While I love YouTube, I love it for all the reasons you're not supposed to love it: essentially, I love it for being a searchable online library of cool, copyright-infringing video, like that episode of Friends where they get free porn. The much vaunted user community? Not so much: almost universally, they make me despair for the human race. It's like Second Life... so much creative potential ruined by the exuberant application of a stupidity and incompetence bordering on the non-sentient.
But Mary Anne, "YouTube's answer to Marilyn Monroe?" (which is completely unfair... Marilyn Monroe couldn't sing) I love this girl. She's not doing anything particularly progressive: simply singing into the camera. But she's charged, dramatic, funny, sexy and... even better... a great singer. Here, she does Cole Porter's 'Let's Misbehave' with so much simple sass, pep and charm, I almost forget she's a popular member of the second most loathsome sub-stratum of artistry: Web 2.0 video sites. First most loathsome sub-stratum? Second Life.
By the way, it's hard to tell if she's singing this or lip-syncing. Given the consistency of her voice across her other songs, I think she's probably lip-syncing her own singing, but that's just a guess.
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