Louis Theroux, the British documentarian of BBC fame, has become a most unlikely TikTok music star.
Theroux could not be reached for comment. But 26-year-olds Duke and Jones, whose real names are Luke Conibear and Isaac McKelvey, told The Times that the documentarian is a “national treasure in the U.K.”
“We didn’t watch [‘Weird Weekends’] when it came out because we were about three years old,” said the DJs via email, “but the series went on Netflix for a while when we were in high school and it became quite the phenomenon in our friend group.” The “Jiggle Jiggle” remix has not just raised the pair’s profile on TikTok — it secured them a record deal with the Sony Music UK imprint Robots + Humans.
As kids, Duke and Jones shared an affinity for playing FIFA, snacking on grilled cheeses and tinkering with beats on Logic. Once they mastered Logic’s built-in pitch correction plugin, they made a name for themselves through a TikTok series called “adding autotune to random videos.” The U.K. analogs to American comedians the Gregory Brothers, originators of the “” gag, Duke and Jones would sift through old cartoons and TV interviews for clips to fiddle with.
“A lot of our early videos were of children or angry people,” said Duke and Jones, “because we found both of these groups spoke quite rhythmically, and hit a much wider range of notes in their speech than normal talking, so it gives the autotune more to work with.”
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