Artist: Crazy Frog Genre(s):
Dance
Trance
Discography:
Last Christmas Super Crazy Sounds CDS Year: 2006
Tracks: 3
Crazy Hits Year: 2005
Tracks: 15
Axel F - Crazy Frog remix Year: 2005
Tracks: 7
Originally known as "the Annoying Thing," the helium-voiced, blue-gray, anatomically slump CGI lump Crazy Frog became a pop culture epidemic in Europe and especially the U.K., with ringtones, TV commercials, pop songs, and other forms of (over)exposure. Though Crazy Frog manic disorder began its momentum in 2004, the character's introduction took several years. In the late '90s, Swedish stripling Daniel Malmedahl began recording his impressions of internal combustion motors; after he performed on a television system show, the impressions were posted on the Internet and became a craze among file-sharers. Fellow Swede Erik Wernquist, a figurer animator, heard Malmedahl's noises in 2000 and was elysian by his impression of a moped motor to create the Annoying Thing, and posted the living on his internet site, where it also became a popular Net attractive force. Though Wernquist ab initio credited the Annoying Thing's voice as "Anonymous," Malmedahl eventually contacted him and Wernquist gave citation where it was due.
The Annoying Thing made its debut as a merchandising tool in 2001, when it appeared in Belgian ringtone commercials. By 2004, the reference -- rechristened Crazy Frog -- was commissioned as a sound and video recording ringtone for cellular phones and was attended by a massive ad push that included a inundation of TV commercials. Crazy Frog's popularity under the weather in the spring and summer of 2005, when the uncut single of the "Axel F" ringtone, which was created by members of the German production team Bass Bumpers and based on Harold Faltermeyer's instrumental report for
Beverly Hills Cop, topped the U.K. singles charts for several weeks. It was so pop that it unbroken Coldplay's comeback unmarried,
Stop number of Sound, from debuting at number one. Later that summer, the ringtone and full-length album
Softheaded Frog Presents Crazy Hits pronounced the Frog's reaching in the States. In 2006, the Crazy Frog phenomenon was static level-headed in Europe, with toys and gadgets available and a potency TV series in the industrial plant; that summer, the Frog dropped some other album, ably named
More Crazy Hits.
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