Much of Ylvis’s comic appeal lies in the way they treat everyday, even banal, themes with deadpan gravity. They wrote a song about animal noises, asking “What does the fox say?” and parodying European electronic pop, because they “wanted to make a very good production about something very stupid,” Vegard explains. It is an irresistible earworm, topping the charts in Norway and reaching number six on the Billboard chart in America. The video has been watched nearly 1bn times online.
Ylvis的喜劇魅力很大程度上在于他們對待日常生活，甚至是平淡嚴肅的主題的方式。他們寫了一首關于動物叫聲的歌，唱道“狐貍叫什么？”并模仿了歐洲電子流行樂，因為他們“想要創作一個主題很蠢，但很好的作品，”維加德解釋說。這首歌就是讓人無法抗拒的耳蟲，在挪威音樂排行榜上高居榜首，在美國告示牌排行榜上排名第六。這段視頻在網上被觀看了近10億次。
“Jan Egeland”, a rock track with thundering electric guitars and falsetto vocals, pays tribute to a Norwegian diplomat involved in the Oslo accords. The country-inflected “Massachusetts” is a tongue-incheek ode to America’s 15th-most-populous state (it angered some Bay Staters by suggesting that they were homophobic). “Russian Government Process”, in the style of a traditional folk song, pokes fun at that country’s opaque bureaucracy—as the music increases in tempo, the list of instructions becomes harder to understand.
“Jan Egeland”是一首用電吉他和假聲演唱的搖滾樂，這首歌是向一位參與奧斯陸協議的挪威外交官致敬。“Massachusetts”是對美國的人口第十五大洲的頌歌（這首歌激怒了一些海灣州的人，因為認為他們是同性戀恐懼癥）。“Russian Government Process”這首歌的風格是傳統民歌，它取笑了俄羅斯不透明的官僚機構，隨著音樂節奏加快，伴奏變得越來越難以理解。
Bard says the pair have “an appetite for all sorts of genres”. They have also written lampoons of sultry R’n’B (“The Cabin”), misogynistic hip-hop (“Work It”) and dubstep (“Someone Like Me”). Besides their sheer range, what sets Ylvis apart from other comedy groups is the catchiness of the melodies and the brothers’ versatile and prodigious talents. You will try—and fail—to hit their high notes in the shower. In these dull, repetitive days, their work is a heartening reminder that even anodyne things can be a source of inspiration.
巴德表示，兩個人對“各種流派的音樂都有興趣”。他們還寫了諷刺的R’n’B（“The Cabin”），厭女的hip-hop (“Work It”)以及回響貝斯（“Someone Like Me”）。不同于其他喜劇團體，Ylvis的創作范圍廣泛、音樂旋律優美、兩兄弟多才多藝。你會在淋浴時試著去唱他們的高音，但是會失敗。在這些沉悶、千篇一律的日子里，他們的作品令人振奮，而且提醒人們，即使是乏味的東西也可以成為靈感的源泉。
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