Biography
BOI WHAT, whose real name is Eli Strobeck, writes, records, and produces music inspired by the Nickelodeon show Spongebob Squarepants with the help of AI, lands on Billboard’s charts for the first time with “Plan Z.” The song, released September 8, 2023, on Hallwood Recordings, debuts at No. 14 on the Hot Hard Rock Songs chart with 710,000 official streams earned in its opening week. “Plan Z” uses an AI-filtering technology to make the artist’s voice sound like the Spongebob character Plankton (voiced in the series by Mr. Lawrence) about learning the Krabby Patty Secret Formula—a recurring gag in the series. BOI WHAT has released four other Spongebob-inspired songs: “Make a Wish (Squiddy),” “Dear Magic Conch Shell,” “Wish I Woulda Known” and “Just a Pineapple” (which has tallied over 4.5 million official streams since its September 1, 2023 release). The tracks, which contain country, hip-hop and pop elements, also use AI to help BOI WHAT mimic vocals from the Spongebob, Squidward, Patrick Star and Sandy Cheeks characters, voiced by Tom Kenny, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke and Carolyn Lawrence, respectively. “Dear Magic Conch Shell,” notably, draws from Morgan Wallen’s “Cowgirls,” featuring ERNEST. Strobeck also records music under the name Mathue.
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