6.10.10 - 8:30AM
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Cole Stryker

'Advice Music' Singer Rachel Zylstra Plays a Meme Song for Urlesque

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Each week, Rachel Zylstra answers a question from her audience in the form of a song and posts the performance on YouTube. Some of our favorites include a diatribe against the language-diluting overuse of the word literally and a country-inflected discussion regarding the appropriate response to a sneeze.

We asked the New York-based singer-songwriter how she deals with internet overload. The bedroom troubadour responded with a meme-infused tune.

Here are the lyrics.

Guys, I dunno, it's a bust, it's a fold: If I try to avert aforementioned overload, I feel so left out when my friends are going crazy 'bout Laughing Baby Ninja Cat.

It's so easy getting caught in webs, like the enticing, Machiavellian, "Charliee, Charliee, come with us to Candy Mountain!" We junkies for the meme have watched so lovingly for the last decade and a half as our growing pet, the Internet, has shown whom we can love: Biebers and Boyles and now "ancient" Homestars. I dreamed a dream of one great dance performed completely on eight treadmills...

When I try to enjoy Chronic(what)cles of Narnia in my own home, still I'm distracted by other stuff – then, once again, Kanye interrupts: "Imma let you finish, RZ, hang on for a second..." But - too late, Kanye - I drink your milkshake. I drink it up! I've moved on posting status updates for awareness: "blue" no, "tan," no "black" – I just keep changing 'cuz I never guessed the choice would go so public in its naming. I feel funny!

Still, count me in for the rickrolling. Keep me here, always, overloading... this in modern life is our new Oregon Trail™. 'Lose' is to 'success' now what Win is to FAIL.