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Internet phenomenon Rebecca Black has just given her first interview to The Daily Beast. Predictably, she complains about the people who make fun of her on the internet (hi Rebecca! I think you’re hilare and want to hang out!) and says she has aspirations toward legit stardom. There are some other gold nuggets, which I’ve highlighted here:
- “I didn’t write the song myself,” she says. Yeah, obviously. I mean, while the lyrics do sound like they were written by a 12-year-old, Ark Music Factory’s website specifically says they provide material for singers, so I don’t think anyone suspected Rebecca was a budding lyricist. Believe me, there are so many other things in that video she needs to defend besides the dumb lyrics.
- She had a choice of two songs – “Friday” and another song which was about “adult love.” Of course, we all know which one she chose. Black said that “Friday” was more relatable to her. I want to know exactly what variety of “adult” love the other song was about. Plushies, perhaps?
- After an open casting call, she was “chosen” to pay Ark $2,000 to record her song. This sounds like one of those poetry anthologies that advertises in the back of magazines, “chooses” your poem to be in the book, and then forces you to pay a bunch of money to buy a copy of said book. If an actual record label liked you enough to want you to record a song, they would be paying you.
- Although Black is making money off the song from iTunes downloads, she says she is going to donate some of the proceeds to Japan relief and school arts programs. Maybe she could start with her own school’s arts program.
- Verbatim: “Black’s plan going forward is to record an acoustic version of “Friday” to showcase her vocal range in a non-Auto-Tune environment.”
I get where you’re coming from Chelsea but understand where everyone else is coming from. There are tons of talented, wonderful, hardworking artist out there that for one reason or the other haven’t had the success they’d like or deserve. People at least twice her age that have devoted their lives to making beautiful music and capturing true deep emotion.
Now a random kid comes along with a song that is frankly garbage, a video that is just stupidly pointless and whose voice has been auto-tuned to death. That is not fair.
I’m not condoning some of the comments people are making (most of it is out of order) and i think a lot of people only hate her because it seems fashionable, but she’s rubbish. She really is and you know it. It’s not entirely her fault! Companies like Ark are trying to profit of teen culture without integrity or care for art, and that’s just as depressing, but she’s the face of that right now and you can’t blame people for picking on her. She chose to get into this, her parents allowed her to, so she’s just as much fair-game as Lady Gaga, Kanye West or even little miss Willow Smith.
Couldn’t have said it better myself, Chelsea. It’d be one thing if she were in her twenties, but she’s only a kid. It makes me sick over how much crap is going around about her.
Everyone needs to stop making fun of Rebecca. She’s 13, people, get a life. Yeah, the song sucked, and yeah, she didn’t exactly sound great in it, but jeez, she’s a young girl. How would you feel if articles were being written making fun of you, and calling you one of the worst singers in the country? Whether she’s making money off of it or not, it still has to suck to be picked on by most of the country. I’m in college for music education, and it disgusts me how many people are saying mean things about Rebecca and her voice. I heard her on Good Morning America, and she was okay. Not great, but okay, which is what should be expected of an untrained preteen girl. It’s comments like these that drive kids to hate music and have low self esteem…this whole business just disgusts me. Get a life, people.