YouTube Stars!

Today I'll show you two singing videos from Ladies in Red outfits. Each has their own style, which is quite different from what you normally see on YouTube. If you like what I show you here, check out their other uploads!

But first, The News!

This week's Featured Video on our Top 100 and Top 200 Charts is a sweet home made performance video of Roxanne Andrighetti (Randrigh) singing her new original song, Find My Bliss. Roxy likes to use her music as an emotional outlet and her lyrics are often autobiographical. Here's the tags she chose, it will give you an idea about the song and its singer:

Randrigh Roxanne invisible meaninglessness find my blind live from the vancouver bedroom italian persian singer in canada unsigned original

Watch the Featured Video of Roxy singing about her feelings; click on it!

We have a NEW Featured Video every week on our YouTube Top 100 Chart. If you missed any of our Previously Featured Videos, you can still watch them here.

Check out our Top 100 and Top 200 Charts of the Most Subscribed YouTube Channels every week!


Pop and Jazz singer Steffi Ledbetter (singingfool14) is competing in Cree Ingles Idol Search Season 10. We love her voice and her style! Here is Steffi singing Rihanna's "Take a Bow." Also, enjoy Steffi singing a great jazzy version of "I Got Rhythm!"


Marina Orlova (HotForWords) is now a U.S. Citizen! You may have seen her recent segment about that on The Factor with Bill O'Reilly. Marina recently changed her video format to be less flashy, more serious and shorter. I like her stripped down style but not everyone does. Do you?


Now, watch the Ladies In Red!


SweetRose is a lovely lady who is loaded with style and class. She loves to sing and always has a song in her heart. Her voice is pleasant and soothing; we like to hear her sing! SweetRose also has some beautiful outfits, complete with matching hats, that add to the charm of her singing videos. Here is SweetRose singing Selena Gomez & The Scene's new hit, "Love You Like A Love Song" - guaranteed to make you smile!





Vicki Owens is an outgoing lady who loves to use lavish outfits and props to enhance her singing performances. She is always smiling and dancing around as she covers new hits and classics. Her voice is smooth and expressive; we like to hear her and watch her move! Vicki can often found at the Ark Music Factory website spreading good will with her encouraging messages on profile pages and the Ark Chat. We like her attitude! Here is Vicki singing a Parody Cover Song "Why Don't You Do Right" by Jessica Rabbit, which will also make you smile!

Labels: friskyvickisowens, hotforwords, ladies, randrigh, red, singingfool14, sweetrose1944

posted by KennyCrane at 8/04/2011 03:58:00 AM 0 Comments

Hello, lovers of YouTube videos! Today I will tell you about a fairly new YouTube channel which I predict will quickly rise in popularity. The channel is fresh4ever2000 and is owned by the team of Sandra and Marcel. Sandra makes sexy, funny high quality spoof videos using the persona of Zuzandra - a satirical play on her own name combined with Zuzana, the fitness and cooking star of the popular charliejames1975 channel. While Zuzana is cute, sexy and fit, Zuzandra is all that and more! She has a great sense of humor and a charming personality. I know this from her videos and also from a few emails and Skype chats.

Marcel is the cameraman, editor and occasional male supporting actor in Zuzandra's videos. He can be seen in "Hyper Sexy Serious Booty Workout Spoof" which is their most watched video and was previously featured on our Top 100 Chart. Marcel captures Sandra's beauty and bubbly personality and presents it in a professional and visually attractive manner. Look what he was able to put together in the multi-Sandra collage scene in the "The Subscribe Dance" video, below.

Sandra and Marcel are fans of YouTube. They take inspiration from other YouTube channels both big and small. If they like someone on YouTube, they will do their own form of tribute to that person by spoofing their videos! The Zuzandra character is based on Zuzana Light from BodyRock.TV and the charliejames1975 channel which is number 146 on this week's Top 200 Chart. Sandra likes Marina Orlova and made a video response to one of her HotForWords (number 88 this week) videos titled "Re: What I like to do in bed! i'm both a librocubicularist and a videocubiculularist" which is the Featured Video this Week on our Top 100 and Top 200 Charts. In the new "The Subscribe Dance" video, Sandra pays tribute to MysteryGuitarMan (number 6 this week) by dancing with many clones of herself to a song she found on the lesser known ZrKappa channel.

Sandra and Marcel want you to know that they are coming out with New Sexy Spoof Videos very soon! It takes them a while to make each video because they like to put out very high quality movies with sexy funny stories and awesome editing. I'm sure I'll be writing about this channel again in the future!


Here are 4 fun and sexy videos from Sandra / Zuzandra on the Fresh4ever2000 channel.



Another YouTube channel that Sandra loves is the BlendTec "Will It Blend? channel, so naturally Sandra and Marcel put together a funny and sexy spoof of their videos! Zuzandra tries to blend her new iPhone 4 but after a shattering accident, she resorts to trying to "bend" the phone. After working up a sweat from the physical exertion of trying to bend the iPhone 4, she decides to cool off by removing her white lab coat, revealing a cute purple and white bikini. YouTube deemed the video to be too sexy, so now you must be 18 or over to view this video on YouTube. But you can watch it here and judge for yourself if this video deserves to be flagged!





August 6th of this year is when it all began. Sandra and Marcel made their first sexy spoof in tribute to Zuzana. Zuzana does cooking videos as well as workout ones, so Zuzandra decided to show us how to make one of Zuzana's tasty and healthy snacks wearing the same sexy attire and with a few similar moaning sound effects! Sandra and her snack are both very good looking!





Here's another sexy cooking video! Zuzandra makes a healthy salad from lettuce, shrimp, rice and other healthy ingredients. Be sure to visit Zuzandra's Adventures, her website and blog, to see the recipe for this salad and to keep up with what she is up to. You can also follow her on Twitter, @Zuzandra.





We close with the latest effort from Sandra and Marcel which just came out last week. Sandra found an original song in a video by ZrKappa and couldn't get the catchy tune out of her head. So she contacted Alexandar and asked if she could remix his video, editing herself in dancing to the tune, and of course he was happy to let her do that! The resulting video features 18 video clips edited together as we see multiple Zuzandras dancing on a bridge. Marcel put in a lot of effort and did a great job editing this one! Watch, and SUBSCRIBE!!!

Labels: charliejames1975, fresh4ever2000, hotforwords, MysteryGuitarMan, parody, satire, spoof, Zuzandra

posted by KennyCrane at 11/22/2010 03:22:00 AM 1 Comments

YouTube continues to celebrate its 5 year anniversary with a new Birthday logo at the top of the page and a new FiveYear channel that has videos from some of the YouTube Stars of the last 5 years. We have been documenting YouTube right here for the last 4 years! We like the funny stuff and even some of the stupid stuff, but what we like the best is to watch interesting vloggers and entertaining musicians. So here are 4 videos; two vloggers and two singers.

But first, The News!


Thanks to everyone who regularly visits our YouTube Top 100 Weekly Chart! Now we are introducing our Top 200 Chart. You'll be able to see who fell off the bottom of the Top 100 and who is climbing their way up to soon debut on the Top 100. This week's Featured Video on the Top 100 Weekly Chart is a cover of Whitney Houston's classic "I Will Always Love You" by one of our favorite YouTube singers Christina Amato. Click her lovely pic at the left to watch her sing!

I recently received a package from YouTube's favorite teacher, HotForWords! Marina sent me a beautiful signed glossy publicity pic along with a copy of her excellent and educational book that describes word origins. Click the pic to the left to see a much bigger version of the signed glossy, and click the book on the right to order your copy!

Visit the HotForWords Bio page to read more about Marina, and check out the Subscriptions widget and Total Video Views widget we made for her!

Okay, now here are four great videos for you!


YouTube is 5 years old and in the early days, no one really knew what to make of it! What should one do with videos - what could one do? You could vlog or play music and just be yourself. OR, you could be someone else!

Before there was LonelyGirl15 and Little Loca, there was EmoKid21Ohio. Back in the Spring of 2006, "Matt" began to blog about his Emo life. Then he met EmoGirl21 and they began replying to each other's videos. If you don't know about the early history of YouTube, read this article and this post here.

Matt is back on YouTube after several years away. He is complaining about OlgaKay's parody of Emo people in his own satirical video. Watch it and try to understand what this really is - it really is brilliant! If you don't get it, you'll need to read the article and post.





Here's an interesting woman from the UK named Alexandra on the flashcrashbang channel who vlogs about what to vlog about! Got vlogger's block? Watch this video and you'll surely find a great topic for your next vlog.

Alex looks cool in this video! She wears Renetto style glasses, a pearl necklace with a tank top and sweater - I like her look! Watch now, and come back again next time you need a topic to vlog about!





This is a fun video from KristaHeatzuz, a talented singer who usually sings to her dad's guitar playing. But lately she is singing with Tyler Ward, another talented and popular YouTube musician. Watch as they sing this charming duet that looks like they are making it up as they go!





Our last video is from a singer with a beautiful voice who loves to smile! AndreaLovesMusic116 plays her guitar and sweetly sings an original song with Spanish lyrics. Andrea says " i love music more than anything! :) I love love love to sing, its one of the things about me that very few people know about me, cause i can only sing in the shower or when i'm all alone!" I'm glad she decided to share her music with us on YouTube!

Labels: AndreaLovesMusic116, anitsirhcmarie, Emo, EmoGirl21, EmoKid21Ohio, flashcrashbang, hotforwords, KristaHeartzuz

posted by KennyCrane at 5/17/2010 03:39:00 AM 0 Comments

Here are 4 NON-music videos that were just uploaded to YouTube this month, April 2010. I tend to mention a lot of music videos here, so this time I'll leave the music genre and show you a vlogger, an artist, an uncomfortable yet funny human and a non-supine feline.

But first, The News!

I like many kinds of music, including Goth. Sadly, this week we lost the frontman singer for the legendary Goth band, Type O Negatvie, Peter Steele. Read an MTV news story here, and then watch Black Number 1 by clicking the pic at the left. RIP Peter!


In happier music news, YouTube featured 4 music videos last week as part of their "Musicians Wanted" program and one was an original song by acoustickatie24. Katie posted the song last summer and it did okay, getting several thousand views. Thanks to being featured, it now has 1.2 Million views! Congrats, Katie! Click the pic to see this nice guitar ballad.


Our Welsh friend Angharad John, known here as Darahgna, is back after a long absence to tell us about her participation in a great event, the Race for Life, which raises money for Cancer research. Donate if you can; I did! Click the pic for details and see this video for an update on Angharad's fundraising. Also watch this video by KelseyOfficial about another cause called "A Day Without Shoes" - check it out too!

Thanks to everyone who regularly visits our YouTube Top 100 Weekly Chart! Now we expanded it into a Top 200 Chart. You'll be able to see who fell off the bottom of the Top 100 and who is climbing their way up to soon debut on the Top 100. Check it out; click the pic. You'll see that ShaneDawsonTV moved up to #3 while Smosh slipped to #4. Realannoyingorange is up 2 to #34. Daneboe is up 5 to #53. Hotforwords dropped 3 spots to #58 but she did hit 300 Million Total Video Views this week, congrats Marina! New on the chart this week is TheFineBros at #97 - and that sexy Minxy punk rock woman who speaks Japanese and wears a cat ears headband, MissHannahMinx at #193. Click her pic to watch "How To Make Minxy Choices" - its cute and funny!

Okay, now let's watch some NON-Music Videos!


Hayley G Hoover has always been one of the best vloggers on YouTube. Lately, Hayley has morphed from a quicky teen to a young lady aglow with love for her boyfriend and fellow YouTuber, Mike Lombardo ("Your soon-to-be favorite geeky piano rocker"). The high quality vlogs continue to flow almost as impressively as the words appealingly appear on Hayley's blog. If you watch Hayley, you're only getting half the insight and entertainment. You simply must also read her blog! This creative young lady is wonderful in front of the camera but she really shines behind a quill; I will emplore you one more time, read her blog, now! Or at least after you watch this satirical guide to How To Be a Great YouTuber!





You enjoy paintings with your eyes, yes? Generally true, but watch artist Alice from AlicesPalette and experience her psychedelic art with all your senses! The colors are groovy and remind me of a 60s light show. The textures of her thick brush strokes invite you to reach out and feel the paint, as thick and thin layers lie one upon another, or flow together and apart. Rich shades of color evoke tastes and fragrances of fresh fruit, the kind of mouth watering images used by produce marketers in the Spring. The orchestrated soundtrack Alice chose is fanciful and fits the visuals, especially in the middle as the pace becomes frantic. But being a huge 60s music fan, if I was the sound engineer on this project, I may have been inclined to use something like "Journey to the Center of the Mind" as backing track. But that's just me. Watch this wash of chromaticity, then see the other 5 videos by talented artist AlicesPalette.





Goofy, uncomfortable and hilarious! Exactly what one would expect from a motion picture conceived of, produced, directed and starring YouTubeStar DaxFlame. DaxFlame heads out "Wheast" to capture an outlaw with a partner when tragedy strikes. "Oh my Gosh! Killed him. I was just beginning to like you, partner!" But Dax struggles on, revealing that "Some men are measured by the size of their heart, others by size of their fist. I am of the latter group!" You crack me up, Mister Patrello!





I happen to like cats; I think they're cool. They really don't need you, unless they're hungry. Then they'll annoy the heck out of you in the middle of the night until you get up and add kibbles to their bowl. If they could stand upright like us humans, they might be able to use their front legs and fore paws to open the bag and pour out their own food. Check out this feline, I bet HE could do that!

Highest Rated Comment: fatherprime - some cats seem to think they are human. i bet he plays GTA also. 22 Thumbs UP.

Labels: AlicesPalette, cat, Darahgna, Daxflame, hayleyghoover, hotforwords, KelseyOfficial, MissHannahMinx, shanedawsontv

posted by KennyCrane at 4/19/2010 03:04:00 AM 0 Comments

YouTube is a great showcase for talented musicians! Some YouTubers have been signed by recording companies, like Esmée Denters (Tennman-Interscope) and Alyssa Bernal (Star Trak-Interscope). There are many other popular YT musicians like Mia Rose, Terra Naomi, Tay Zonday, Savannah Outen, Marié Digby, YsabellaBrave and Tiffany Jo Allen. We have mentioned most of these artists here on YouTubeStars and we are always bringing you the newest Future YouTubeStars!

We'll show you 5 cool music videos this time, and we'll alternate between the ladies and gents - ladies first of course!

But first, The News!

Our friend Marina - HotForWords - has a book out on Words and Their Meanings. Buy it for just $10 at Amazon.com. For just $15 you can get an autographed book! Visit HotForWords' website and check out the "My total video views (in real-time):" odometer widget that I created just for her. I can make you a custom one for your website too, email me!

Crystal Hope (a.k.a. Cara), who came out with the very cool techno dance tune, Frozen Heart, is back with her new single "Life." You can hear it, and Frozen Heart, on her MySpace page. Go and download "Life" here; it's a great pop song!

CelestialSam, frequent guest blogger here at YouTubeStars, is out with another cool musical lipsync masterpiece! I would show it here but she set it to "Embedding disabled by request" so here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eltwIkIbqSE. Sam acts with a stuffed Tiger as she sings a pretty French song; check it out, you'll love it!

The beautiful and talented singer Jennifer Newberry is out with a new video; its a cover of Beyonce's "Me Myself and I." In the description, Jennifer says "PLEASE VISIT MYSPACE TO HEAR FOUR NEW ORIGINAL SONGS FROM MY UPCOMING ALBUM "INSPIRATION FROM THE RAIN" http://www.myspace.com/jennifernewberry

Our Featured Video this week on our YouTube Top 100 Weekly Chart is Chloe Wilder's version of "I'm Yours." Chloe is young, she just turned 14. Check out her videos on her YouTube Channel; you'll like what you hear!

Now, on with the Show!

Allison Brustofski does a great cover of "Got Dynamite." With more guitar than Demi Lovato's original, Alli sings very strong and proves that she has a great Rock voice! If you like the original (and even if you don't), you will dig this video!



Here's something cool and totally different - Popcorn! Watch the fun video that goes with this original techno tune. See other videos by Enquvist, here.



Nowhere - I love this pleasing pop song from school buddies Keira and Ellie. According to their YouTube Channel, "VerleeRose is... Keira Verlee and Ellie Rose. We are two 15 year old singer/songwriters from Seattle, WA." Watch this music vid for their original song - it will make you smile!



Robot Band - This is a strong indie punk rock tune from Galt Aureus. They have a new album out, and you can read more about it at their website. You can also watch this video which announces the album.



My Jeans - Celeste Kellogg recently made this cool video in a video! It starts out with Celeste hanging out with her friends and talking about her 16th Birthday. She says she wants to perform in downtown Nashville, and then she does just that in the Music Video for this excellent Pop song! Watch it now; you will be impressed at Celeste's talent!

Labels: AllisonBrustofski, celestemusic5, Enquvist, hotforwords, sbgalt, VerleeRose

posted by KennyCrane at 10/05/2009 01:38:00 AM 1 Comments

There are many talented musicians on YouTube! Some have already made it in the music industry while others are still hoping for their big break. Today we'll have a look at 5 videos from YouTube musicians who have all the skills needed to have a successful career - they just need to be signed and managed by record comapany to become household names!

But first, the News! Our friend Marina, HotForWords, is about to hit 200 Million Total Video Views on YouTube! Congrats to our smart and sexy YouTubeStar buddy who proudly shows her Total Video Views count near the Top of her Website using our Total Video Views widget.

We would like to thank our newest user of our Total Video Views widget, MistoAndPizzi. They added the widget just today and it shows that they have nearly 13 Million Total Video Views, congrats to them! Add the Total Video Views widget to Your Website, Today!

Do you Twitter? It's a great way to keep in touch with friends, family and business contacts. You can also use it to announce your latest YouTube video! Here are three links to Twitter websites.

First, check out TweetJunction, a Social Community of Twitter Tweeters! Upload pics and videos, or create content like blogs, groups and events directly on the site - and tweet it with their unique Tweet It button! Join today, it's FREE!



Next, visit TwitterTwilight - A place to see what people are Tweeting about the Twilight series of Books and Movies! Find out the latest about Bella and Edward and the stars that play them in the movies - Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattenson. This is the place to visit for everything about Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series - Twitter Tweets, Video clips, News, and Links to buy the Books and DVDs. Check it out!

Finally, you may be skeptical about Twitter, wondering if you should bother creating a Twitter account. Please read this funny article by a Twitter skeptic and see if you agree or disagree.

Have you visited our Top 100 Weekly Chart this week? There was no movement in the Top 10 this week, but there were a few big movers. Go see who is moving up and down the chart!


And now, watch these videos:

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Our friend MaryAnne, YsabellaBrave, is back with a singing video! This popular YouTube musician has been suffering from Fibromyalgia (FMS) lately, see this video. "Beautiful" is a powerful original song that gets across the emotions that MaryAnne has been feeling lately. Watch and enjoy this strong and inspiring video!







Cordelia, Cordayrox, is so young but such an amazing singer! She has uploaded great covers of "I'm Yours", "Cry Me A River", and "This Is The Life". Cordelia also writes and performs original songs. Here is one she just released. Check it out, it's really good!







AllisonBrustofski is a talented young lady who has had a taste of fame. She is the voice of popular Nick Jr. character Piper O'Possum. In this video, she sits in her bathroom and sings a great version of the 1954 classic, "Sway." No music, just Allison sing a capella, check it out!







Alyssa Bernal, hchsknights08, is one of the most popular musicians on YouTube! She is Number 66 on the Top 100 Weekly Chart this week, with over 140 Thousand subscribers. Watch her fabulous cover of the Lady GaGa hit, "P-P-P-Poker Face" and you'll understand why she is a YouTubeStar!







SingingDork88 joins up with Jane Lui to perform a sweet duet cover of the classic song, "Happy Together"! If you're a big 60s rock fan like I am, visit GarageRockRadio.com for some obscure but kick butt 60s rock tunes! But first, watch this delightful music video!

Labels: AllisonBrustofski, cordayrox, hchsknights08, hotforwords, singingdork888, Ysabellabrave

posted by KennyCrane at 6/10/2009 04:08:00 PM 0 Comments

Here's 4 videos from 4 male YouTubeStars! We'll see a man give a German language lesson in a song. We'll watch Renetto explain his latest attempt at Satire. PeriUrban will present a comedy skit about VloggerHeads. Finally, we'll learn about inexpensive healthy foods from a video that portrays a woman showing her cocoanuts as it's icon image!

First, the News! Is Smosh about to lose the top spot on the YouTube Top 100 Chart? Both nigahiga and Fred are making a run at the number 1 position. Check the chart every Monday morning to see who's the Most Subscribed YouTuber!

Dozens of websites are now using the MyYTStats.com TotalVideoViews widget. Get one for YOUR website, now! HotForWords, VenetianPrincess, OlgaKay, OliviaThai and many others use the widget on their websites. YOU should, too!

In her latest video, KristaHeartzuz announces a contest! She needs you to rap for an upcoming video. Go watch and she'll explain it to you!

Now, on with the show!

Here's JC Van Luyn and his dog Kaiser on the jcvanluyn channel with a fun, yet educational video. Watch this one and learn some simple German phrases. He doesn't mention it, but you might like to know that "Ein Bier, Bitte" could come in handy at Oktoberfest. Like what you see and hear? Watch more excellent music videos on the jcvanluyn channel!




Renetto did a short series of Political Satire videos last week. Did you think he was serious when he said you would be selling your soul to the Devil if you voted for Obama? How about when he said the Democrats were happy about the hurricane heading to New Orleans during the Republican Convention? It was Satire, people! Many people didn't think so. Watch and let Renetto explain it all.




What the heck is VloggerHeads? Check out the unofficial blog and find out! Or just watch as co-founder PeriUrban tries to get you to visit, or maybe run away from, the new site for vloggers. Has someone been smoking something funny? Maybe he's been listening to too much 60's rock. These's something strange going on, watch and see!




Okay gentlemen, stop staring at the video icon and click the play button on this one. Maybe you'll learn something important! Joe, a nutritionist on the psychetruth channel is going to tell you about 10 inexpensive foods that are very healthy for you! Click the Play button and take the first step to a more fit you!

Labels: fred, hotforwords, jcvanlyun, KristaHeartzuz, nigahiga, olgakay, PeriUrban, psychetruth, renetto, smosh, VenetianPrincess

posted by KennyCrane at 9/14/2008 01:06:00 AM 2 Comments

Back in February, YouTuber JackDanyells announced a contest to help promote Art and Writing on YouTube. In his video about the contest, "Do you support the arts on YouTube?", Jack asks the question, "Is there a place for art and writing in the digital revolution?" So far, there have been 353 video responses! Finalists in the contest are to be announced on May 9th. Links to official rules of the contest are in the description of the video. There are two $500 prizes up for grabs!

Here at YouTubeStars, we consider the entire range of videos posted on YouTube as works of art. We have supported YouTubers and their videos for TWO years now! In this post, we'll have a look and listen to two poets reading a sample of their work. We'll also watch two unique music videos - one is a classic hymn set to a classic rock song, the other is a collaboration/duet between two YouTubers.

First, some News! There is another popular contest going on, and several YouTubers are contestants. The TotalPopStar contest is in the Final stages. The winner gets a Record Contract and Prizes worth over $150,000! We have written about three of the top six Finalists in the past: bexboop878, jsanchezfan, and kristaheartzuz. Go to TotalPopStar and vote, NOW!

Last month, our new friend Marina (HotForWords, #33 this week!) appeared on The O'Reilly Factor with Bill O'Reilly on Fox News. They talked about the origin of five words that Bill likes to use on his show. I was very happy to hear him mention how many Total Video Views Marina has received on YouTube! He got that data from our Total Video Views widget, which appears front and center on the www.HotForWords.com website. Excellent appearance, Marina! And thanks, Bill O'Reilly for indirectly promoting our Total Video Views widget! As people like YOU add our widgets to their websites, we are adding their Testimonials to our website. Go see who is using our widgets!

Last time, we mentioned comedian Fred from jklproduction (#23 this week). He spun off his Fred character to its own channel on May 1st. He already has over 4o Thousand subscribers and entered the Top 100 Chart at number 83! Watch his Mayday video. It's so stupid, it's funny!

Now, here are four videos for you!


Charming Nikki, babyporriidge, made this entry for JackDanyells' contest. It's an amazing poem with great visuals. Here is the poem:

dear inspiration,

we have not kissed for days.

you disappear with the ease of the ghosts i pretend not to believe in, & you slip through the loopholes of my jargon & thought patterns, as if your only obligation is to slide through space.

the days were kinder then, & you taught me to speak with the diction of the skies. you taught me to write about charisma like a broken record where everything was muted against the infinite repeat of charm & of charm & of charm & of charm.

sometimes, in your absence, you take my clarity. sometimes, it's my sanity. always, you take a piece of me with you.

i have looked for you under tea-cups & between the lines of someone else's pride. it would help if you were not so nameless & not so faceless.

there is a place, much like you, where inertia & gravity do not apply.
i only have open arms for you & like my skin & my soul are territories already marked with your name, there is a place like a smooth canvas that waits for your calligraphy.

there will be a place for us here.




Talented Stefani, livingpassion, has been sharing her excellent poetry with the YouTube community for over a year now. She has 143 videos on YT! Here is the poem she recites in this video:

I love you

I wrote you a poem,
Comparing my love
To the dangerously enticing
Face of the fiery sun...

I called you my songbird--
Lamenting your silence
And seeking your song...
Wishing I had clipped your wings.

When I wept for you,
I spoke of storms
Wreaking havoc on my heart
And freezing my very soul.

Like the prophet,
Seeking a still, small voice in an earthquake,
In my pedantic, poetic rambling
I think I forgot to say,
Simply...

I love you.




Inspiring VioletKitty411 recently uploaded this uplifting video. She sings "Amazing Grace" to the music of "House of the Rising Sun" which was a hit for "The Animals" in the '60s. Enjoy this music video and be sure to check out more videos on the VioletKitty411 channel!




Bridget Hermano teams up with Jennifer Newberry on this duet/collaboration video collage. Both ladies are beautiful and talented singers! You'll enjoy watching and listening to this one! Don't miss "No Air" towards the end - WOW!

Labels: art, babyporridge, bexboop878, bri3jet, contest, fred, hotforwords, JenniferNew21, jsanchezfan, KristaHeartzuz, livingpassion, poem, violetkitty411, widget

posted by KennyCrane at 5/07/2008 03:46:00 PM 3 Comments

Here's four interesting videos from four YouTube guys. We'll see two music videos - one is a cover of a classic Sinatra song and the other is an original song about YouTube Stars! Then we'll hear from two of the "wise men" of YouTube as they talk about violence and morality in the online age.

First, some news! Our new widgets site, www.MyYTStats.com, is doing very well! The beautiful and talented juggler/comedian of YouTube, OlgaKay, just added our widget to her Homepage and her Blog. Go see! And get the Total Video Views widget for YOUR website too!

Marina - HotForWords (my new friend, see this post) - was on The O'Reilly Factor with Bill O'Reilly last Monday night! They talked about the origin of five words that Bill likes to use on his show. I was very happy to hear him mention how many Total Video Views Marina has received on YouTube! He got that data from our Total Video Views widget, which appears front and center on the www.HotForWords.com website. Excellent appearance, Marina! And thanks, Bill O'Reilly for indirectly promoting our Total Video Views widget!

Did you notice that last week, our friend VenetianPrincess debuted at number 56 on the Top 100 Weekly Chart? WOW, that's amazing! Jodie went from just over 27 thousand subscribers on 4/6 to over 43 thousand on 4/13! (See her chart, here) She has been getting good press coverage in newspapers and on TV, and her latest parody vid about Hillary Clinton - Hillary, Be My Best Friend - has over 800 thousand views in its first 10 days. Congrats on your success, Jodie!

Here are two contests you should check out. The first is the Colgate Max Fresh Contest on MySpaceTV that Jennifer Newberry is in. Click here and vote for Jennifer! The second is the TotalPopStar contest with YouTube ladies Krista Nicole (KristaHeartzuz), Jessica Sanchez (JSanchezFan) and Rebecca Shearing (bexboop878) all in the Finals. Click here for more info!

Now, on with the show!


Smooth crooner Daniel Bonaire performs a great cover of a song originally done by Frank Sinatra. Daniel sings the song to his favorite female YouTubeStars. He includes pics of the ladies in his video. I'll be sure to mention some of them and their videos in future posts here on YouTubeStars! If you enjoy this song by Daniel, go watch his other music videos. He has 11 so far and they're all very good!




YouTube comedian nerimon has made a parody music video with his own lyrics sung to the "Rock Star" melody from Nickleback. He sings, I'll be a YouTubeStar!" Well, now he is an official YouTubeStar, he's in our blog. :) Check out this popular video with almost 40 thousand views in its first week and a half.




PeriUrban has replied to another video that was about the Florida teens who jumped one of their teen girl friends, on his urbanblog channel. His point is that every generation thinks the younger generation is behaving badly compared to how their own generation used to be. But that's not true, and we shouldn't look back - Peri believes we should act charitably while working to create a better future. Peri and friends are working on a new site where people can express themselves in a responsible way. Let's see what they come up with!




Tom, tlg847, responded to the same video that Peri responded to. His thought is that our perspective is limited, we only see certain things at certain times. We don't realize that the world is actually getting more civilized over time. Despite the shocking headlines we see everyday, we are actually living in the safest most civilized moment in history. He references a talk by the brilliant Harvard Evolutionary Psycologist Steven Pinker, watch that video too!

Labels: danielbonairemusic, hotforwords, nerimon, olgakay, PeriUrban, tlg847, urbanblog, VenetianPrincess, widget

posted by KennyCrane at 4/18/2008 02:05:00 PM 1 Comments

There is no underlying theme to this post. I am just going to show you four unrelated videos. I think you'll find them to be interesting and entertaining! Two involve singing and two contain vlogging. Three are by women and one is by a man. They are all worth watching; other than that, there is no connection between them at all.

First, some news. We have had a tremendous response to the new website, www.MyYTStats.com! Marina, HotForWords, is using our widget that shows how many Total Video Views her channel has received on both her Homepage and her Bio page. That is driving a lot of traffic to our site and now other people are downloading the code to put the widget on their websites. If you have a website that you use to promote your YouTube channel, you'll want to have this widget on YOUR site.

We are now working on widgets that you can offer to your fans. This widget will show a list of your most recent videos AND your most recent posts on your blog or website. If your fans put this widget on their websites, it will help to bring even more viewers to your videos and traffic to your websites. We'll announce this widget here and on MyYTStats.com. If you have a need for a custom widget for your website, email us with the details and we'll see what we can do for you!

Another pice of YouTube News: The mileymandy channel debuted this week at the Number 23 spot, the highest debut on the Top 100 Weekly Chart EVER! Miley Cyrus, of course, is Hannah Montana so its easy to understand the popularity of this new channel!


Here's a video from Panacea81, a woman known for her Makeup tutorials. Lauren is 26 and lives in the UK. I first noticed her when she hit the Top 100 Weekly Chart. She was #99 on 3/23 and then she jumped 12 spots to number 87 on 3/30. She's up 5 to #82 this week. Lauren talks about bullies in real life and on YouTube, in this video. She also gives some bio info about herself and why she makes her Makeup vids. Watch this and then check out some of her Makeup tutorials on her YouTube channel.




CreativeFisher is a singer with a hauntingly beautiful voice. Charlotte writes her own songs, then plays the music and sings them in her videos. She put up this song, Flickered, in another video that simply shows her playing and singing. This film is a stylish music video of the same tune. Enjoy the blue scenery and alluring clips of the attractive young lady we know as CreativeFisher.




Blunty3000 talks about what to do to change the world. He urges you to talk about the things that are on your mind. Don't be shy or wait for someone else to say what you are thinking. Speak, before the thought police outlaw our freedom of expression. Blunty asked for video responses and got 48 so far!




YouTube is about interaction. Here's an example of that. Young miss Cordayrox, just 14, sings along with a video made by DanJT87 of his cover of Rihanna's Umbrella. Dan sings on the original video and his brother plays acoustic guitar. Cordelia adds to the sound by harmonizing over the top of Dan's vocals and the result is very captivating! You'll also love Cordayrox Singing "Tattoo" by Jordin Sparks and if you want to know more about Cordelia, watch her Getting to Know YOU video.

Labels: blunty3000, cordayrox, CreativeFisher, cyrus, hannah, hotforwords, miley, montana, panacea81

posted by KennyCrane at 4/06/2008 11:05:00 PM 0 Comments

It's Halloween time again! I hope you get a chance to dress up and make believe you're somebody (or something) else, just for a day. It's fun! Here are four Halloween videos, for your spookalicious enjoyment.

Halloween

Made by: hotforwords
Rating: 4.46
Views: 374546
Comments: 535
Category: Entertainment

In this video, Marina, YouTube's sexy Philologist tells the story of how Halloween got it's start and what the origins of the word "Halloween". NEWSFLASH! hotforwords debuts this week on the Top 100 chart at number 96! Congrats, Marina!

Happy Halloween!!!

Made by: olgakay
Rating: 4.66
Views: 1234
Comments: 85
Category: Entertainment

Olga, YouTube's juggling Russian actress from LA, talks about Halloween parties in her attractive Pirate Halloween costume. If you want to see more of Olga, scroll back through the Previously Featured Videos at the Top 100 Weekly Chart and watch her at the beach in her Yellow bikini.

Santos doing the disco thing

Made by: markham18hockey
Rating: 5.00
Views: 17
Comments: 1
Category: Comedy

Footage from a Halloween party in the UK, chosen by us completely at ramdom. But it does look like a fun party!

Halloween Awakening

Made by: visiblemode
Rating: 4.56
Views: 860454
Comments: 3277
Category: Film & Animation

Here's a cool Halloween video for you! After a few seconds of fall scenery, we watch a stop-motion sequence of a pumpkin carving itself. Beware the slightly disturbing ending; poor pumpkin. :(

Labels: costume, Halloween, hotforwords, markam18hockey, olgakay, party, pumpkin, visiblemode

posted by KennyCrane at 10/29/2007 03:35:00 AM 0 Comments