Miranda Sings at Birdland

Miranda Sings is an internet character created by California-based theatre student, Colleen Ballinger, and proliferated via YouTube.  The character is a satire of increasingly common YouTube videos featuring mediocre or even bad singers who film themselves singing as a form of self-promotion.  Miranda is supposedly from Tacoma, Washington, sings comically off-key and, when confronted by viewers who take the videos seriously, uses the catchphrase "Haters back off!"  The characterization includes facial tics, unusually active eyebrows and a crooked smile. 

She also wears lipstick drawn beyond all natural borders and often dances stiffly to the music she is performing.  Ms. Ballinger's character has enjoyed widespread popularity, particularly among musical theatre fans, and has recently appeared as Miranda Sings at live club and theatre venues in New York (The Minskoff Theatre, Jim Caruso’s Cast Party), Los Angeles, Australia and London (Ambassador Theatre).