Miranda Sings
Info: Miranda Sings is an Internet character created in 2008 and portrayed by American comedian, actress and YouTube personality Colleen Ballinger. Ballinger displays videos of the comically talentless, egotistical and quirky character on her YouTube channel under the username Miranda Sings. In these videos, the character sings and dances badly, gives inept "tutorials", recounts her daily activities, discusses current events that she often misunderstands, collaborates with other (often reluctant) YouTubers, and rants about her critics, reading examples of hate mail directed at the character on social media; she responds to them with her catchphrase: "Haters Back Off!".
Ballinger created the character as a satire of the many bad but arrogant singers who believe that posting their videos on YouTube will lead to them breaking into show business. As of May 2015, the Miranda Sings YouTube channel had surpassed 450 million views and 4 million subscribers. Miranda has been ranked the 7th "most popular" YouTube personality by Daily American[4] and the channel was ranked No. 38 of all time by NewMediaRockstars. The character also has an active presence on other social media.
Since 2009, in addition to her internet videos, Ballinger has regularly performed live comedy acts, in character as Miranda Sings, at cabaret spaces and theaters in New York, London, and other cities in the US, UK, Europe, Canada, Australia and elsewhere. Her acts include Miranda's signature off-key singing of show tunes and pop music hits, with introductions focusing on the character's backstory. Her delivery is full of malapropisms and spoonerisms, and the acts often incorporate giving a "voice lesson" to, or singing a duet with, Broadway or other musical celebrities, reading hate mail, interaction with audience volunteers, and singing while being stabbed through the neck in her "magic trick". The character has appeared in web series, in radio and internet interviews, and in an episode of the TV show Victorious. In 2014, Ballinger was nominated for a Teen Choice Award for her performances as Miranda Sings. The same year, she guest-starred on an episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Jerry Seinfeld and appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Ballinger created the character as a satire of the many bad but arrogant singers who believe that posting their videos on YouTube will lead to them breaking into show business. As of May 2015, the Miranda Sings YouTube channel had surpassed 450 million views and 4 million subscribers. Miranda has been ranked the 7th "most popular" YouTube personality by Daily American[4] and the channel was ranked No. 38 of all time by NewMediaRockstars. The character also has an active presence on other social media.
Since 2009, in addition to her internet videos, Ballinger has regularly performed live comedy acts, in character as Miranda Sings, at cabaret spaces and theaters in New York, London, and other cities in the US, UK, Europe, Canada, Australia and elsewhere. Her acts include Miranda's signature off-key singing of show tunes and pop music hits, with introductions focusing on the character's backstory. Her delivery is full of malapropisms and spoonerisms, and the acts often incorporate giving a "voice lesson" to, or singing a duet with, Broadway or other musical celebrities, reading hate mail, interaction with audience volunteers, and singing while being stabbed through the neck in her "magic trick". The character has appeared in web series, in radio and internet interviews, and in an episode of the TV show Victorious. In 2014, Ballinger was nominated for a Teen Choice Award for her performances as Miranda Sings. The same year, she guest-starred on an episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Jerry Seinfeld and appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
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