Music...11... Mia Rose Youtube phenomena

Mia Rose Singing Unwritten
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1/25/07, 5:07 pm EST
YouTube Phenom Mia Rose Has Her Thorns?

In the last few weeks, vlogs from Mia Rose, a disturbingly well-packaged 18-year-old singer-songwriter, have become some of the most-viewed videos on YouTube. Rose is a well-scrubbed but coy girl-next-door with decent guitar skills, a welcome-to-Hollywood worthy voice and a knack for bearing her midriff without seeming trashy (harder than it looks). She has posted a series of her own original tunes (the particularly cheesy “Husband to Be” is a fan favorite) plus karaoke-style covers on her YouTube channel and has quickly risen to the forefront of the next Lonelygirl15 list. Except Mia Rose might not be a fake.

As her popularity has soared, the expected collection of haters has appeared. Appropriately named YouTuber Lazy Dork wrote a reasonably clever satirical song (with the charming refrain “Shut the fuck up, Mia Rose” sung to the tune of Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”) that mocks Rose for being prepackaged and produced. And in this clip another YouTuber takes us through the various dummy accounts Rose (and presumably her handlers) may be using to boost her YouTube numbers. Meanwhile, Rose isn’t helping matters by recording self-satisfied vlogs about how she doesn’t have enough time for her many fans now that she’s traipsing around the world meeting with record-label reps.

Obviously this girl is manipulating the YouTube system for her own gain, but is there anything wrong with that? Has she violated some sort of social contract with the viewers? And what do you think of the tunes?

-- Elizabeth Goodman
Source:http://www.rollingstone.com

Mia's Own Song!!
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