WATCH: The New GoldieBlox “Princess Machine” Video, Without Beastie Boys “Girls” Music

In less than two weeks, the GoldieBlox “Princess Machine” video showing girls building a Rube Goldberg machine set to the “Girls” song by the Beastie Boys racked up nearly 9 million views. But after the Beastie Boys objected to their music being used, GoldieBlox dropped the song from the video. Will the same video, with more generic music, do as well?

Here’s the new video, spotted via Time:

[youtube width=”601″ height=”338″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIGyVa5Xftw[/youtube]

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