About
Pomplamoose is a musical duo consisting of members Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn, who gained much notoriety on YouTube for their unique style of music videos. The band’s name is derived from the French word pamplemousse (“grapefruit”).
History
The PomplamooseMusic YouTube[1] channel was launched on June 27th, 2008. On July 5th, the first music video titled “Hail Mary” was uploaded to the channel, featuring footage of Conte and Dawn playing different musical instruments (shown below, left). The video was subsequently featured on the front page of YouTube.[2] On July 22nd, the duo released a similar music video for their cover of the 1959 show tune "My Favorite Things (shown below, right). In the next seven years, the videos gained over 1.6 million and 3.8 million views respectively.
On September 17th, 2009, Pomplamoose released a music video for their cover of the 2008 pop song “Single Ladies” by Beyonce (shown below, left). In six years, the video received more than 10.4 million views and 23,800 comments. On March 15th, 2010, they uploaded a cover of the 2010 pop song “Telephone” by Lady Gaga, garnering upwards of nine million views and 14,800 comments in five years (shown below, right).
On May 10th, 2011, the duo released the music video for a cover of the theme song from the mobile video game Angry Birds (shown below, left). In four years, the video gained over five million views and 6,500 comments. On July 16th, 2012, Pomplamoose released the music video for a mashup of the 2011 pop songs “Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye and “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen (shown below, right).
On November 5th, 2013, the pair released a music video mashup of the 2013 pop song “Royals” by Lorde and the 1993 alternative rock song “Loser” by Beck (shown below, left). On February 18th, 2014, Pomplamoose uploaded a music video for their cover of the 2013 pop song “Happy” by Pharrell (shown below, right). In one year, the videos gathered more than 900,000 and 1.7 million views respectively.
Patreon
In May 2013, Conte collaborated with developer Sam Yam to launch the crowdfunding platform Patreon as a means to help artists obtain receive regular payments from fans to fund their work.