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Aug 31, 2016Chapel_Hill_StephenA rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Miranda Sings is the Andy Kaufman of the YouTube generation. Okay, that's a wee bit hyperbolic; no YouTuber will ever be Andy Kaufman. But Miranda Sings wraps social commentary in surrealism (and a lot of red lipstick) and it's generally effective and hilarious. For the uninitiated, Miranda Sings is comedian Colleen Ballinger playing an overly confident teenage girl who gives bad advice, sings poorly, and makes bizarre, uncomfortable faces, parodying similar tendencies in less successful shows. As far as YouTuber books go, this one is charming and weird and not a terrible thing to give your kids and a faithful recreation of Miranda's YouTube channel. It's not going to win her any new fans (turns out her purposefully abrasive character isn't any more palatable on the page) but existing fans will like this one a lot.