Grant Robertson · new media superhero

I can’t say I’ve been following the lonleygirl15 saga. I’m not a big YouTube user, as uncool as that might make me. So, you can imagine my surprise when I discovered this on The Reluctant Midwesterner, “I was recently surfing through the YouTube universe and came across a video blog by LonelyGirl15. The music used in this video is by Lisa DeBenedictis . I was absolutely and uterly transfixed by the vocals. Searching the web, I found the re-mix community”

I read enough Digg and Boing Boing to know the Lonelygirl15 “brand” (geez, that says something about the level of market penetration doesn’t it?). Turns out that this lonelygirl 15 video uses a remix of “Brilliant Day” by my pal Lisa DeBenedictis.

How’s that for the power of the internet? Lisa, a mostly self produced singer/songwriter who composes out of her bedroom, licenses music under the Creative Commons and becomes one of the most remixed artists ever. In turn, one of those remixes falls into the middle of the largest YouTube meme series yet, which makes the LA times when it’s (maybe) revealed that Lonelygirl15 is a filmmaking project, and not actually a homeschooled girl with parent issues.