<P> During each chorus, the song offers several increasingly absurd possibilities for the fox's sound such as "gering - ding - ding - ding - dingeringeding!" and in the second chorus where Vegard sings "fraka - kaka - kaka - kaka - kow!" Among the dancers, an elderly man (Bernhard Ramstad) is shown reading the lyrics from a book to a boy sitting on his lap . The song then describes the fox and the singer's admiration for it, and asks whether it would communicate with a horse using morse code . In the end, the singers float in the air, continuing to wonder what sound the fox makes, while failing to notice a computer - animated fox behind them, which stands on its hind legs and scat sings (voiced by Vegard), answering their question . Bård finishes the song with a melancholy falsetto and the fox leaves without being seen . </P> <P> With the chord progression of C ♯ m--B--F ♯, the song is written in the key of C ♯ dorian, with lead vocal range spanning from C ♯ 3 to F ♯ 5 . </P> <P> Listeners noticed that the song has a similar structure to Radioactive by Imagine Dragons.In Norway, homeland of Ylvis, "The Fox" became the duo's first entry on the VG - lista and eventually topped the chart for four consecutive weeks from 20 September to 17 October 2013 . In the U.S., "The Fox" debuted on 12 September 2013 on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 29, and at number 3 on the Streaming Songs chart . It later reached the top spot on the Streaming Songs chart for the weeks ending 19 October and 2 November . The song in the following week has also broken into the Hot Digital Songs top 10 at number 8 with 108,000 downloads during the week and debuted on the On - Demand Songs chart, when it sat in the top 10 of Hot 100 for the third week . The song has sold 1,367,000 copies in the U.S. as of June 2014 . </P> <P> The music video's viral success and catchiness has also drawn comparison to that of PSY's "Gangnam Style". It took only 35 days to hit 100 million views, compared to 51 days by "Gangnam Style" to reach the mark . In the annual year - end lists of "Top 10 Everything" compiled by Time magazine, "The Fox" was ranked number two on the "Top 10 Viral Videos" of 2013 for being "one of the catchiest songs of the year", only after "Gentleman", PSY's follow - up to "Gangnam Style". </P>

Ylvis - the fox (what does the fox say )