--- title: Three Ad: Girl and Cat Sing We Built This City description: It's a new ad for Three, a mobile phone company canonical: https://time.com/9097/watch-this-girl-and-her-kitten-sing-we-built-this-city/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-02-21T20:30:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:16.026Z og:title: Three Ad: Girl and Cat Sing We Built This City og:description: It's a new ad for Three, a mobile phone company og:url: https://time.com/9097/watch-this-girl-and-her-kitten-sing-we-built-this-city/ 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: Three Ad: Girl and Cat Sing We Built This City twitter:description: It's a new ad for Three, a mobile phone company twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Girl and Her Cat Sing "We Built This City"  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 21, 2014 8:30 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 21, 2014 8:30 PM UTC Three, the mobile phone company that produced the viral ad featuring a [moonwalking pony](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekr05T9Iaio), has released a new spot featuring a little girl and her cat singing Starship’s “We Built This City” while riding a bicycle around the neighborhood. The tagline: “We all need silly stuff.” Now you can compare the “singing” skills of this cat to the “singing” skills of the space kitten that [lip-synced](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/25/miley-cyrus-sings-with-space-kitten-at-amas/) and wept alongside Miley Cyrus at the AMAs. That said, we are still more partial to the moonwalking pony: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/9097/watch-this-girl-and-her-kitten-sing-we-built-this-city/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/9097/watch-this-girl-and-her-kitten-sing-we-built-this-city/"},"headline":"Watch This Girl and Her Cat Sing \"We Built This City\"","datePublished":"2014-02-21T20:30:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:16.026Z","description":"It's a new ad for Three, a mobile phone company","url":"https://time.com/9097/watch-this-girl-and-her-kitten-sing-we-built-this-city/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Advertising","Mobile","bicycle"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/9097/watch-this-girl-and-her-kitten-sing-we-built-this-city/","name":"Watch This Girl and Her Cat Sing \"We Built This City\""}}]}] ```