Miel Bredouw

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]

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]