VIDEO: Sesame Street's New Inspirational Song

Starring the Muppet who made her first feel-good appearance in last year’s “I Love My Hair,” Sesame Street’s new “Change the World” video pairs the age-old “You can be whatever you want to be” message with a super-catchy tune, for yet another inspirational production that’s hard not to love. Suggested Reading Ben Crump Secures Staggering…

Starring the Muppet who made her first feel-good appearance in last year’s “I Love My Hair,” Sesame Street’s new “Change the World” video pairs the age-old “You can be whatever you want to be” message with a super-catchy tune, for yet another inspirational production that’s hard not to love.

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The song was penned by Sesame Street head writer Joey Mazzarino, who created the popular “Hair” song for his then-5-year-old daughter, Segi.

With an equally upbeat sound, “Change the World” aims to empower kids — and girls especially — to think about career options that make a difference (“Can I be a doctor? Oh, absolutely. I can be an M.D. and help the sick become healthy … Can I be the president? Yeah, I’m positive … if in the White House I lived, I’d make an awesome chief executive. I can be anything. You know that it’s true. I can be anything. Well, how ’bout you? You can be anything. Can you make this world a better world?”)

Warning: While the song is for children, even adults watching risk being inspired to pursue that dream job … or at least humming the chorus all day.

Read more at the Huffington Post.

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