…this is a much needed break from the political this-and-that going on around these Alexandrian parts:

Julia Nunes, for those of you who haven’t heard, is a kid who started putting her ukulele covers on YouTube during the past couple of years. I instantly fell in love with whatever it was she was doing — whether I liked the original music or not.

When I discovered Julia’s version of this Queen song, though, I was totally sold and enchanted. This girl seems wonderful, talented, adjusted, self-aware, intelligent, resourceful, everything I wish for my own daughter to be when she hits her college years. Here is the role model young girls have needed, I thought.

Apparently, being herself  – instead of a folded and molded version of the young women airbrushed all to hell on magazine covers — has paid off. Within a matter of months, Julia has managed to play for sold-out audiences in London as well as appearing on stage with the likes of musician Ben Folds. Oh, and, uh, she juggles her college obligations along with the rest of her awesomeness.

At last, a Queen cover that does Freddie Mercury justice. And on ukulele. Go, Julia. Woot woot.