What DOES the Fox Say though, for real?

Are all those sounds what this Ylvis gentlemen is guessing the Fox MIGHT say? Or is he declaring the Fox does in fact say all of them? Have there been any peer reviewed studies on these claims?

I’m just a guy trying to find out what foxes say through music and interpretive dance in this crazy mixed up world :/

UPDATE: In search of answers, I finally saw the video of this Fox thing that has been coming up in my iTunes Radio playlists and watched it start to finish and I have to say I found it… dumb.

Not dumb-cool. just kinda lame I thought. Its not quirky cogent fun like Gangam Style or funny like a parody or satire. it’s just kindov hipster “look at me being different” nonsense without an exit plan. There’s a place for that kind of thing and I approve of works of art in that style, but having listened to the song and seen images and short clips of this first, watching the full length was a touch disappointing only because it raised constant issues of scenes I would have shot differently. there are lots of good elements to it but not enough to make it good overall and the execution I felt was poor.

I feel bad saying that because I like the concept, the tone, the visuals and the moxy of the guys doing it in general. But I must be honest in my review… I wasn’t a fox fan 🙁

Take a peep if you haven’t seen it and tell me I’m wrong. I want to be converted. I hate being a Debbie Downer, especially on creative uses of music and media. Change my mind…

The Jimmy Fallon appearance was even more confusing to me. I couldn’t stop trying to figure out how they filmed it instead of just enjoy it. It’s clearly edited to accommodate the costume change, but how did that work for the studio audience? Did they just pause and then come back? Did they perform it twice and then edit the two together for the late night audience? I want to love this so bad but I just can’t get there. It all just didn’t work for me even though I did like this performance much much better than the original music video. The longer takes makes it more acceptable that theres less going on and makes what is happening (like the horse entrance and the grandfather reading the book) a lot funnier. Still though… ug