March was a whirlwind month for the World Wide Web, what with Charlie Sheen's "Tiger Blood" antics and year-old Rebecca Black's "Friday" music video , but nobody was expecting a shirtless man with a mullet and a mustache to capture everyone's attention and serenade us all with the smooth sax sounds of George Michael's "Careless Whisper.
Their viral creation garnered over 42 million views, inspired hordes of copycats and became an enshrined piece of internet lore. Mike Diva : Sergio was a friend who already loved popping up in random places and playing various wind instruments.
Besides the leather pants, mustache and mullet, he was pretty much already Sexy Sax Man before we even made the video. It's basically a documentary. Mike Diva : It took about a week to shoot. It was a blast coming up with more and more ridiculous places for Sergio to show up and bless with his sax.
We actually had a lot more footage that didn't make it into the final video. Sergio Flores : I started playing in 6th grade. Alto sax was the natural choice. Sergio Flores : Well, the character is not too far from the way I really am, so it wasn't too hard to come up with it. I come from a big family of jokesters and pranksters, but Sexy Sax Man's look and style were a combination of both of our ideas. Mike was actually the one that suggested I have a big '80s mustache — hard to believe I didn't have one at the time.
I suggested the mullet. Mike Diva : The video used to have a long intro with Sergio and me introducing the prank. This was before I fully understood how internet attention spans worked, and it kinda bombed. Then, somebody cut out the intro and re-uploaded it to their own channel, and it blew up on Reddit. I basically copied him, cut out the intro and uploaded it again, and that's when it started really gaining traction. I think the moment I fully realized how much it had taken off was when we were flown to New York to be on Jimmy Fallon.
That was wild! Mike Diva : We weren't arrested, but on the way back from the Jimmy Fallon show we decided it would be a good idea to do Sexy Sax Man on the airplane. Sergio went and changed into his costume and busted out of the bathroom blasting "Careless Whisper" on his sax.
He played up and down the isles, and the people on the plane went nuts! Then a guy came up to us and told us we were in huge trouble and that we'd have to stay behind when the plane landed. Apparently, they didn't find our plane hijinks as entertaining. We were escorted off the plane and greeted by six police officers who basically told us that we would be getting two felony charges, one for causing a "potential terrorist distraction" and another for "exposing the identity of a federal air marshal.
Truly the craziest moment of my entire life. Sergio Flores: Probably during our first stop at the Grove, if I remember correctly. Mike and I were pumping ourselves up in the parking lot before shooting. We were both a little nervous. That's a cool memory. Mike Diva : He never reached out or anything, but there's no way in hell he didn't see it. Sergio Flores : I hope he was cool with it. For the record, I am a huge George Michael fan. I even have "Careless Whisper" tattooed on my ribs.
Mike Diva : Well, for starters I was able to live off of that one video for a year, back when YouTube was paying way better money for views. Since then, I've graduated from the YouTube realm and focused on directing commercials and music videos for artists like Lil Nas X. I don't think many people I work with these days know I made that video, but it gets brought up at least once or twice a year in pitch meetings, and it's always fun seeing people trip out on the fact that I was behind it.
Sergio Flores : I don't like to talk about myself too much — I like to remain a bit of a mystery — but I'll just say I'm a happy man. I love music, and I love making people happy. The fact that I can play my sax and entertain people is all I can ask for. Sergio Flores : I've had some really special TV appearances and some commercials. Vitamin Water was one of my favorites. Sergio Flores : Oh, that's a hard one to gauge. They've never stopped. Definitely hundreds, maybe more.
Ultimately, what is it that you hope people remember from the video all these years later? Sergio Flores : I hope they remember George Michael and his music. And I just hope it triggers happy memories for everyone. Every day we send an email with the top stories from Digg. Nothing fills downtime like a card game. So if you're looking for some games worth keeping around the house, these six are worth picking up.
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Read Edit History. Following the group's rise to online fame, the Moldova Foundation mentioned and recognized Epic Sax Guy in multiple blog posts and seemed to take pride in the internet phenomenon originating from Moldova [2] : Epic Sax Guy fever started in Europe, creating a new Moldovan phenomenon.
His fan pages and groups on Facebook gathered over 10 members in less than a week. The fever hit YouTube where his loop has 45, 50 and even thousand views. There even are sites where the melody is played over and over again. The page managed to get over 83 thousand hits.
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