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I believe that Auto-Tune the News (formerly a redirect) ought to be merged into Gregory Brothers because it's currently still a pet project of the group, not to mention the one they are most notable for on a national level. At present, I think it's best to keep all related material on the group's primary article, with the proviso that the material can be split back out if future events warrant that decision. — Notyourbroom ( talk) 03:31, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Weirdly enough, the track names aren't consistent between sources.
Amie Street:
iTunes:
1, 2, and 4 are different... — Notyourbroom ( talk) 21:29, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Update: Here's an email from Evan.
Hey Bill -
The most correct track listing would be what is listed on the back cover of the EP, which is
- Cry Cry Cry
- Butter on My Roll
- West Coast Time
- A Wonder
- Do You Think?
I am dismayed that we didn't catch that on Amie Street before, so I just emailed them to correct it. Right now, iTunes is slightly more correct but not 100% (esp the missing '?')...soon Amie Street should be 100%.
I changed the article accordingly. — Notyourbroom ( talk) 15:47, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
Update: I checked here, and based on that material, I think it's best to include the "The" at the beginning. In the iTunes store and on Amie Street, the group is known as "The Gregory Brothers", and all of their track metadata also follows that naming convention. So I'll look into getting the article moved. — Notyourbroom ( talk) 23:08, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
'Auto-Tune' the latest, greatest spoof
It's a decent-sized piece which would be good to seed the founding of a "critical reception" section for ATTN, such as "Pete Snyder, the CEO and president of New Media Strategies, says “Auto-Tune the News” offers a peek into the future of political satire." — Notyourbroom ( talk) 21:39, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
I didn't like having dates mixed for television vs. youtube, so I split the two on the episodes chart. I don't have information for air dates for other clips, though. — Notyourbroom ( talk) 15:44, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Add reference to 2011 Academy Award credits for "Unintentional Musical" clips?
Made auto-tuned versions of Deathly Hallows, Toy Story 3, The Social Network and Twilight clips. (See
http://tv.gawker.com/#!5771930/what-in-auto+tuned-hell-just-happened-at-the-oscars,
http://twitpic.com/44lk5q) —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
76.79.68.50 (
talk)
13:51, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Instead of listing guest artists separately, we could make "Guest artists" a column of the table. Then, for each episode, we could list the guest artist(s) in bullet points along with a brief description of their role in or contribution to that episode. — Notyourbroom ( talk) 21:18, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
Given that the article is about the Gregory Brothers and not just about Auto-Tune the News, perhaps it would make sense to restructure the article so that "Auto-Tune the News" would be a subheading of something like "Auto-Tuned videos", a heading which would naturally suggest an expansion in discussion of their other one-offs and series (like "Time Travel in Song"). Related point follows. — Notyourbroom ( talk) 21:36, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Considering that the Gregory Brothers have expanded their autotuned offerings in several different directions, I'm increasingly convinced that the "special" episodes listed in the ATTN episode list don't really belong there anymore. In other words, those two videos ("Obama Flashback" and "Secretary Chung and President Obama Auto-Tune Health Care") are thematically related to ATTN, but they're not intended to be taken as part of the ATTN series. Perhaps they should be moved to their own table or else removed entirely.— Notyourbroom ( talk) 21:36, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
I've never reverted so many edits in one sweep, so here's an explanation. (1) I know that the "other notable videos" section is just a placemarker for now, but I feel that it's needed to properly balance the structure of the article. The simple truth is that ATTN is not the only notable result of the Gregory Brothers' video-making efforts, and people have in the past tried to shoe-horn them into the normal ATTN section. (2) The song is officially titled "BED INTRUDER SONG!!!", not "Bed Intruder Song". Changing the section name from one to the other is simply incorrect. Also, the use of italics is inappropriate for song titles; albums, not songs, are italicized. (3) Changing "wife" to "spouse" is unnecessary. Why use the gender-neutral word "spouse" when discussing specific individuals? (4) View count cannot be changed individually because they all must preserve the same date-of-access as established in the column head. Mixing and matching and updating individual cells whenever the fancy strikes someone quickly violates WP:VERIFY by scrambling old data with fresh data. — Bill Price ( nyb) 20:15, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
There are currently three placeholders for "other notable videos". I'm not feeling inspired to fill them out, but logically, it would make sense to have those sections. If consensus holds that we delete the placeholders and worry about it weeks or months in the future, I'd be fine with that, but I was hoping to prompt other editors to get involved in writing some prose. About 70–80% of the article is my own prose, but I'm trying not to "own" it... There just aren't many substantial third-party contributions. — Bill Price ( nyb) 20:10, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
So, where did that name come from? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.245.48.206 ( talk) 07:06, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
One of the most common types of errors I'm seeing in this and related articles is the tendency for IP editors to swing by and change view counts in a clearly mistaken way. The most recent example in this article is this edit. I've gotten into the habit of putting big WARNING comments in-line next to "set in stone" numbers like that one, but it feels really garish and authoritarian for me to do so. Another type of error is for someone to update just one view count in the episode listing table without changing the "date accessed" date and updating all other view counts as well- an error which causes the mixing of new and old data and breaks the article's verifiability. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to mitigate issues like these in high-traffic articles that attract a lot of flawed edits? Should we just remove most of the mentions of view counts? — Bill Price ( nyb) 15:38, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
I removed specific view count information from the lists of videos. — Bill Price ( nyb) 21:39, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
I was the initial major contributor to this article and have been guiding the development of it ever since, but I have not been able to spend much time on Wikipedia lately. I noticed that many of the recent edits done in my absence were flawed, either in form or content, and ought to have been reverted or fixed. Wingdude88 handled several of the problematic edits, but many others were left unchallenged. Would anyone watching this article be willing to step up and scrutinize edits more carefully? I can no longer give this task the time or energy it needs. Cheers. — Bill Price ( nyb) 21:50, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
I am proposing that we split out a proper Auto-Tune the News article. Back in 2009, I merged Auto-Tune the News into The Gregory Brothers with this rationale: "I believe that Auto-Tune the News (formerly a redirect) ought to be merged into Gregory Brothers because it's currently still a pet project of the group, not to mention the one they are most notable for on a national level. At present, I think it's best to keep all related material on the group's primary article, with the proviso that the material can be split back out if future events warrant that decision." I now think that the group has established a notability independent of the series—they have the separate "Songify This" series, made the Academy Awards video, etc. It's worth it to spin off a proper article focusing on Auto-Tune the News so that the main The Gregory Brothers article can be trimmed down and rebalanced to reflect all of their work. — Bill Price ( nyb) 22:25, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Neutral simply because although this series has garnered much popularity, they've been relatively inactive and phasing from memory. I am, however, leaning towards Support.
Red Card For You (
talk)
14:37, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Support because the section is so big it takes up a large proportion of the article and is notable enough to have its own page in its own right. --
andy4789 ★ ·
(talk?
contribs?)
19:08, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
Hola2amigos ( talk · contribs)—a user who has made no other edits on Wikipedia— added an in-line external link to a 3rd-party iPhone application. Because it's a 3rd-party application, there is no reason to give it any mention in the band's own article; it's even less notable than a fanpage would be. I reverted the first addition as a "good faith" edit, but Hola2amigos's persistence in re-adding it—especially given the fact that he or she is using a single-purpose account—is pushing me to the conclusion that there is a possible conflict of interest going on. I'd like to get 3rd-party input here. — Bill Price ( nyb) 03:32, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
In order to comply with WP:OUTING, I will not post the message, but I received an email from Hola2amigos ( talk · contribs) today asking me whether I am a member of the Gregory Brothers. The editor (perhaps inadvertently) identified themself by name as the seller of the iPhone app, which makes it explicitly clear that we are dealing with a conflict of interest. — Bill Price ( nyb) 01:25, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
No mention of Michael Gregory being on American Idol?? 177.32.49.132 ( talk) 00:09, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
I know it's a little silly to make a talkpage post, but still, this edit of mine was a mistake. I thought I was reverting the bot. I caught the mistake later when I noticed the bot reverting someone again, and fixed it properly this time. — Bill Price ( nyb) 00:42, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Cover Schmoyoho in relation with past Streamy awards in this article. (by the way :D - how come Gregory brothers didn't cover Ashli & Cindy videos yet - that stuff has 'Songify!' written all over it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzv5T_cakTw&list=UUEwRcuKL7RN4d66D7Cvbb9A and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q2mm-lVPII&list=UUEwRcuKL7RN4d66D7Cvbb9A ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.101.140.164 ( talk) 18:30, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
Evan Gregory, Andrew Gregory, Michael Gregory, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Atul Singh are credited as producers on the video "Weird Al Presents: 'America is Doomed, the Musical'", Weird Al Yankovic’s take on the weird debate.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000007370133/presidential-debate-weird-al.html