Brooklyn Girls

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**Brooklyn Girls** is a song by *Catey Shaw* that was released on July 14, 2014 with a music video and became a viral sensation. It is the second single song off of Catey's *The Brooklyn EP* and was highly critisized.

## Background

Catey said that she wrote *Brooklyn Girls* "to reach people like myself, someone living in Virginia wearing a 50s prom dress to 9th grade math class and people would make fun of me. Of course I thought that I was cool but I didn’t have anything letting me know that was actually me being cooler than everyone else. It’s like wait a minute, I was cool! Looking back it’s easy to say I’m glad I did that." Catey has fallen in love with Brooklyn, and that caused her to write a song about it. Her and Jay wanted to describe the one-of-a-kind Brooklyn girl. This "Brooklyn girl", as said by Catey in the teaser video, doesn't have to be from Brooklyn. A Brooklyn girl is a strong female.

## Critical Reception

*Brooklyn Girls* was critisized, mainly people who were born in Brooklyn. *Dan Ozzi* of *Noisey* was highly critical of the song, calling *Brooklyn Girls* "The Rebecca Black of Brooklyn gentrification," and saying that "Every fucking thing in this video is an ugly stereotype of the worst elements of Brooklyn, like a three minute and thirty second SNL spoof." *NY Mag* said that *Brooklyn Girls* is "the anthem nobody wanted" and later said that "*Brooklyn Girls* will be a huge hit among suburban teenage girls and people who have never been to Brooklyn."

## Lyrics

[Verse 1]

There’s a palace of bricks in

1-1-2-0-6

Where all the fly Brooklyn chicks reside

Combat boots in the summer

Subway train rolling under

See her on the lower east side

[Pre-Chorus 1]

In her walk there’s a fire (fire)

And she’s got her own style (Oh-oh-oh)

You’ll get lost in her mystery (mystery)

And tonight she owns the city

[Chorus]

Brooklyn girls

When they walk in they rule the world

(Woah-woah-oh-oh-oh)

Brooklyn girls

Tough and pretty, break the rules

(Woah-woah-oh-oh-oh)

Brooklyn girls, Brooklyn girls

(Woah-woah-oh-oh-oh)

Brooklyn girls, Brooklyn girls

(Woah-woah-oh-oh-oh)

[Verse 2]

Jay-Z bumps in her headphones

Drinks on top of the Brownstones

Get it on in the bathroom stall

Sunset girls acting prissy

Won’t get far in the city

We will freeze up your popsicle

[Pre-Chorus 2]

Cause we play rough and gritty

They all want to catch our kitty

And there’s no use denying

That tonight we run the island

[Chorus]

Brooklyn girls

When they walk in they rule the world

(Woah-woah-oh-oh-oh)

Brooklyn girls

Tough and pretty, break the rules

(Woah-woah-oh-oh-oh)

Brooklyn girls, Brooklyn girls

(Woah-woah-oh-oh-oh)

Brooklyn girls, Brooklyn girls

(Woah-woah-oh-oh-oh)

[Outro]

(Hey)

Wait for the L-train

(Woah-woah-oh-oh-oh)

(Hey)

 Bedford to Broadway

 (Woah-woah-oh-oh-oh)

 [Chorus]

 Brooklyn girls

 When they walk in they rule the world

 (Woah-woah-oh-oh-oh)

 Brooklyn girls

 Tough and pretty, break the rules

 (Woah-woah-oh-oh-oh)

 Brooklyn girls, Brooklyn girls

 (Woah-woah-oh-oh-oh)

 Brooklyn girls, Brooklyn girls

 (Woah-woah-oh-oh-oh)

## Videos

Catey Shaw - Brooklyn GirlsCATEY SHAW - BROOKLYN GIRLS - WE FOUND NEW MUSIC - KX 93.5 FM
## References

1. ↑ http://pancakesandwhiskey.com/2015/07/20/interview-catey-shaw/
2. ↑ http://ladygunn.com/music/catey-shaw
3. ↑ http://noisey.vice.com/blog/catey-shaw-brooklyn-girls-video
4. ↑ http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/07/brooklyn-girls-is-the-anthem-nobody-wanted.html