Best use of a Boston Phoenix internship

We had no idea, when Boston University student Cat Hartwell first strolled into the Phoenix offices a couple years ago for an online-design internship, that we'd read about her in the New York Times and Spin someday -- for her cheeky skills rapping about female frontal wedgies, no less. Like a mall-rat Beastie Boy brazenly rhyming over the bouncy beats of Salt-N-Pepa's "Push It," Hartwell is now better known as the eldest trash-talker of bubblegum-snapping retro-sass trio Fannypack, who've become B-list celebs among New York City's hipoise for their oh-so-highbrow hit about labial peep shows, "Cameltoe."

During her semester-long stint at the Phoenix, Hartwell penned a smattering of online Web-site reviews for our now-defunct online-exclusive column "Site of the Week." But despite editing the film student's raw copy, we never knew that the budding DJ was capable of such lyrical whimsy as "Is your crotch hungry girl? / Cause it's eating your pants" and "The only lips I wanna see / Are the ones that sing." But actually, Hartwell didn't compose those lines, even though she sings them on Fannypack's debut full-length So Stylistic -- Fannypack are the manufactured goods of Svengali vinyl-scratchers Fancy and Matt Goias, an undernourished duo who cast the girl group and scribbled verses about such highbrow topics as sugar daddies, free celebrity swag, and "Brooklyn boys who wanna thug me."

No one at the Phoenix ever met Hartwell's parents, but we're sure they're very, very proud.

Fannypack, www.fannypack.org.