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JINGLE ALL THE WAY — Grant Woolard is either a mad genius or just plain mad. Either way he makes entertaining YouTube videos.
His genius lies in his ability to take several different tunes, not only mashing them into one, but doing it seamlessly and in a clever and entertaining way.
In his most recent video, Woolard takes 25 prevalent commercial jingles and plays them on a synthesizer in one huge catchy mashup. Beyond the pure cleverness in writing all the jingles together, Woolard takes it one step further, playing each jingle with an object related to the jingle or with a stick with the company’s logo attached.
He plays the Meow Mix jingle with a can of cat food, McDonald's with a fry box, Huggies with a diaper and Oscar Mayer with a hot dog. It's well worth 2.5 minutes of your time.
Woolard told This Blog Rules in 2012 that he began writing songs when he was “supposed to be studying biology” in 2007, but started making videos regularly until 2011. Each video takes about two to four weeks to make, as he is a one-man-band.
His jingle video is his most popular video to date by far, but other videos worth watching include “Playing Songs with Objects,” where the objects somehow represent the song; “Beatles Love Mashup,” made with an homage to Beatles album covers as well as love songs; and “National Anthem Mashup,” a perfect amalgamation of six national anthems.
