Colleen Ballinger

Ballinger, in 2012

Colleen Ballinger (born November 21, 1986) is an American comedian, actress, singer and YouTube personality. She is best known for her Internet character Miranda Sings, posting videos of the character on YouTube, and performing her one-woman comedy act on tour in theatres worldwide. She created the comically talentless, egotistical and quirky character to satirize the many YouTube videos featuring people singing badly, but who appear unaware of their lack of talent. In her videos and in her stage act, the character sings and dances badly, discusses current events that she often misunderstands, gives inept "tutorials", collaborates with other (often reluctant) YouTubers, and rants about her critics, the "haters".

Ballinger also features comedy and lifestyle videos on her personal YouTube channel, PsychoSoprano. Her YouTube channels, combined, have surpassed 700 million views. In 2014, Ballinger was nominated for a Teen Choice Award for her performances as Miranda Sings.[1] As of May 1, 2015, her channels were ranked as the No. 18 (Miranda Sings) and No. 35 (Psychosoprano) comedy channels on YouTube by data compiler Social Blade.[2]

Ballinger has appeared as an actress and singer Off-Broadway, in regional theatre, on television and in web series, and has sung as a guest artist on albums. In 2014, she guest-starred as Miranda Sings on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Jerry Seinfeld and appeared as Miranda on The Tonight Show. Ballinger was a guest co-host on The View in January 2015. She appeared as Miranda on The Grace Helbig Show in April 2015.

Biography

Early life; acting and music career

Ballinger was born and raised in Santa Barbara, California, the daughter of Tim Ballinger, a sales manager, and his wife Gwen, a homemaker.[3] Ballinger attended San Marcos High School and graduated in 2008 from Azusa Pacific University, where she majored in vocal performance.[4] Ballinger has two older brothers, Christopher and Trent, and a younger sister, Rachel.[3][5]

From 2007 to 2009, Ballinger performed for Disney in California and gave private voice, movement coaching and piano lessons to children.[6] In 2009, she played Kelsi Nielson in High School Musical at Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre in Claremont, California.[7] Ballinger appears on the 2010 album More With Every Line, by songwriter Tim Prottey-Jones,[8] and the 2011 album Self Taught, Still Learning by Chris Passey.[9] She played Lynda Bird Johnson in a staged reading of First Kids in New York in June 2011, and in October 2011 she created the role of Circe in the American Theatre of Actors Off-Broadway production Odyssey – The Epic Musical.[10]

In 2012, Ballinger was featured as nurse Royal in the web series Dr. Fubalous.[11] She also gave a talk at the Boston Children's Theatre about how to use social media to promote yourself as a performer.[12][13] In 2013, Ballinger starred in the episode "Under the Bed" in the web series The Flipside[14] and as Amara in episode 9 of season 2 of the web series Hipsterhood.[15] She appears as Meg on the Volume 12 DVD of Family Guy in the live-action version of the show's introduction.[16] Also in 2013, she was featured on the MTV True Life episode "I'm Famous Online".[17] In 2014, she appeared in the episode "Wedding Plans" on the web series MyMusic.[18] In April 2014, Ballinger and singer/Youtuber Joshua David Evans[19] became engaged, and the couple released a video to celebrate his proposal, which has garnered more than 3 million views on YouTube.[20] Their relationship was featured in 2015 on Nightline.[21]

Ballinger was a guest co-host on The View in January 2015.[22] In February 2015, Ballinger was interviewed on the podcast RuPaul: What's the Tee? with Michelle Visage.[23] She is scheduled to appear in Season 2 of the Condé Nast Entertainment webseries #HeyUSA, with host Mamrie Hart, to be released on YouTube and other distribution platforms in April 2015.[24]

YouTube and comedy act

Ballinger opening her act as herself, in 2014, before changing into Miranda.[25]

Ballinger has uploaded more than 500 videos to her YouTube channel, Psychosoprano, featuring comedy, question and answer videos, and Ballinger discussing culture and current topics or vlogging daily or holiday activities with her family, fiance, friends (including Ariana Grande and GloZell Green) and YouTube colleagues.[26] The channel is "highly recommended" by Emertainment Monthly.[5] As of April 2015, it has received more than 250 million views and has more than 2.3 million subscribers. Her Miranda Sings channel has surpassed 450 million views and 3.8 million subscribers.[27] In 2014, Backstage magazine singled Ballinger out as a performer who has "taken great advantage of producing their own content [online] and gathering large fan bases to promote their work."[28]

In 2009, Ballinger began to make a living by performing her live one-woman comedy act in character as Miranda. She arranged her own appearances and publicity for the first nine months but realized that she needed a professional manager.[29][30][31] She moved to New York City in 2010 but returned to the West coast in 2012 when she realized that, to maximize her YouTube audience, she needed to collaborate with the community of YouTubers based in Los Angeles. Nevertheless, she says that she gets the most satisfaction from her live performances.[32][33] Ballinger has been able to turn the popularity of her videos into income from a percentage of advertising fees.[32][34] She told the Wall Street Journal: "I have to do things like torture myself to keep people watching" her YouTube videos.[34] To this end, she made a popular cinnamon challenge video in character as Miranda,[34][35] Some of the videos contain paid endorsements, and Ballinger offers merchandise on the mirandasings.com website.[36][21] Until March 2013, Ballinger's YouTube audience were modest, but in that month, her Miranda Sings channel's audience reached 150,000 subscribers,[37] and both of her YouTube channels began to expand far more rapidly.[38]

Miranda Sings

Main article: Miranda Sings

YouTube videos

"Miranda Sings" at VidCon 2014 in Anaheim, California

Since January 2008, Ballinger has posted more than 400 videos as her comically talentless, egotistical and quirky character, Miranda Sings, primarily on the YouTube channel Miranda Sings.[39][40] The character is a satire of the many YouTube videos featuring bad, but egotistical, performers who film themselves singing as a form of self-promotion, despite receiving the realistic or cruel comments of "haters".[41][42] "Miranda" is supposedly a home-schooled young woman who still lives with her mother and uncle; she believes that she is famous and is obsessed with show business fame.[43]

In the videos, Miranda sings in a comically off-key, yet plausible, voice and covers mostly pop music hits and sometimes discusses the character's backstory or current events, which she usually misunderstands, or gives "tutorials".[36] She uses spoonerisms and malapropisms, is irritable, ludicrously self-absorbed and self-righteous, socially awkward, and has a defiant, arrogant attitude.[44][45][46] She responds to viewers who take the videos seriously and offer criticism with the catchphrase, "Haters back off!",[47] telling these critics that "haters make me famous".[41][48] The character displays unusually active eyebrows and a crooked smile,[36][45] her head is cocked to one side, and she has pronunciation quirks.[43] She wears bright red lipstick drawn beyond the borders of her lips, dresses in mismatched out-of-style clothing, and often dances stiffly to the music she is performing.[30][49] Her views of society and morality are politically incorrect, and she displays a strong aversion to anything risque, which she calls "porn".[50][51] From 2010 to 2012, Ballinger posted 86 Miranda video blogs to a second Miranda YouTube channel, Mirandavlogz.[52]

Ballinger based the character partly on young women that she knew in college.[43] She told The Times of London, "There were a lot of cocky girls who thought they were really talented, and they ... were so rude and snotty.... Then I saw all these girls trying to make a career out of putting videos on YouTube [of themselves singing in their bedrooms] ... clueless to the fact that they were terrible."[4][53] At first, the "Miranda videos were meant to be an inside joke" among Ballinger's friends.[29][54] In March 2009, however, a Miranda video called "Free Voice Lesson" quickly became a sensation.[53][55] The video consists of bad advice about singing technique.[4][43] Miranda's videos drew predictably sharp criticism on YouTube, and as they became popular, Ballinger modified the character in response to the negative comments. She says: "I took what people hated and exaggerated it more in the next video."[30][56] The online critics were so harsh that Miranda became a "hero of the anti-bullying movement".[47][57]

Live comedy act

Since April 2009,[58] Ballinger has performed a one-woman comedy act, as Miranda Sings, at first in cabaret spaces and later in theatres in New York, London, and other cities in the US, UK, Australia, Europe, Canada and elsewhere.[59][60][61] BroadwayWorld.com called her "the hottest, freshest and oddest breakout star in the musical theatre/cabaret scene".[62]

In the live comedy acts, Miranda sings pop hits and some musical theatre songs in her signature off-key style;[63] gives "voice lessons" or "acting lessons" to Broadway or West End stars, such as Sutton Foster and Andrew Rannells, to assembled casts of Broadway shows,[43] and to pop stars such as Ariana Grande,[64] in which she is hypercritical of the stars' performances, telling them that they should leave show-business; indignantly reads hate mail that she has received; interacts with audience volunteers; and uses projected presentations containing terrible spelling.[47][65][66] She includes a "magic trick" where she sings while appearing to be stabbed through the neck by a sword; she sings better when the sword is inserted through her neck.[67]

Miranda, with Rachel Ballinger, on stage in 2014[68]

In her 2014 "Selp Helf" tour, she instructed her (mostly young, female) audience on how to get a boyfriend by being more Miranda-like,[69][70] using "the four daily concepts of porn, bullies, love and 'haters' ... improvising [with volunteers] and creating punchlines on the spot. ... Ballinger, the genius behind Miranda, is so convincing in the role, you ... will likely forget that there is a normal person behind the red lips".[63][71][72] One reviewer commented that the show "is no mere ... reproduction of her Internet channel. It is as theatrical as it is musical, comedic as it is inspirational."[46] Another concurred: "Miranda [is] hilarious, and I was struck on several occasions by what an accomplished creation the character is. ... 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."[25] Ballinger gave Miranda shows in 57 cities in 2014.[73]

Other Miranda appearances and activities

In 2009, Ballinger released a Christmas EP entitled "Christmas With Miranda Sings".[74] Miranda has been featured in radio, television and internet interviews.[44][75] Ballinger has also appeared or hosted as Miranda at award shows[76][77] and benefit concerts.[4][78] Miranda sings two tracks in character on Passey's album Self Taught, Still Learning.[9] In 2012, the character appeared in a comedy film, Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads,[79] and in an episode of the television show Victorious, titled "Tori Goes Platinum", on the Nickelodeon channel.[80][81] Miranda appeared in the first episode of Dance Chat, an Australian web show, in 2013.[82] She also appeared in an "Unlimited" 2014 back to school video by Old Navy that received more than 5 million views online.[83]

Ballinger guest-starred as Miranda Sings in the season 5 episode, "Happy Thanksgiving Miranda", of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Jerry Seinfeld, available since November 27, 2014.[84] Seinfeld called Miranda "a very well-developed character ... just as funny to me as ... to my daughter, who is 13. ... [The episode is] one of the best shows of Comedians in Cars we’ve ever done."[85] Mediaite agreed, writing: "In its fifth season, Jerry Seinfeld's web series continued to be one of the most enjoyable weekly events on the internet. His experience with YouTube star Miranda Sings, which carried its way onto the Tonight Show, was a particular highlight."[86] An Uproxx review compared Ballinger to Andy Kaufman, calling the episode "a pretty fun experience".[87] On December 1, 2014, Ballinger appeared as Miranda on The Tonight Show playing Pictionary with Jimmy Fallon, Martin Short and Jerry Seinfeld.[88] Us Weekly called the segment "the most hilarious game night ever",[89] Entertainment Weekly called it "a riveting game".[90] and People magazine wrote: "It's the most wonderful trainwrecked game of Pictionary you'll see this holiday season".[91]

Ballinger appeared as Miranda on The Grace Helbig Show on April 17, 2015 with Jim Parsons.[92] and is scheduled to release a Miranda book, Selp Helf, on July 21, 2015, published by Simon & Schuster. BroadwayWorld calls it a "decidedly unhelpful, candid, hilarious 'how-to' guide" with extensive artwork by Miranda Sings.[93] The book has had significant pre-release sales.[94]

Reception

Ballinger's videos have received a total of more than 700 million views,[27] and her channels have ranked as the No. 16 (Miranda Sings) and No. 32 (Psychosoprano) comedy channels on YouTube, according to data compiler Social Blade.[2] In January 2015, Miranda was ranked the 7th "most popular YouTube personality" by Daily American.[95] The Los Angeles Times wrote of her videos, "this footage is a major hoot".[39] Perez Hilton praised Miranda's parody of the hit song "Chandelier" as "the crowning achievement of music video parodies ... utterly fantastic. ... [Ballinger] really has superb comedic timing."[96] Initially, Ballinger's character enjoyed widespread popularity among musical theatre fans.[30][32][39] Later, her fan base expanded particularly among teenagers.[60][97][98]

The Times of London commented that although Ballinger's videos have gained her character notice, it "is not online but on stage that Miranda truly comes to ghastly life."[41] A reviewer from the Irish Independent wrote: "There is an endearing sweetness to her performance. ... This bizarre and bonkers show is somehow strangely compelling".[99] A 2013 reviewer concurred: "[O]nly a truly talented performer could make the Miranda character believable, let alone as endearing as she ends up being."[45][100] AussieTheatre.com stated that Ballinger "creates the most successful parody of the world of YouTube ... she has created an international cult following".[101] As the popularity of the character has increased, Ballinger has been able to book longer runs of her live Miranda act, at larger and larger venues,[97][102] including the Best Buy Theater in New York City[69] and, among many others, London's Cadogan Hall.[63][103]

In 2014, Ballinger was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Choice Web Star: Comedy.[1] TV Guide commented: "Ironically, the character ... was created to satirize the very type of YouTube fame she's managed to cultivate."[104]

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