B.E.R. is a 'band' in the sense that a random group of studio musicians can be a 'band.' In 2005, a dude named Carl Burnett was assigned the task to come up with eighties-sounding song for the Warner Brothers in-house music library to use for any show that needed something like that in the background. Eventually in 2013-14, Burnett and two other dudes, Frank Enea and William J. Regan sharpened up the original song and produced a track called "The Night Begins to Shine." To identify themselves, they just referred to their 'band' by the acronym B.E.R. after their last names.
In 2014, the producer of the animated (and lest I say brilliant) TV show Teen Titans Go!, was looking for an '80s-themed song for an episode called "Slumber Party" and he used dug into the Warner Brothers library and used 10 seconds of "The Night Begins to Shine." Soon (the next season), the song became a favorite of one of the Teen Titans, Cyborg and the song blew up on YouTube. Next thing you know, the song charted up to number 23 on the national Billboards Top 100. Teen Titans Go! then did a four-episode arc on the song. Warner Brothers released a whole ep of songs by B.E.R. Famous people like Fall Out Boy and CeeLo Green did covers.
It's a brilliant song that veers on the right side of parody. Honestly it's better than any of the shlock that Asia, Survivor, Toto, or GTR came up with in the '80s. Bit it's also a cool thing that Burnett, Enea, and Regan get to be famous for 15 minutes (and hopefully make some bank) despite being anonymous muzak makers for Warner Brothers.
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