Jack Stauber is an American musician, animator, filmmaker, and internet personality based in Pittsburgh. He is recognized for his VHS-aesthetic live action, stop motion, and computer animated music videos which have been featured in internet memes.
plays: voice, electronic keyboard, drum kit, guitar
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Stauber majored in marketing and minored in studio arts at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh. He fronted the band Joose. While he was a college senior, he joined Zaki, a band, as its lead singer and they released a self-titled album in 2018.
Meg Fair of the Pittsburgh City Paper highlighted Stauber's knack of "pulling unrelated sounds and influences into [his] music, throwing them into a bowl and tossing them into a strange salad that challenges your musical taste buds". Jenna Minnig of PennState CommMedia compared Stauber's voice and hypnagogic pop style to Ariel Pink's. However she said it was reductive to compare the two. The Knoxville News Sentinel's Chuck Campbell said that Stauber's music videos are "nostalgic and childlike, but there’s also something disturbingly adult about them, the kind of thing that might have surfaced on Pee-wee's Playhouse back in the day".