Student singers from the university where Prince William and Kate Middleton met are taking the internet by storm with a royal reworking of a Lady Gaga hit.
A capella band The Other Guys, formed at St Andrews University, have produced a rewrite of Bad Romance telling the story of unrequited love for the bride-to-be.
And their performance of it, shot at locations around the town, is proving a sensation on YouTube.
Just two days after being uploaded, Royal Romance had going on 35,000 hits.
Comments were flooding in, with one viewer writing, “This is one of the best things I’ve seen on YouTube in ages. Congratulations on a great job.”
Call the work brilliant, another asked, “Have Wills and Kate chosen a band for the wedding yet?”
Someone else suggested, “This should play on large video screens in Westminster Abbey during the wedding ceremony.”
And one Canadian viewer was so impressed that she proposed to the band.
Royal Romance includes the lines, “We met in first year, you lived in my halls, I poked you on Facebook and wrote on your wall, I want your love.”
Referring to a local bar, it adds, “Down in the Lizard, I saw you dancing, but crowning up to you was the future king.”
It also says, “I want your loving, just get rid of the prince, you and me could write a bad romance.”
Harking back to the student fashion show in which Kate caught William’s eye, other lyrics, include, “Walk, walk, fashion baby, she’s a regal catwalk lady, walk, walk, fashion baby, see-through dresses drive me crazy.”
Filmed and recorded by the 11-strong outfit, the video shows The Other Guys singing and dancing at famous locations including the Old Course, Castle Sands and St Salvator’s Quad.
It also includes a spoof of Chariots Of Fire, which was filmed on the West Sands, with the singers in running gear chasing after a Kate lookalike.
Since 2004 the band Henry Synge, Dave Borowsky, Ollie Boesen, Matthew Pattie, Andrew Pattie, Rob Baggott La Velle, Matt Hinckley, Mark Gregory, Richard Hanford, Iain Glen and Richard Phillips-has built up a large student following, performing at various events including the May Ball and its own sell-out concerts.