All the Street Art Accessorized in “Brooklyn Girls” Video ID’d
July 16, 2014 | Aymann Ismail
According to Catey Shaw’s viral-baiting “Brooklyn Girls” video, Brooklyn girls wear “boots in the summer,” “wait for the L train” and “rule the island” of, presumably, Manhattan? They also “break the rules,” as signified by all the dancing that the girl from Virginia is doing in front of the numerous murals in most of the shots from this video. Click through the gallery above to see which street artists’ work was appropriated as the “rough and gritty” backdrops for this musical spectacle.
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