Brooklyn Girls

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."