Mango Music

A while back, one of the amazing and brilliant agents at Nancy Coffey Lit, Kathleen Ortiz, posted a video on her blog -- a friend of hers had written a song about Mango the Cat, who belongs to Kathleen's sister. It was funny and catchy and I have been earwormed by it at random intervals ever since. So when I finally met Kathleen at the NCTE party, I immediately burst out singing "My Name is Mango." As one does in these sorts of situations.

The amazing thing about this song is that Brittney, the girl who composed and performed it, accompanied by her trusty ukelele, wrote the entire thing in ten minutes, based on a random group of words Kathleen and her sister threw at her. So obviously Brittney is a genius, and quite talented.

And now she done something even more amazing: she's promised a NEW original song if the video gets 1234 (hee) views by the end of the weekend.

The world needs more Brittney songs, people. Go and watch it. I dare you not to sing along.