# Rebecca Black "Friday" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2011, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951 "2011-03-25T12:08:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/41 "2011-03-25T15:59:11Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Until yesterday I had never even heard of this (in the “today’s kids suck!” thread) > > How long has this been a “thing”? I think the video debuted somewhere around March 11-14. So not that long, really. And by next week it will be gone in favor of the next viral “thing.” ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/42 "2011-03-25T16:09:51Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > You guys are all wrong, this song is actually a hell of a lot [deeper](http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/6148/1300154451929.jpg) than people are giving it credit for. Brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/43 "2011-03-25T16:12:46Z")
> [@multimediac17](#): > > [Billboard](http://www.billboard.com/news/rebecca-black-s-friday-first-week-sales-1005084932.story#/news/rebecca-black-s-friday-first-week-sales-1005084932.story): > > “The 13-year-old is netting roughly $24,900 per week from track sales of her surprise hit song, according to our calculations.” > > They go further into how they came to that figure in the article. $24,900 per week?! :eek: You’re about to see me do some sick shit on youtube - you have been warned. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/44 "2011-03-25T16:20:47Z")
Anyone mind if I ask a mod to change the title of this thread? Maybe we can get some more discussion of Rebecca Black going from The Rest of the Internet 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/45 "2011-03-25T16:23:12Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > OK, I _keep doing that_. Why am I getting Rebecca and Vanessa mixed up? Fixed it. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/46 "2011-03-25T16:25:57Z")
She’s thirteen and I don’t get the hate either. Maybe we’re just burned out on teen pop stars. Fair enough. Because “Move Bitch Get out of the way” is just so brilliant, right? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/47 "2011-03-25T16:34:36Z")
[Rebecca Black’s “Friday” As Radical Text](http://www.theawl.com/2011/03/arms-so-freezy-rebecca-blacks-friday-as-radical-text) (along the lines of **RandMcnally** ’s link, but easier to access) [Rebecca Black: ‘I’m Being Cyberbullied’](http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-17/rebecca-black-friday-and-cyberbullying/#) from The Daily Beast, last week. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/48 "2011-03-25T16:59:17Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Anyone mind if I ask a mod to change the title of this thread? Maybe we can get some more discussion of Rebecca Black going from The Rest of the Internet 🙂 Darn, and I was secretly hoping she’d bow down to peer pressure and change her name to Vanessa! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/49 "2011-03-25T17:03:07Z")
How much “partyin’ partyin’” do sheltered 8th graders from Orange County really do on a Friday night? ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/50 "2011-03-25T17:06:32Z")
> [@Pyper](#): > > How much “partyin’ partyin’” do sheltered 8th graders from Orange County really do on a Friday night? Maybe they’re like the parties on Disney Channel, where they drink soda and awkwardly dance to whatever teen pop group Disney is sponsoring that month? I remember the movie where they have the house run by a computer had a bunch of the guys dancing to N\*Sync, which I just don’t see happening in real life ever with any group of dudes. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/51 "2011-03-25T17:08:53Z")
She was on Jay Leno and she said she wass going to donate the money she earned to Japan and to her school. In one sense that is admirable, but in another it feels like she is doing it because the internets have made her feel guilty for making money off of it. Not her fault. I can see giving some to charity if you want, but she should keep some for herself. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/52 "2011-03-25T17:15:33Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > She was on Jay Leno and she said she wass going to donate the money she earned to Japan and to her school. In one sense that is admirable, but in another it feels like she is doing it because the internets have made her feel guilty for making money off of it. Not her fault. I can see giving some to charity if you want, but she should keep some for herself. Which she’s doing, as I pointed out upthread. She’s going to be using some of the money to pay for her education. Hey, the song sucks, but if a bunch of internet idiots are going to pay money to listen to a horrible song, I can’t see how it’s her fault. I hope she makes enough money to finance her way through a good college. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/53 "2011-03-25T17:18:24Z")
I think she made the right choice sitting in the back. The results of her sitting on the hump in the front seat could have been disastrous. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/54 "2011-03-25T17:19:27Z")
Thinking about the whole phenomenon… true, I would rather cut my ears off with a rusty spoon than listen to that abominable, overproduced abortion of a song again. Buuuuuuut… I’ve seen lots and lots of terrible, autotuned, inane, brainbleachingly stupefying music being amazingly successful, thanks to the backing of big money studios. Is this song any worse than the last crap from the likes of Bieber, Keisha, Avril Lavigne, Hannah Montana and what have you? Well, yes, yes. It actually is worse than all that nonsense. But at least is not crap succeeding through a lot of hype, just a bunch of talentless hacks with a video camera and a mixing table, instead of a whole company of talentless hacks with billions to spare forcing crap into the minds of tasteless teenagers through marketing. And since crap will always have an audience, we’ve managed, thanks to the internet, to make it finally a democratic process. And that, that is a beautiful thing. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/55 "2011-03-25T17:19:48Z")
The song is crap. But - I really, really don’t like the amount of hatred that is being piled on this kid. Okay, her parents paid some money to have their kid live a dream - making her own song and music video. I’m sure they never really expected anyone other than her and her friends to ever see it, it was just supposed to be something nice for their daughter, who happens to be at the time in her life when girls’ self-esteem takes a big hit. As I said, the song is crap. But the insults I’ve seen to her, personally are way, WAY over the line. ---
**Author:** ![Walmarticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Walmarticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walmarticus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/56 "2011-03-25T17:33:38Z")
[mean sonofabitch] If you suck at something and do it in public, you’re gonna get mocked. She’s a much better meme than a musician. [/mean sob] ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/57 "2011-03-25T17:44:09Z")
Can I just say that I haven’t really seen any hatred piled on her. I mean, yeah, I’m sure there’s plenty of cruel comments on YouTube, but that’s what YT comments are for. You could have a beautiful singer with an amazing voice singing a great song, and people will still go on YouTube and crap on it. Most I’ve seen are people just mocking the actual video. Speaking of which, you gotta love Conan’s “Thursday”: [http://mashable.com/2011/03/24/conan-thursday/](http://mashable.com/2011/03/24/conan-thursday/) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/58 "2011-03-25T18:07:09Z")
> [@Walmarticus](#): > > [mean sonofabitch] If you suck at something and do it in public, you’re gonna get mocked. She’s a much better meme than a musician. [/mean sob] Yeah, I’ve certainly done my share of mocking in my day, and I completely agree with you. Mocking her for being a bad singer, for having a horrible song, for singing inane lyrics or being autotuned, yeah, I’ll go for all of those. The stuff that annoys me, though, is the mean mysogynistic “frat boy” style internet slagging. I get really tired of the inability of some guys to refrain from making completely rude and inappropriate sexually-related comments to any female they encounter on the internet. Okay, that’s my ranting. The song still sucks and she’s still a pretty bad singer. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/59 "2011-03-25T18:08:33Z")
I would be hesitant to use the word “hate” in describing the reaction to all of this. I haven’t seen it make anyone angry. In fact, most people just kind of laugh and are amazed at the awfulness of the song, and then proceed to reference it ironically. After seeing that Rebecca Black is really just a normal girl who did something for what she thought would be harmless fun, I feel bad for her as a person and have ceased directing any ridicule toward her. But I can still mock the song itself and the video’s terrible production values. I hope she uses her 15 minutes as best she can (all said, she’s handling it pretty well from what I can see.) ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/60 "2011-03-25T18:09:52Z")
[this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzfQwXEqYaI&feature=player_embedded) is my favorite cover version of Rebecca Black’s classic thus far. And it has a good message. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951.md?page=4)