Antoine Dodson, the main focus of the original viral clip.

I guess this is the next step in music’s… evolution?

The Gregory Brothers — the guys who came up with the idea of “Auto-Tune The News” — have a bona fide minor chart hit on their hands. Their remix of the “Bed Intruder” news video is currently No. 89 on the Billboard Hot 100, between two country songs — Craig Morgan’s “This Ain’t Nothin’” and Brad Paisley’s “Water”.

Actually, according to Billboard, the song is referred to as “Bed Intruder Song” by Antoine Dodson & The Gregory Brothers featuring Kelly Dodson.

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The premise: The video below is apparently a parody of a pop songs from the 1960s or 1970s with lyrics made up of gibberish made to sound like American English.

The reality: This is the most bizarre video I’ve seen in a while.

Thanks for Videogum, specifically commenter “lilbobbytables”, for the link.

At the recent Second Annual Dog Wash and Tiki Towel-Off in Jupiter, Eric Ness entertains with his excellent work on steel drum:

It seems the Internet is alive with chatter about Michael Jackson’s kids, mostly 8-year-old Blanket, goofing around in recent videos on YouTube.

To see what the fuss is all about, check out this one:

And here’s a short one featuring Paris:

And we don’t want to leave out Baby Blanket:

Miley Cyrus has pretty much decided that the whole Hannah Montana thing is over and done with, it appears.

In her new video for “Can’t Be Tamed”, Cyrus, still only 17, looks seriously grown-up, with her fashion choice ranging almost into the S&M area.

Link courtesy E! Online (via the New York Daily News).

We’ve already seen Lin Yu Chun sing Whitney Houston almost note-perfect. But can he hang with Shatner?

Chun, who became a viral video smash with his cover of “I Will Always Love You”, was brought over from his home in Taiwan to appear on TBS’ Lopez Tonight.

His challenge? A duet with one of the world’s most unique song stylists, Mr. William Shatner.

Chun handles “Total Eclipse of the Heart” spectacularly here, even as Shatner “talk-sings” his way through his parts — as he always does. Because that is the Shatner way.

(By the way, Chun can dance too! Thanks for the link, Commenter Bill.)

Link courtesy AOL Television.

I don’t know what’s more surprising to me, that Hanson’s “MMMBop” came out in 1997 — that’s 13 years ago!! — or that the band is not only still around, but is making some good music.

Clearly, the band’s sound has grown — not surprising, as Taylor Hanson, the band’s lead singer/keyboardist, worked with rock luminaries James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins, Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick in a band called Tinted Windows. So maybe some of their collective skill rubbed off on Taylor — not that he really needed it. He and his brothers can write a catchy song.

Anyway, this is their most recent video, called “Thinking ‘Bout Somethin’”, from their upcoming album Shout It Out. It’s still got that catchy pop to it, but adds old-school soul — and not surprisingly, the video does too, paying homage to the film The Blues Brothers and its scene with Ray Charles (and look who’s playing tambourine… Weird Al!):

Thinking ‘Bout Somethin’

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Thanks to MTV’s Buzzworthy blog for the link.

And they say there’s no good music videos anymore. Daily Motion is featuring this, a video made by filmmaker Simon Ratigan for the song “All My Life” by Jont.

We’ll let Jont explain how this was made:

Here is the incredible new music video made by his friend, the director Simon Ratigan for the song “All My Life”, from his new album “Set It Free” (Released on my label Unlit Records and available now from www.jontnet.com). It is made from 100,000 photos taken of people Simon met wandering through the desert and in the Los Angeles area and then rendered together to make a moving image. The use of a stills camera means it was incredibly painstaking to make but the visual result is quite extraordinary. Hope you like it.

"All My Life" by Jont
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The way Ratigan filmed this, it seems to give it an almost 3D quality.

Anyway, if you liked the song, check out Jont’s site.

You may have heard about Glee‘s Vogue shot-for-shot remake, featuring Jane Lynch’s Sue Sylvester character with teased out platinum blonde hair and pinstriped suit. If you haven’t, or you haven’t seen it, or you have and want to again, no sweat, it’s down below.

But a review, really quickly: It’s an incredible piece of work — and incredibly straight-forward, with very few exceptions. There’s miniscule pieces of deviation from David Fincher’s original Madonna video. Most still remains.

And Jane Lynch pulls off the song nicely. When Glee first hit the air, and Lynch wasn’t involved very often in musical numbers, the worry was she couldn’t sing, or dance. It’s nice to finally debunk that rumor. Clearly, she can handle both.

Video link courtesy Movieline. Further help by Deadline Hollywood.

Has the band with the treadmills topped itself?

OK Go, who made one of the all-time viral videos with the highly choreographed treadmill extravaganza “Here It Goes Again”, has built almost its entire career out of DIY music video making.

But its latest for the song “This Too Shall Pass” may challenge its best-known work.

The video’s creators — which include the members of OK Go — put together a Rube Goldberg-esque contraption that looks like it took up the entire span of a warehouse, and filmed various band members singing the song as each bit of the “machine” worked its way into place.

Billboard reports the whole contraption took four months to build, and the video is a testament to the incredible timing the contraption had to have to match up with the song.

Thanks for the link, What Would Tyler Durden Do?!