Normally it happens on purpose. Wannabe popstars spend years learning to sing, to write, to dance; auditioning all the time, just hoping to catch the eye of some producer or other who can catapult them to stardom and make all the hard work pay off. Not so much for Ilinois-based Scotty Vanity – he wrote the lyrics to his first song, I wanna do your hair, while eating lucky charms and watching cartoons before sneaking into his parent’s home recording studio to record. Wanting to share it with his friends for a bit of fun, he cobbled together a YouTube video and posted on his Myspace. A few weeks later it was highlighted on the Myspace front page and since then, the infuriatingly simple yet catchy tune has been viewed more than 4.5 million times, a statistic that has even Scotty a bit shocked. “It was all a bit of a fluke, really… little did I know that in the first few weeks I’d get thousands of hits.“ So, another YouTube phenomenon? Well yes, but not entirely. A bit more impressive than that: As well as a live performance and plans for an album, one of Scotty’s songs has been chosen for the soundtrack of Burning Palms, a downright disturbing and darkly humourous indie film out later this year starring Shannen Doherty and Zoe Saldana. (It also has some hot man-on-man action, so we’ll be front of the queue for that one.)
