kick out of these guys. Only after really examining what they are doing do you realize the talent it must take to produce these videos and songs. I bought the audio clips of many of their "Auto-tune the News" segments, and they hold up in the audio format alone as catchy mash-ups. For a while their 'songs' were in regular rotation on my iPod.
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