No, not like that; I haven’t been selected for the NPR Talent Quest (though you do still have a couple days left to register on the site and vote favorably on my entry, if you feel so kind). But I did get an excited voicemail this afternoon from a friend who was listening to the radio and suddenly heard my dulcet tones between snippets of Superfreak and Brickhouse.

NPR’s Robert Smith did a story today about (surprise, surprise) Hillary Clinton’s YouTube video, and decided to focus on my response as an example of the vulnerability candidates embrace in the vlogosphere (who, moi???):

Turning to the internet makes the process even more of a gamble, allowing people to suggest less than flattering songs. Shelby in Atlanta submitted a video response to Clinton on YouTube:

“What else is good for a sexy campaign?” [Superfreak] “Ehh, not so much.” [Brickhouse] “No, I really don’t think you fill that one out either.” [Cold As Ice] “Damn! Why is it so many of the old school hits really conjure up that negative image that people had of you in the past?”

But for every slam, there are actual, sincere people on the internet, singing their hearts out for Clinton.

Okay, admittedly my video response was far more tongue-in-cheek than sincere, but now I’m not an actual person? Jeez, first I live in my parents’ basement, now this!

But hey, just like Robert Smith himself says at the end of his piece, “Any buzz is good buzz.”

Someone please give me a job. Buzz buzz buzz. PBR buzz.

[Here’s the particular snippet about my video; if you listen to the whole story, perk up around the 2:20 mark.]



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