--- title: Watch the 'Brooklyn Girls' Music Video Everybody Hates description: Brooklyn is officially no longer cool canonical: https://time.com/2995156/brooklyn-girls-music-video/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-16T21:48:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:11:34.391Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch the 'Brooklyn Girls' Music Video Everybody Hates og:description: Brooklyn is officially no longer cool og:url: https://time.com/2995156/brooklyn-girls-music-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the 'Brooklyn Girls' Music Video Everybody Hates twitter:description: Brooklyn is officially no longer cool twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch the "Brooklyn Girls" Music Video Everybody Hates  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jul 16, 2014 9:48 PM UTC  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jul 16, 2014 9:48 PM UTC Catey Shaw posted her “Brooklyn Girls” music video to YouTube just two days ago, and it’s already going viral — because it’s making people so upset. Anyone who has ever actually been to Brooklyn _must_ roll their eyes at the White Girl Problems-style lyrics: sure, rent is cheaper in Brooklyn than in Manhattan, but wearing combat boots and drinking PBR in Bushwick does not a “gritty” gal make. Vice [is calling Shaw](http://noisey.vice.com/blog/catey-shaw-brooklyn-girls-video) the “Rebecca Black of Brooklyn Gentrification.” Yikes. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2995156/brooklyn-girls-music-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2995156/brooklyn-girls-music-video/"},"headline":"Watch the \"Brooklyn Girls\" Music Video Everybody Hates","datePublished":"2014-07-16T21:48:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:11:34.391Z","description":"Breaking news: Brooklyn is officially no longer cool","url":"https://time.com/2995156/brooklyn-girls-music-video/","keywords":["Music","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2995156/brooklyn-girls-music-video/","name":"Watch the \"Brooklyn Girls\" Music Video Everybody Hates"}}]}] ```