Louie Zong
is an American musician who makes various instrumental songs in a variety of genres and styles. His music ranges from silly songs about animals, covers of video game music, and songs made entirely from samples. He is also an animator and illustrator, and his videos often contain animations. He created storyboards for various animated shows, including We Bare Bears, Centaurworld, and The Ghost and Molly McGee.
Tropes:
- Big Guy, Little Guy: His Ghost videos focus on a duo of two singing ghosts, one large and one small.
- Cover Version: He has released covers of video game music in various styles, such as his album ¡kirbia!, which contains covers of music from the Kirby series in the style of cumbia. He has also made covers of popular music in the style of video game music. Most are in the style of Animal Crossing, usually having them be sung by K.K. Slider.
- Doo Wop: The Ghost series of videos features a Big Guy, Little Guy pair of ghosts who often sing short songs in this style. The third installment added a skeleton who accompanied them with themself.
- Edutainment: He will sometimes release videos about chord progression and composing, but does it in a fun way. For example, the "Funk Dojo" lists typical funk chords for bass and guitar but presents it as a shiba inu master and student duo learning together.
- Genre Mashup: The videos in the "Goodwill Beats" series feature songs that combine multiple unrelated genres due to being made completely of random samples.
- Genre Roulette: He constantly makes songs in different genres, although his most common genres are Jazz and Funk.
- In the Style of:
- His video game cover albums are often in the style of other artists. For instance, the album K.K. GIZZARD & THE SPIROID GYROID has songs from Animal Crossing in the style of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
- Rhythm Hell and Rhythm Purgatory borrow their graphical style, Video Game Interface Elements, and some sound effects from Rhythm Heaven, naturally.
- Sampling: In his series "Goodwill Beats", he takes samples from multiple random records he can find from a thrift store and mashes them up into a new song.
- Speaking Simlish: His Animal Crossing videos, such as "Isabelle, Put Your Records On", are sung in Animalese.
- Take That!: In his video "The Juice Man", Louie calls the tape Tips on Juicing that he bought at Goodwill "pseudoscientific BS'', and he destroys the tape with a hammer at the end of the video.
- TV Head Robot: Hello World and signal/noise have a Waddling Head robot with a tv/monitor screen for a face.
- Xylophones for Walking Bones: The skeleton in the third ghost video plays its bones as a xylophone.
