June 3, 2025 • 7 mins
KT has a story on a band stemming from DFW that started as a bit during Covid, but has turned into a popular performing act, thanks to a huge following on social media.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's going on in Dallas. So us story on w
f A a channel and I just call it channel.
But w FA there's a band. Now, it's a band
and it started. It's the brainchild of a fella from
(00:22):
Denton named Dustin Ballard. And what he started doing during COVID.
He didn't have TikTok at the time, and then COVID
started taking popular songs and kind of mashing them up
into other genres. He's a musician, plays violin, so he
kind of you understands how to use some of this
software and things like that. But he was also having
fun with music videos too, and taking certain songs and
(00:42):
putting them on different music videos and just kind of
having fun when he was during COVID. So, for instance,
this band played a show recently at the Kestler. They've started.
They've they've now formed a band. They're all live I
want to say touring acts. They are like on tour,
but they played gigs. The lead singer from Hazlitt, the
(01:02):
name's Anna Pina, he's the vocalist. There's a bunch of
DFW musicians in this band. They're called There. I ruined
it so it started online, got big on TikTok, two
point eight million followers on Instagram, three point five million
followers on TikTok. So now they can go anywhere in
the world and there'll be someone who knows them because
they have that many followers. And what they do is
(01:24):
he calls it parody. For instance, Eminem's Lose Yourself, but
it's a country waltz. Yeah, straight out of Compton, but
it's polka. I looked at their set list from this
was last year at the dpel Mark Company. They closed
with flow Rider's Low you know, boots with the fur
into the Saints go marching in and then they also
(01:48):
did No Surprises by Radiohead and all the lyrics are
replaced by Miles.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Bad Ass.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Do you have any of this, Well, I have something
that they did on.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
For instance, they did do up Style Down with the
Sickness but Disturbed right what I pulled those from our
buddies Drowning Pool and this is something just did online.
This is June of twenty twenty one, so this is
before they're out playing gigs and stuff. He's probably still
growing this thing. But it's Bodies by Drowning Pool Kids Edition,
(02:20):
The Bodies.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
The Bodies, the bodies, the bodies, that's the gall.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Kids are all jumping in the music video. That's so good.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It's really funny.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Let's put this in rotation on these Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Really crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I was looking at their YouTube channel, I mean, over
a million subscribers there. There was a clip that was
on one of these talk shows. They did fifty cents
into Club but put Conway Twitty behind it and uh,
fifty cents on a talk show and they played it
and he is like, yeah, Beyonce, you've got nothing on me.
Like basically, they're taking credit for it being a country song.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
It's all kind of weird.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And you know what I realized when looking at this
is a couple weeks ago Ben sent me some audio
to pool and it was the Liam Neeson taken but redone.
You know, it was like, uh, you know, not dramatic,
but in another way, I forgot what the whole point
of it was. But they did that, or this guy
did that. So he's just got a bunch of f
(04:00):
W musicians out. Here's what I'm doing. I'm kind of
doing comedy, sort of kind of parody, but all these
talented musicians and they're reworking these songs and They're doing
a lot of crazy things with it, and I kind
of wanted to see them now.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
It sounds fun.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I think Robert O'Neill, one of the guys in the
Seal Team six, which I don't know if you know
about the Seal Team six lunch, it's incredible. Twenty two
thousand calories about what they ate after they got been lunch. Yes, yeah, trying.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
To make a Bingo card. He's going to be there
spot on the Bingo card because you bring it up
every damn day.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Robert O'Neill reblasted the one that had they did jump
over a Charlie Daniels band kind of thing, and Robert
O'Neill's kind.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Of like, since I saw this, you have to see
it too kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
And so I responded to him with what the lunch
was at rich Tavern.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Good work, Christina needs to see friendship this. They did
a song too, He mixed this together. This is a
long time ago. Got the Yas song. See if you
can figure out all.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
The people, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I know I got the Beatles, Brittany, Metallic Genius, Metallica
is in there. Freddie Mercury, Freddy Mercury Little John. Of
course I think that was already on the Grande but
over time, Okay, that was right, Yeah, le.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, Nickelback.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Sorry, feetles amazing.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Have you guys Have you guys seen the you know
a lot of this starts when you take old video
and you overdub your own audio. We always laugh at
the one with Dancing in the Street with Mick Jack
and David Bowie, or the g I Joe.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, g I Joe.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
And there's a ton of them where they take live
heavy metal performances and they just replay it out of tune,
you know, and it's it's so so funny. There's one
there's an account I've really been digging where they take
NBA highlights and they just overdub fun It's like the
sounds of sneakers squeaking and the ball bouncing in an
empty chain and then someone will foul and someone go,
(06:39):
it's really good. It's just like all these NBA clips
with like real minimal audio on top of it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Those are great bits. Yeah, that's fantastic. We send that
or posted on social or something. Oh, I need to
get a link to that. Put that in your panties.
That's really good. Yeah, and then I'll go in a
penny raid and grab this. All right, coming up next
in the weekly weekday Update, We're gonna take his kt.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Where are the people going to? Where are they going to?
A right
What's going on in Dallas. So us story on w
f A a channel and I just call it channel.
But w FA there's a band. Now, it's a band
and it started. It's the brainchild of a fella from
(00:22):
Denton named Dustin Ballard. And what he started doing during COVID.
He didn't have TikTok at the time, and then COVID
started taking popular songs and kind of mashing them up
into other genres. He's a musician, plays violin, so he
kind of you understands how to use some of this
software and things like that. But he was also having
fun with music videos too, and taking certain songs and
(00:42):
putting them on different music videos and just kind of
having fun when he was during COVID. So, for instance,
this band played a show recently at the Kestler. They've started.
They've they've now formed a band. They're all live I
want to say touring acts. They are like on tour,
but they played gigs. The lead singer from Hazlitt, the
(01:02):
name's Anna Pina, he's the vocalist. There's a bunch of
DFW musicians in this band. They're called There. I ruined
it so it started online, got big on TikTok, two
point eight million followers on Instagram, three point five million
followers on TikTok. So now they can go anywhere in
the world and there'll be someone who knows them because
they have that many followers. And what they do is
(01:24):
he calls it parody. For instance, Eminem's Lose Yourself, but
it's a country waltz. Yeah, straight out of Compton, but
it's polka. I looked at their set list from this
was last year at the dpel Mark Company. They closed
with flow Rider's Low you know, boots with the fur
into the Saints go marching in and then they also
(01:48):
did No Surprises by Radiohead and all the lyrics are
replaced by Miles.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Bad Ass.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Do you have any of this, Well, I have something
that they did on.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
For instance, they did do up Style Down with the
Sickness but Disturbed right what I pulled those from our
buddies Drowning Pool and this is something just did online.
This is June of twenty twenty one, so this is
before they're out playing gigs and stuff. He's probably still
growing this thing. But it's Bodies by Drowning Pool Kids Edition,
(02:20):
The Bodies.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
The Bodies, the bodies, the bodies, that's the gall.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Kids are all jumping in the music video. That's so good.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It's really funny.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Let's put this in rotation on these Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Really crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I was looking at their YouTube channel, I mean, over
a million subscribers there. There was a clip that was
on one of these talk shows. They did fifty cents
into Club but put Conway Twitty behind it and uh,
fifty cents on a talk show and they played it
and he is like, yeah, Beyonce, you've got nothing on me.
Like basically, they're taking credit for it being a country song.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
It's all kind of weird.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And you know what I realized when looking at this
is a couple weeks ago Ben sent me some audio
to pool and it was the Liam Neeson taken but redone.
You know, it was like, uh, you know, not dramatic,
but in another way, I forgot what the whole point
of it was. But they did that, or this guy
did that. So he's just got a bunch of f
(04:00):
W musicians out. Here's what I'm doing. I'm kind of
doing comedy, sort of kind of parody, but all these
talented musicians and they're reworking these songs and They're doing
a lot of crazy things with it, and I kind
of wanted to see them now.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
It sounds fun.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I think Robert O'Neill, one of the guys in the
Seal Team six, which I don't know if you know
about the Seal Team six lunch, it's incredible. Twenty two
thousand calories about what they ate after they got been lunch. Yes, yeah, trying.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
To make a Bingo card. He's going to be there
spot on the Bingo card because you bring it up
every damn day.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Robert O'Neill reblasted the one that had they did jump
over a Charlie Daniels band kind of thing, and Robert
O'Neill's kind.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Of like, since I saw this, you have to see
it too kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
And so I responded to him with what the lunch
was at rich Tavern.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Good work, Christina needs to see friendship this. They did
a song too, He mixed this together. This is a
long time ago. Got the Yas song. See if you
can figure out all.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
The people, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I know I got the Beatles, Brittany, Metallic Genius, Metallica
is in there. Freddie Mercury, Freddy Mercury Little John. Of
course I think that was already on the Grande but
over time, Okay, that was right, Yeah, le.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, Nickelback.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Sorry, feetles amazing.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Have you guys Have you guys seen the you know
a lot of this starts when you take old video
and you overdub your own audio. We always laugh at
the one with Dancing in the Street with Mick Jack
and David Bowie, or the g I Joe.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, g I Joe.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
And there's a ton of them where they take live
heavy metal performances and they just replay it out of tune,
you know, and it's it's so so funny. There's one
there's an account I've really been digging where they take
NBA highlights and they just overdub fun It's like the
sounds of sneakers squeaking and the ball bouncing in an
empty chain and then someone will foul and someone go,
(06:39):
it's really good. It's just like all these NBA clips
with like real minimal audio on top of it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Those are great bits. Yeah, that's fantastic. We send that
or posted on social or something. Oh, I need to
get a link to that. Put that in your panties.
That's really good. Yeah, and then I'll go in a
penny raid and grab this. All right, coming up next
in the weekly weekday Update, We're gonna take his kt.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Where are the people going to? Where are they going to?
A right
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