This video is quite amazing, I got it from Spin magazine which got it from MTV news. Farmer Derek Klingenberg is a farmer who has a YouTube channel and has apparently specialized into parodies of pop songs, farming style, and his latest video, showing him covering Lorde’s ‘Royals’ with a trombone in the middle of a field, is a proof that animals respond to music.
At the beginning there is no cows in sight, but little by little you see the gentle beasts coming closer and closer, forming a circle around him.
Okay, calm down, before calling Royals a good cow call, before concluding that Lorde would be number 1 in the cows’ top 40, we have to consider that may be (very probably) it is just the sound of the trombone that interests them. This guy should definitively repeat the experiment with another famous song and observe if he gets the same effect!
Animals communicate by sounds like us right? Animals feel like us, so there is absolutely no reason they would not respond to music, and they do! If you have a pet you must have noticed. If you have never seen Snowball, the cockatoo, dance, do yourself a favor and watch this or this.
Birds can sing and dance, cows can appreciate music and it has to be universal in the animal kingdom. Music is not humans’ own anymore.
