by now you have surely seen that "Friday" video, and probably six different remixes, and since its Friday, I'm sure you've read the song lyrics on your friends' facebook updates and tweets, too. Rebecca black is EVERYWHERE right now. whether her song sucks or is the best thing ever recorded is meaningless here, the fact of the matter is everyone knows who she is. (unless you are those dudes in the geico commercial...you know, the ones that live under a rock?)
i myself have bashed Rebecca Black. i think the song has the ability to make my ears bleed if listened to for long enough. i believe i made a statement last week along the lines of "instead of bombing Libya, why don't we just pump in Rebecca Black's 'friday' song at a high volume on repeat until they act right." but here is the thing, while I'm sitting at my computer desk bitching to whomever will listen, she is going to the bank. i know I've personally showed the video to several people with the intention, of course, of laughing at it, but laughing, crying, ripping our ears out, we are still giving her and ark music factory the attention that they set out to receive and I'm still poor.
do i think its the best idea to let a 13 year old girl put herself out there like that? not especially. i definitely wouldn't allow my child to become that vulnerable, but as she is not my child, that was obviously not my decision. i do know that it didn't work out well for girls like Brittney Spears and Christina Aguilera. but her parents gave ark music factory a bunch of money to let her live out her dream, and shes going to make a return on that cash.
its already been a week since the video went viral. by next week it'll be nothing more than a few Internet memes floating around. she will have had her 15 minutes of fame. all i can hope is that all of the negative attention doesn't affect her psyche too badly. 13 is hard enough without the entire world talking about how much they hate you.
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