The Midnight Beast
The Midnight Beast, sometimes abbreviated as TMB, is a British comedy/parody music group from London. They are most famous for their YouTube cover-parody of the 2009 single "TiK ToK" by American pop artist Ke$ha. The group currently has three members: Stefan Abingdon, Dru Wakely and Ashley Horne.
Reception
The Midnight Beast had 424,324 subscribers and 71,761,413 views combined on their YouTube channel (as of March 2015), as well as 405,650 Facebook fans as of March 2014. The group's songs often appear on iTunes music charts with their recent album reaching Number Two in the iTunes Music charts, and their accompanying music videos routinely reaching over 1 million views on YouTube. On Christmas Day 2009, the "TiK ToK" parody was featured on the front page of MTV.com. The group has also made videos in collaboration with BBC Comedy and MTV Rocks.
The group has garnered praise from many of the artists that they have parodied. Both Ke$ha and Jay Sean have tweeted positive reactions to the parody of their respective songs, TiK ToK and Down, with Ke$ha stating "holy. shit. this is better than my version", and Jay Sean posting "Hahha brilliant. Someone should mix this with 'pants on the ground.'"
Podcasts:
Stefan Abingdon
ALBUMS
- 4.3.2.1. released: 2010
4.3.2.1.
Released 2010- Keep Moving (feat. Paloma Faith)
- No Bullshit
- When I'm Alone
- "Ya Get Me"
- On This Ting
- A Different Light
- "Bend Over"
- Better Days (revox) (feat. Micachu, Wiley & Incredubwoy)
- I Wanna Party
- Don't Look Back
- Go Home
- Do You Fancy Me? (Bluff)
- No Significance (feat. Henriette Bond)
- Drunk Girls
- Paradox (feat. Myles Sanko)
- Dancefloor
- This Year (feat. Griminal)
- Forever
- She's a Gangsta (feat. Zalon)
- "You Took My Shopping"
- Typical Actor
- Pretty Young Things
- My Size Kid
- "Strangely Sexy Though"
