If you guys haven’t heard yet, YouTube has created another sensation. This time it’s a 13 year old from the middle of nowhere – Rebecca Black. Black is famous for her song “Friday,” and to be honest, it is one of the worst songs I have ever heard in my life. Gaining over 12 million views in less than a week, she is “the next Justin Bieber,” but really? Can she really be compared to the Biebs?
The YouTube sensation starts her song of with a comic sketch of herself and a calender, highlighting Friday. This then leads to the bizarre transition to eating cereal and being late for school even though she is just standing there while her family is “busy.” That’s not the best part yet folks; she then continues on her song about her journey at the bus stop waiting for a bus, but seeing her “friends.” Question: are her friends legally allowed to drive a car? After this scene, we continue with Black asking where she should sit in the car even though there is only one seat left. Later on in the song, we see her talk about her “friend” on the right, which makes me wonder: what about the girl on her left? Is she just there? But we’re not at the best part yet. We enter into another calender scene where she talks about how Thursday is yesterday, Friday is today, Saturday is tomorrow, and Sunday is afterwards… did we really need to be told that? Then enters a random rapper who looks 20 years older than the rest of Black’s friends. What is he doing there? Is he going to the party? Because if he is, something is seriously wrong. This young teenage sensation has caught the attention of the world, but is it in a good way? Let me know in the comments below, and check out her video here!
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With all these parodies, her undeserved fame is just escalating. Is this a ploy from the recording labels so we'll appreciate Bieber more? Songs these days have little meaning and are just there for clubbing purposes, parody-purposes or to be "catchy/addictive," but in my opinion people should just ignore these terrible songs instead of hype them up with resentment.
No matter what we do, they'll just keep getting richer! And since businesses just want money, they don't care if they keep selling us B-rated things. Since apparently the really good musicians don't make enough money. Anyway, that's my shpeel for the day!
After watching this video, I was outrighted appalled where the quality of music had gone.