Miel Bredouw

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Miel Bredouw
Born
Mariel Wade Bredouw[1]

(1989-07-11) July 11, 1989 (age 32)[1]
Los Angeles, California, U.S.[1]
NationalityAmerican
Other namesMielmonster
OccupationPodcaster, comedian, musician
Years active2014–present
Notable work
Punch Up the Jam

Miel Bredouw (/miˈɛl/ mee-EL, born July 11, 1989), is a comedian, podcaster and musician. Initially gaining fame on video site Vine in 2014, Bredouw began co-hosting the HeadGum podcast Punch Up the Jam alongside Demi Adejuyigbe in 2017, becoming the sole host in 2019. In July 2020, Bredouw released her debut album as a musical artist, entitled Tourist Season.

Biography[]

Bredouw was born in Los Angeles,[1] however spent her childhood on Orcas Island in Washington State.[2] When she was 19, Bredouw moved to Los Angeles to pursue a music career, and became involved with the improv/sketch comedy group Upright Citizens Brigade.[3][4]

Bredouw began posting videos to video site Vine in 2014 under the name Mielmonster, while she was working as a sous-chef for a restaurant in Echo Park.[4][5] Over the next two years Bredouw became one of the most popular creators on the platform,[6][7] and was featured in Camp Unplug, a series produced by the platform.[8] By the time the platform closed, Bredow's videos had been looped more than 328 million times by 2016, and her account had over 370,000 followers.[4][3] Following the platform's closure, Bredouw began posting video content to YouTube.[4]

In 2019, a YouTube clip Bredouw had created singing the tune of "Carol of the Bells" with the lyrics to Three 6 Mafia's “Slob on My Knob” in 2016 was posted by pop culture blog Barstool Sports without crediting her. After lodging a DMCA claim on Twitter, Barstool Sports offered her a $50 gift card to retract her claim.[9] After Bredouw did not respond to further offers, hundreds of messages from Barstool Sports-related accounts or a $2,000 offer, the company filed a counter-notice to Twitter, forcing Bredouw to take legal action if she wanted the company to stop using her videos.[10][11] As a result, Barstool Sports deleted over 60,000 posts from its Twitter account and 1,000 posts from its Instagram account.[12]

In 2017, Bredouw began hosting the HeadGum podcast Punch Up the Jam alongside Demi Adejuyigbe, a writer and comedian who similarly gained fame on Vine.[13] The podcast involves discussing a popular song with a celebrity guest, and creating a parody (or "punch up") of the song, typically a comedic take that addresses the song's weaker points.[14] In 2018, the podcast was named one of the best podcasts of the year by The A.V. Club.[15] Bredouw continued the podcast as its stand-alone host, reformatting the show slightly to allow for discussed songs to be "unpunchable" and including contributions from yMusic's Rob Moose.[16][17] During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in New York City, comedian Chris Fleming joined the podcast as a temporary co-host.[18] In addition to working on Punch Up the Jam, Bredouw has produced comedy for Funny or Die, Super Deluxe, HBO, and BuzzFeed,[4] and makes regular appearances on Ian Karmel's All Fantasy Everything podcast.[19]

Bredouw debuted as a musician in 2020, releasing her singles "Must Be Fine" and “I’ll Be Holding” in July.[20][21] These were followed by her debut album Tourist Season, which was produced by her brother Henri Bardot.[21] The album was created over a month and a half in mid-2019, in her parents' barn.[22] The seven tracks on the album each represent a different emotion associated with the break-up of a relationship.[22]

Personal life[]

Her father, Jim Bredouw, is a studio musician who co-founded LA Studios / Margarita Mix while living in Hollywood,[23][24] and worked on a piece of music used in three Nike campaigns.[25][26] Bredouw has two siblings, musician Henri Bardot (member of the band Perlo alongside Mree)[27] and California College of the Arts design lecturer Minnie Bredouw.[1][28] Bredouw announced that she was dating Anthony Padilla of YouTube channel Smosh in September 2017.[7]

Bredouw is vegan, and ran a vegan wedding cake business called Bramble Bakeshop when she lived in Los Angeles.[5]

Discography[]

Studio albums[]

Title Album details
Tourist Season

Singles[]

List of singles, showing year released and album name
Title Year Album
"Must Be Fine"[20] 2020 Tourist Season
"I'll Be Holding"[30]

Guest appearances[]

Title Year Other artists Album
Additional vocals (all songs)[31] 2013 Henri Bardot Tunnels
"Leaving"[32] 2015 Pax Leaving
"Figurine"[33] 2016 Henri Bardot Blue Night

Filmography[]

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2015 EastSiders Waitress 2 episodes
2015 Camp Unplug[8] Mielmonster Main cast

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e Shrestha, Binesh (July 21, 2019). "Meet Miel Bredouw – Photos Of Anthony Padilla's Girlfriend". Ecelebrity Mirror. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  2. ^ Bredouw, Minnie (November 30, 2016). "The Light". Medium. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Harvilla, Rob (November 2, 2016). "The Vine Stars Are Alright". The Ringer. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d e Escandon, Rosa (May 16, 2019). "29-Year-Old Miel Bredouw Believes In Digital Comedy". Forbes. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  5. ^ a b Rentz, Joanna (May 18, 2015). "Get to Know All-Vegan Bakery, Bramble Bakeshop!". BLDG 25. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  6. ^ "MIELMONSTER". Shorty Awards. 2016. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  7. ^ a b "MIEL BREDOUW". Shorty Awards. 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  8. ^ a b Hamedy, Saba (June 28, 2016). "'Camp Unplug': Meet Vine's first long-form series". Mashable. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  9. ^ Statt, Nick (March 4, 2019). "A comedian's fight with Barstool Sports shows how Twitter's copyright system can hurt creators". The Verge. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  10. ^ Crichton, Maddie (March 5, 2019). "Comedian Fires Back at Twitter and Barstool Sports Over Copyright Issues". Rogue Rocket. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  11. ^ Martin, Brittany (March 6, 2019). "A Sports Site Hijacked a Comedian's Video—and Intimidated Her for Complaining". Los Angeles Magazine. Retrieved March 11, 2019.
  12. ^ Ley, Tom. "Barstool Sports Quietly Tries To Un-FuckJerry Itself, Deletes 60,000 Social Media Posts". Deadspin. Retrieved March 11, 2019.
  13. ^ Kramer, Mark (April 8, 2019). "Want to Try Punch Up the Jam? Start Here". Vulture. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  14. ^ Pearce, Tilly (January 27, 2019). "Podcast of the Week: Punch Up The Jam with Miel Bredouw and Demi Adejuyigbe". Metro.co.uk. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  15. ^ "The best podcasts of 2018 so far". The A.V. Club. June 25, 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  16. ^ "84 - Hotel California PART ONE (w/ Miel's Dad)". HeadGum.
  17. ^ @punchupthejam (December 19, 2019). "the podcast has officially PEAKED" (Tweet). Retrieved April 13, 2020 – via Twitter.
  18. ^ "'Sugar, We're Goin Down' by Fall Out Boy (w/ Chris Fleming)". Art19. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  19. ^ "All Fantasy Everything with Ian Karmel". HeadGum. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  20. ^ a b "Must Be Fine - Single". iTunes. July 1, 2020. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
  21. ^ a b Mineo, Mike (July 16, 2020). "Miel – "I'll Be Holding"". Obscure Sound. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  22. ^ a b Young, David James (July 27, 2020). "Comedian Miel Bredouw On Making One Of 2020's Most Beautiful & Quietly-Devastating Albums". Music Feeds. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  23. ^ Smith, Colleen (June 13, 2018). "Sometimes being a dad means dressing up as a unicorn Father's Day profile". The Islands' Sounder. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  24. ^ Moayeri, Lily (April 1, 2019). "The Enduring Style and Talent of Margarita Mix". Mix. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  25. ^ ""Heritage" (aka The Music Nike Couldn't Let Go)". KicksOnFire. January 11, 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  26. ^ Meyers, Jeff (May 10, 1987). "Shoe Biz". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  27. ^ Ammann, Ana (September 29, 2018). "Perlo: A (Fairy) Tale of Two Cities coming to the Old Church Concert Hall". Oregon Music News. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  28. ^ "Minnie Bredouw". California College of the Arts. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  29. ^ "Tourist Season". Bandcamp. July 1, 2020. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
  30. ^ "I'll Be Holding - Single". iTunes. July 12, 2020. Retrieved July 12, 2020.
  31. ^ "Tunnels". Bandcamp. 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  32. ^ "leaving". Bandcamp. 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  33. ^ "Blue Night". Bandcamp. 2016. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
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