You caught me warming up. I usually warm up for two hours before we do these videos...no I don't but Colleen Ballinger
Ballinger, that's right
Uh everyone knows Miranda
And if you know Miranda, Miranda is this quote unquote singer and she literally says in one of her videos
She warms up for two hours or more
Ok so just explain to everybody okay? What it- how you came up with it. Yes, go okay
I was posting like random youTube videos of me singing and I saw like related videos of like these teenage girls
Posting the same songs that I had sang a performance, but alone in their bedroom acapella
Changing lyrics and doing whatever they wanted with them and they were terrible
but they were so cocky and on their youtube pages in their profile they'd be like I'm doing this to become famous and
I was like that's so ridiculous and no one gets famous from YouTube and it's not
Justin Bieber
right well exactly and Miranda Sings I also- I went to I went to a private Christian university and
there was a lot of people in my program who were just
Just had the characteristics of Miranda the character
Which are what, it's cocky?
Cocky and just they talk like this and just
Like they just thought they were so good and they would record themselves
Singing songs and posted online for everyone to see and no bad comments
They only wanted good feedback
So I was just posting it for fun
And then noticed that other people were watching it and writing kind of rude things every once in a while.
Why the name Miranda?
The name Miranda came from I was doing a show in college and
it was
like a student written production, and then when they cast list went up, it was like
Colleen Ballinger- Miranda
and I was like what? it was like the weirdest show and I think our biggest audience was eight people and
So since there was no one in the show- I was obsessed the name, but also since there's no one in the audience
I would sometimes like kind of goof off onstage and do the Miranda face and stuff and so when I started posting videos online
Okay, so let me start analyzing, so the Miranda face is it's sort of a sidesaddle half wink, thinking you're sexy, okay, go
that's a
confident smirk, okay be- another- so if you watch Miranda, her first video that really took off
It's this this called "free voice lesson"
And I began getting these videos from like Broadway people being like oh my God you have to see this girl she thinks she's good
People took it seriously
I think like Joe Mantello sent it to me and
So within this voice lesson a couple of things that Miranda quote unquote teaches- first of all she does a scale
So here's the regular scale would be
Miranda sings it as
then you talk about your two different types of voices which are what?
yeah, there's the high voice and the low voice and
most people only have one, but I have both
Like that's amazing you get
the High Voice would be
Low voice is. And the low voice is harder to do and louder
God okay, so now and then also to get vibrato, what do you do?
Oh, you shake a part of your body, and it shakes your voice, so I shake my head
Crazy eyes and also what I love is that you sort of see like some people shake their throat with their finger
But that will damage you and I have a sense that the singers that are always "That's going to damage your voice"
are the most annoying singers
and same with
The high voice thing too because I mean I'm like I said I went to school with a bunch of people and like sectionals
were always so funny because he'd be like "if you can't reach a note you just lift your eyebrows really high and stretch your
Head and you'll be able to hit it" people told me that
I would be devastated from any kind of hate comment
But you apparently love getting the hate comments.
I get tons of hate mail every day one of the newest one was I now have ear cancer
But people will say that you know "what you're doing is wrong"
"And I know someone who did exactly what you're doing, and it made their throat bleed, and they almost died okay?"
So once you get into Miranda garb we'll do a little singing. Let's see this is the first video that
I saw actually before free voice lesson. This is my favorite Miranda song that she does a couple of things
It's the diction is crazy the pitch is crazy plus because Miranda]is I guess "pure"
What do you say because you're a good girl?
Oh yeah, Miranda is not that type of girl
She doesn't say bad words
this also comes from
I actually saw a kid's production of this song or my friend saw kids production of the song and they did tights and taps
instead of tits and ass and I thought that was ridiculous
What does that have to do with the song?
Nothing!
I was talking about this the other night with a few friends
And they saw a production of Les Mis where they sang lovely people
like lovely ladies. I love it when people change lyrics to songs that's where I got this idea
but she says
She's not that type of girl, so she changes the lyrics because she can't say
can't say was actually in the actual lyric okay?
So that's the lipstick. It always goes above and below. give me a signature smile
Okay start from the opening dialogue. Enjoy all the above
But after a while, I caught on. I mean I saw what they were hiring.
I also swiped my dance card once after an audition. On a scale of 10 they gave me for dance
ten. for looks
three. well
dance ten looks three
And I'm still on unemployment
dancing for my own enjoyment that ain't it kid, that ain't it kid. Dance ten looks three
is like to die
left the theatre and called the doctor for my appointment to buy
Chest and butt got myself all fancy-pants tighten up the derriere. did the nose with it all that goes with it
Chest and butt, have the bingo bongos done suddenly. I'm getting national tours
chest and butt can change your life, they sure changed mine
Didn't cost a fortune neither. didn't hurt my life either
flat and sassy I would get the strays and losers, beggars really can't be choosers. That ain't it kid that ain't it kid
fix the chassis
How do you do?
Life turned into an endless medley of gee it had to be you! Why?
Chest and butt! Once the cupboard once was bare, now you knock and someone's there, top to bottom hey, top to bottom hey
It's a gas, just a dash of silicone
shake your new maracas and you're fine! Chest and butt
can change your life
they sure changed mine
There's always the extended vibrato at the end. Brava!