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Westin Times Square Wants A Birthday Serenade From Your Child

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September 22, 2008 at 9:05 AM | 0 Comments

Grab your son, daughter, little cousin or even that neighbor kid who owes you a favor or two: The Westin Times Square is holding a YouTube contest and you're going to need assistance from the under-15 set in order to win the big prize.

To celebrate its sixth anniversary, the hotel is inviting children to make up an original birthday song and have someone videotaping the wee crooner belting it out. The winner gets a baller New Year's Eve party for the whole fam, including an overnight stay (on December 31st, obviously) in a newly-renovated one-bedroom suite. Plus:

A December 31, 2008 at Shula's Steak House, and all the makings for an in-room, ball-dropping party to ring in 2009 including cider and champagne (for kids and adults respectively), noise makers, hats and more.

So, basically you'd get to spend New Years Eve in Times Square without having to throw yourself into the freezing crowd full of drunk people and you'd get to pimp out your child (they have to be good for something, right? Kidding, kidding...)

But good luck: the only word we could think of that rhymed with "Westin" was "restin'" -- but it's Monday and we can't remember the last time we sang any fun variations on "Happy Birthday" without a few cocktails to stimulate the ol' creativity. So maybe the kiddos will be more successful with the lyrics.

Entries -- in the form of a 1:30 (max) YouTube video of a kid singing a birthday song for the hotel -- are due by October 31st. More details can be found here.

An example video can be found here -- and we have no comment.

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