WATCH: A Twink Named Brandon Hilton Has Created The Gay Equivalent Of Rebecca Black’s “Friday”
Electro-pop twink Brandon Hilton has released a video for his autotuned-to-death single, “Set Fire To The Night,” and holy hell is it god-awful. Maybe even Rebecca Black awful. Enjoy the schadenfreude.
According to the press release we received, Hilton’s “hit single ‘GLAMOUR ZOMBIE’ was also featured on the Aug. 22nd episode of Oxygen’s hit reality show The Bad Girls Club,” which is no small feat.
Brandon calls the track “a dancefloor killer.” It’s a killer, alright.
he IS an Electronic artist, so it does make sense that he uses vocal effects, it doesnt sound like autotune as much as it sounds like synthesizers and vocoders. I actually like it. I love Electronic music.
just followed him on Twitter and Facebook.
http://www.twitter.com/BrandonHilton
http://www.facebook.com/BrandonHiltonOfficial
for others who may not be haters as well, its sad reading these comments coming from a blog that supposedly supports love and acceptance in the community. I found the video to be quite creative coming from an unsigned artist who directs and creates all of their own art
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pretty sure Rebecca Black was WAY worse, atleast he’s creative, cute and has cool video’s. It seems he is trying to do something positive for our community with his music. after watching this one I stumbled onto another one called ‘ONE’ that is amazing. It really should be on the radio
check it out, its 10 times better and the message is powerful!
watch here: http://youtu.be/0Whu3N8o_nE?hd=1 (the video’s much different for this one too)
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I think this brand of “music” has come full circle and will explode on itself to make way for the next new thing. I mean when anyone and everyone was doing the teen pop routine from the late 90s to early 2ks it didn’t take long for people to get burned out.
Can’t wait till this crap is over.
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I love Artist, Brandon Hilton; he is the “Featured Guest” for my talk show this month. I have interviewed him and seen him perform live. Each song and music video gets better each time. And I absolutely love this music video-from the beginning reminding us to let go of our painful pasts and take control of our lives to the craziness he feels throughout; something we can all relate to at one time or another in our lives. I have been a fan of his from myspace days thru now and will continue to be and he has grown so much as an Artist and person. He is one of the sweetest people you will ever meet. And he has helped spread lots of love in this world, which we definitely need!
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all the haters can “set ON fire TONIGHT” cant believe there’s so many rude people in the gay community. Its kinda disgusting, no wonder we have no rights.
personally I love this song, and the video is pretty legit for someone who’s doing it on his own, dont listen to the hate Brandon Hilton, you are great!
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Does anyone else find comments on ‘haters’ incredibly annoying? It’s stupid to imply that if you express a negative view of something that you hate it. Go and run off to a fan site if you are too juvenile to read criticism.
Now Brandon Hilton is probably going to think that I’m ‘ignorant’, the same way he replies to people who dislike his music (if not, he’ll delete your comment/remove comments or the dislike option).
William Belli, I don’t see what point you’re trying to make. Every community has rude people, and the gay one is not recognised as having rudeness which is more prevalent than others. Pretty disturbing that you use this as a reason for inequality.
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The guy writing this ‘review’, a Mr. Evan Mulvihill, apparently graduated from Cornell University with a BA in English and Chemistry. Meanwhile, this fool’s greatest accomplishment in life is that he earns his income as a blogger for Queerty.com?? What a waste of that education dood. He creates no art, he just tears it down and collects a paycheck for it. I’m guessing he is just bitter because he doesn’t have enough talent to get a REAL writing position with a reputable company, despite the fact that his PARENTS gave him all that money to go to school. (Common, you KNOW he didn’t pay his own way.)
Some day, Evan might become wise enough to understand what it means to be a REAL artist. To create something from nothing. To bring yourself up by your own hard work and creative effort. To grow your craft over time. Until then, I have not doubt that he’ll continue to crap all over everyone else’s attempt. It gives him a delusional sense of POWER to destroy other people’s dreams. What a fool.
Brandon. Ignore him. Keep doing your thing. Your fans, myself included, are having a great time watching you grow.
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@Michael Canidot: Well Andrew Towle got degrees at schools too but came to NYC (thinking that would make him “cooler”, like all the transplants here) and became nothing but a bartender! He lucked out with starting a blog when the time was right. Today he’s one of the most vicious gay-ghetto non-thinking robots out there. So….degrees often mean nothing.
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Wow. Pure autotune. People that think this is good should be excited to know that they can go buy a vocoder… just SPEAK the words into a mic & have it sound the exact same. Sheer talent. BWAHAHAHA! And yeah, the slap is hilarious after subjecting myself to this. Cathartic.
And the commentator that said people disliking this (because it sucks) is the reason we have no rights… you make me a very sad panda. “Hey, talentless gay! Because I want equality, I fully support what you are horrible at!” HA!
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@Jasun Mark: The only ladies here are the fangirls like yourself who can’t handle this kid getting any negative criticism.
The song is awful, the video is worse. If you like auto tune and nonsensical videos that have no purpose or direction that’s your business.
Grow up and realize no one is obligated to like everything. Considering the majority of us all think it’s awful maybe it really is just awful.
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@Allen D.: and what are you doing to make a difference in this world…… I thought so
how are you following your dreams? and are you making music? didnt think so.. so take your jealous opinion of this kid (who I actually find quite talented and entertaining) and shove it.
this kid is doing something that NONE of you can do and if you did would NEVER get the attention that he does and is making something of himself and doing something with his life, and here you are trashing him from your mothers basement.. shame on you all!
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the author of this blog is obviously deaf.. Rebecca Black? as in Friday, Friday? that girl couldnt carry a tune in a bucket WITH autotune. atleast this kids music is interesting and his video is creative and clever, I like the message behind it. to have done this on his own without label backing is amazing!
after watching this I looked up some of his other tracks on youtube, he’s actually pretty good, and has several songs that dont have any auto-tune on them at all. like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBy7LS0ehTM which is an amazing song! he should shoot a video for this one too
I think if you all cast your judgments aside and give him a chance you’ll see he has much more to offer, this kid is IT he’s gonna blow up! I feel it
+ just noticed Interscope Records is following him on twitter… <- sign of whats to come? he's gonna be big!
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@Allen D.: And the commentator that said people disliking this (because it sucks) is the reason we have no rights… you make me a very sad panda. “Hey, talentless gay! Because I want equality, I fully support what you are horrible at!” HA!
I know. If we only watched shitty movies we’d have gay marriage by now. Shame on me for not liking Amateurish and Sanctimonious Gaysploitation Indie Film #367 or Tuneless and Generic Four-on-the-Floor Dance Track #4,912. I’m no better than Rick Santorum.@Allen D.: And the commentator that said people disliking this (because it sucks) is the reason we have no rights… you make me a very sad panda. “Hey, talentless gay! Because I want equality, I fully support what you are horrible at!” HA!
I know. If we only watched shitty movies we’d have gay marriage by now. Shame on me for not liking Amateurish and Sanctimonious Gaysploitation Indie Film #367 or Tuneless and Generic Four-on-the-Floor Dance Track #4,912. I’m no better than Rick Santorum.
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@INTERSCOPE REP:
“[h]e’s gonna blow up! I feel it”
finally, a sentiment on which we can all agree; yes, indeed, let us hope so, and soon.
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I’m pretty sure I saw his vagina in one scene.
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@GROW UP: Am I making music? As a matter of fact, I AM! Thanks for asking. You see, I’ve been playing the guitar for 19 years, bass and drums on top of that for the past 15. I actually pick up physical instruments and PLAY them, vs. pressing keys on a computer. I’ve also autotuned a song for a friend as a JOKE…
Which is what this song is.
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@Oh, ok.:
I’m hardly a fan girl. Just never really understood the mentality of the people who spend a bit too much time sitting alone at home behind their computers trash-talking the people who are actually doing something.
For something he did with no budget, this is pretty good. Comparing this to Rebecca Black is just weird. Rebecca didn’t write Friday, she didn’t produce the video and was just a 13 year-old girl who was having fun playing pop star… I always thought the glee with which people bullied her about it was like watching the Mean Girls pile on.
Turn on the radio and hear electronic music like this often uses the vocoder effects that he’s using here. This isn’t “auto tune” to correct his pitch, it’s an effect to make the voice sound like a robot. Listen to that “nightcall” song by Kavinski from the drive soundtrack that was the toast of the chill out room last year… Much the same, it uses the vocoder as an effect. Calling it auto tune just makes you look petty and clued-out.
If this isn’t your style… Fine. But you’re starting to sound like Cinderella’s step sisters, jealous that she’s made a dress nicer than yours.
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just to make sure i’m not missing anything: boyfriend slaps him in the face while watering houseplants. they then go driving in a car. he then wears a snake, poses in a lot of outfits with sunglasses, sits naked in a chair, and then goes to the mental health ward with fake fire in it. it is never fully explained why his boyfriend hits him (he’s looking at some porno pics right before) and that plot-line never gets resolved.
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@Jasun Mark: atleast someone here has a working brain! If there’s one thing I’ve learned since my music started gaining exposure, it is this: people will say ANYTHING to tear someone else down and make themselves feel better.
Its quite obvious that my heart is in what I do and like you said, I am doing this all on my own! that being said, I am quite pleased with my work thus far. although I can say that my next music video will top this one 150% and I’m working with a BADASS director on it!
to the few who actually had the balls to support me in this sea of comments from people in their parents basements, I thank you!
my new single ‘SO READY’ is out now! and it features NO AUTO TUNE.. NO EFFECTS.. ALL ME! so pretty much everyone above can EAT SHIT!
listen for FREE here: http://soundcloud.com/brandonh.....n-so-ready
Oh and whoever posted about my facebook was wrong, my Official Facebook link is: http://www.facebook.com/BrandonHilton
Thanks,
The REAL BH!
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@Benji: actually no I didnt, my comment above is my first comment on this site. I dont read articles like the one above where people sit behind a computer and trash others.. It disgusts me!
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@Allen D.: ACTUALLY there’s hardly any, assuming you dont make music, would explain your lack of knowledge about music production!
there’s a HUGE difference between “auto tune” and “vocoders” and “harmonizers” I could point you in the direction of several kids who make music and STILL sound like shit! If you cant sing, god himself could not make you sound good, let alone auto tune!
do a little research before you open your mouth and look ignorant! xo
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@Willam Belli: I love you! hope you win RPDR! see you soon! xx
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He must have ripped that outfit off from his gay uncle who was a club kid in the 1980s.