Team Unicorn | |
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Team Unicorn in The Saturday Action Fun Hour!
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Background information | |
Origin | Los Angeles, California |
Genres | Pop, parody, comedy, nerd music |
Instruments | Vocals |
Years active | 2010–present |
Website | www |
Members |
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Past members | Michele Boyd |
Team Unicorn is a multimedia production team formed in Los Angeles, California in 2010. Its current members are American actresses Clare Grant (Walk the Line), Rileah Vanderbilt (Hatchet), Milynn Sarley, and Alison Haislip (Attack of the Show!) who replaced Michele Boyd in 2014. The group is known for producing parody song videos such as "G33k & G4m3r Girls", a spoof of Katy Perry's "California Gurls", and "All About that Base", a Star Wars parody of Meghan Trainor's song "All About That Bass". The videos have established the group among nerd music as well as attracting celebrity appearances. The group had a show on Adult Swim called The Team Unicorn Saturday Action Fun Hour, and have attended numerous science fiction and comic conventions.
Rileah Vanderbilt is largely given credit to bringing the four women of Team Unicorn together. She and Clare Grant became friends in 2005 and began producing geek videos together, even winning two awards at the 2009 Star Wars Fan Film Awards for their short "Saber". Vanderbilt became friends with Milynn Sarley in 2009, and Michele Boyd was introduced in January 2010. The four women cosplayed together as Sailor Moon characters at Comic-Con 2010. Afterwards, Sarley came up with the idea for "G33k and G4M3R Girls", and together they wrote the original lyrics, bringing Vanderbilt and Grant on board to finish the lyrics and produce the video. After the overwhelming response to the first video, more ideas quickly came and "Team Unicorn" was officially born. In 2011, the women became friends with Alison Haislip, who would later replace Boyd as the Blue Unicorn in 2014.