Miranda Sings is a fictional character created on the Internet in and portrayed by American comedian, actress and YouTube personality Colleen Ballinger. In these videos, the eccentric, narcissistic, yet endearing character sings and dances badly, gives inept "tutorials", recounts her daily activities, discusses current events that she often misunderstands, collaborates with other 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: Inspired by early YouTube videos that she saw, and by rude classmates, Ballinger created the character as a satire of bad but arrogant singers who believe that posting their videos on YouTube will lead to them breaking into show business.
The character also has an active presence on other social media platforms. Since , in addition to her internet videos, Ballinger has presented live comedy acts, in character as Miranda Sings, at first in cabaret spaces and later in theaters in New York, London, and other cities in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and elsewhere; she toured regularly from to Her acts include Miranda's signature off-key singing of pop music hits and show tunes , with introductions focusing on the character's backstory.
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Her delivery is full of malapropisms , mondegreens and spoonerisms , and the acts incorporate interaction with audience volunteers, giving a "voice lesson" to, or singing a duet with, Broadway or other musical celebrities, reading hate mail, and singing while being stabbed through the neck in her "magic trick". The character has appeared in television and web series and other media. Her first network television appearance was in a episode of the TV show Victorious. Since , Ballinger has posted more than videos as the character Miranda Sings on the YouTube channel of the same name.
More generally, it is a satire of pretentious and untalented performers everywhere. She is narcissistic, infantilized, overconfident and has a relentless ambition to achieve show business fame. In the videos, the Miranda character sings in a comically off-key, yet plausible, voice and covers pop music hits, show tunes and original songs. Sometimes she discusses current events, which she usually misunderstands, gives inept mock-"tutorials", rants about her internet critics or discusses the character's backstory.
The character displays eccentric facial traits such as unusually active eyebrows and a crooked smile described as a "side smirk".
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Since April , [31] in addition to her internet videos, Miranda Sings has performed her one-woman live comedy acts at first at cabaret spaces and later theatres in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Toronto, Amsterdam, Sydney and other cities in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere. In the live comedy acts, Ballinger begins the show as herself and then transforms onstage into Miranda.
The act has autobiographical elements from Miranda's backstory. As an example of the character's delusional arrogance, Miranda stated in her early acts that she expected to perform the role of Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway. During , as part of her act, she announced that she planned to date Cheyenne Jackson who she did not realize is openly gay or to find another boyfriend, who must be talented and famous.
She was photographed and videotaped together with Jackson at Broadway on Broadway , confronting him about their "relationship", and finally receiving a "first kiss" from him. The joke is that she sings better when the sword is inserted through her neck. As the popularity of the character increased, Ballinger was able to book longer sell-out runs of her live comedy acts at larger and larger venues including, in , a six-performance run at the Leicester Square Theatre in London [59] and theatres in Australia. It is as theatrical as it is musical, comedic as it is inspirational.
Miranda [is] hilarious, and I was struck on several occasions by what an accomplished creation the character is — with her own vocabulary, idiosyncrasies and bizarre not to mention increasingly sinister backstory, you've never seen anything like her, and the commitment with which Ballinger embodies this strange, strange girl is nothing short of admirable.
Thomas Locker
Bridging both personas, the moment she transforms into Miranda, on-stage and mid-song, is an absolute joy — I'd struggle to recall hearing an audience erupt to such an extent, and I couldn't help but join in. In her "Selp Helf" tour, she instructed her mostly young, female audience on how to get a boyfriend by being more Miranda-like.
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