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Move over Ozzy. An 8-year-old Australian girl has become an overnight
sensation for her minute-long thrash-worthy YouTube debut — and she’s
even impressing the hardcore pros.
Kristina Childs
posted a clip of her 8-year-old daughter Juliet, a genuine
head-banger-in-training, which has racked up 5.7 million views in less
than 48 hours.
“Within an hour of posting the song, I just started getting thousands
of emails,” Childs told the Daily News. “I was like what is all this?”
The video, using a track recorded for fun by family friend and record producer Rob Sharpe, was filmed at a local Brisbane park and meant just for family.
Once the requests started pouing in after it was posted, Sharpe
converted the track for sale on iTunes. (“We didn't want it to be
pirated, we just prefered if they could hear the real one,” says
Childs.)
T-shirts are also now available.
Juliet, though, is already a jaded rocker. She was impressed when the
number of views went past 300, more than the number of kids in her
school — but then went back to playing with her toys.
“If I'm guilty of anything, it's playing too much music for it,” says
Childs. “When she was a baby, she wouldn't go to sleep unless we would
play Marilyn Manson or Slipknot, so it's probably programmed somewhere in her brain.”
So how did she do?
The Daily News enlisted the help of some heavy-metal royalty to review Juliet’s debut.
Dave Davidson of Revocation:
The internet can be a very disturbing and frightening place but every
once in a while it can produce things that are downright heartwarming.
Clocking in at just under a minute, "My First Hardcore Song" by
8-year-old Juliet is completely adorable and totally BRUTAL! This
video's got it all, stuffed animals, real animals, trampolines and of
course hardcore moshing. I also really dug the sincerity of the lyrics,
Juliet isn't singing about political agendas or how tough she is, she
just loves her dog Robert and her fishes damn it! Get your two-step on!
Rick Armellino of This or The Apocalypse:
I don't care what anyone says, this girl is rocking more charisma and
going harder than about 98 percent of today's hardcore bands.
Tommy Victor of Prong:
Rebecca Black meets Harley Flanagan.
Great! Are they auditioning guitar players for a tour? Where and when?
My 7-year-old nephew wants to try out. Or maybe I should. A little bit
of botox, who knows? Maybe I can be a star!
Oderus Urungus of GWAR:
I found myself imagining the little girl being torn apart by a
Manticore. But I mean hell, it got like 8 million hits the second it
came out, so there must be something cool about it.
Sal Abruscato of A Pale Horse Named Death (Life of Agony)
I love it; it was so good and the little girl did an awesome job fronting the hardcore vocals.
I will look forward to hearing more from Juliet
Tony Foresta of Municipal Waste:
This is pretty funny I guess but mostly it raises a huge concern. What
would happen if this video gets even more popular with the kids and
things start getting way out of hand. Like 3 months from now she has
this huge hardcore crew of 7 year olds. You know, a bunch of little rug
rats with sleeves full of temporary tattoos and bad attitudes rolling up
to all the hardcore shows kicking everyone in the pits a--. Selling Now
and Laters in the bathroom, tagging Unicorns all over the place
starting beef with Madball and Agnostic Front. This could really spin
out of control. Be careful out there!!!!
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