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WHO IS REBECCA BLACK?
If you don't know the answer to this question, take my advice. Walk away.
Walk away right now and never think of this again. Close this page, forget you ever saw it, and never, ever, EVER google the phrase "Rebecca Black".
Still reading?
Well, you've been warned.
This is Rebecca Black
She is your typical precocious teenager from Anaheim Hills in California.
At 13 years old, she, like most 13-year-olds, wants to be famous. And thanks to her cash-rich, sense-poor parents, she now is. For all the wrong reasons.
Okay, so it could be worse. She hasn't pulled a Paris Hilton.
But her song Friday does make Paris look like a lyrical genius.
Here's the deal. Last Friday, Rebecca Black launched her single "Friday" on YouTube. In five days it has been viewed more than 7 million times.
At least three of those times were by me. Trying to figure out if it was a work amusing parody. Or if a 13-year-old just sounded the final death knell of the music industry.
Words cannot really describe how atrociously bad the song is.
The lyrics are so mind-bogglingly inane they make you despair for future generations.
Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday
Today is Friday, Friday
We, we, we so excited
We so excited
We gonna have a ball today
Tomorrow is Saturday
And Sunday comes afterwards
It hurts my soul just thinking about it.
But I don't blame Miss Black. Yes, she's an attention seeking little diva. But so are most 13-year-olds.
At 13, she can't be expected to carefully and thoughtfully think through the ramifications of her actions. She was having fun. She hasn't killed anyone.
So no, I don't blame her.
I do blame her parents.
What were they thinking??
Did they see the video before allowing it to be universally broadcast to the world? Do they have ears?
What parent would wish global humiliation on their child?
More than them, however, I blame ARK Music Factory. It claims to be an indie music label. It's not.
It's a music factory that takes rich teenagers' money and inserts their auto-tuned voices into a stock pop song template.
They take money to make fools out of people and laugh all the way to the bank.
Exploitation in the music industry is nothing new. Paying for it is.
Meanwhile, Rebecca Black's dream is slowly becoming a nightmare.
She will forever be known as the girl behind "the worst song ever".
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