It's kinda inane for a song, but it sure as hell is better than the sexist garbage that is Blurred Lines...but that's a rant for another time.

I'm surprised it's blown up. When I watched it a couple months ago I found it somewhat humorous, but quickly forgot about it. Couldn't have been that bad, can it?

I have to admit, I've quite enjoyed the phenomenological inquiry into bestial vernacular, along with its with vulpine focus...
I don't particularly like things I can easily understand or relate to... Call me a dopamine whore - I like to be stimulated. I like novelty, I like things that make me think. This is no different.
There are tons of songs about love, sex, attraction, dancing... At least in pop music. When I've stumbled upon "The Fox", I was impressed with its innovative approach. I don't care about its "ironic" value - I mostly grew out of that around middle school. I love the face value - a song about bewilderment, desperate struggle for truth, unyielding curiosity. The absurdity initially got me, made me cackle in my favorite "mad scientist" laugh, had me in stitches... Then I started to accept it, to internalize the paradigm, try and envision living in a world where this makes sense. It's mental exercise, I love indulging myself in such a way, it hones the sharpness of my wits, makes my intellect more flexible. I don't have to believe the absurd, but it's nice to imagine and practice doing so. I believe this can shield against dementia at least a little... at the very least - against unwitting bigotry. It's the same reason I might end up playing that old-school Kickstarter point-and-click adventure game about sexual deviants in futuristic San Francisco. It's why I enjoy sci-fi and fantasy both in games, novels and movies. I guess you could say that such an attitude kinda comes with the territory...
I might have unintentionally told you untruth earlier on - I actually like very many thing, a lot of which people find fairly mundane or mainstream. Lately I've been switching between listening to Money For Nothing by Dire Straits, Ted McPain Theme by Sonic Picnic and Telephone by Lady Gaga (bonus points for references to Command&Conquer, Star Wars and Dune in a single music video)...
All of them are somewhat absurd, ironic, weird...
Hell - I've heard Dissanayake's "art is making special" theory as recently as yesterday.
I don't really believe in horrible nonsense - I believe in horrible sense, when people say things that are supposed to make sense, mesh with reality, explain things... only to fall short in simple ways. It's like watching someone mess up when solving an equation - that's not inspiring. What is inspiring, at least to me, are things like koans, the good ones. They make you think, FORCE you out of your intellectual comfort zone. I like being challenged, faced with novel ideas and images. At the very least - I like contrast, the putting together of things that "do not belong". Like the book-reading costume shop clerk that praised Camus' works in Toonstruck...

In summary - it's quite possible that I like the same things as the mainstream for different reasons. To be honest - I like liking things, it makes my life easy; so many things to enjoy. I'd be hand pressed to name a work of art I dislike.
Except Syberia - that game's shit ;P.

And YouTube has the Fox has animated icon for the review of 2013.