Rebecca Black Takes Viral Fame On Tour

03/15/2011 by

THIS IS HAPPENING:

rebecca black mall tour Rebecca Black Takes Viral Fame On Tour

Unless you are crawling out from underneath from Internet meme-less rock for the first time today, you’ve no doubt been subjected to this, the “official” music video for “Friday” by 13-year-old Rebecca Black. Or more accurately, a song “by” the shady-sounding Ark Music Factory, which is essentially the new Glamour Shots for the more well-to-do teen whose indulgent parents can fork over money to have a song and video and fake launch party whipped together for their precious wannabe famebelle, because teenage pop stardom works out so well for so many young women these days:

(Here’s the full low-down on the godawful thing from Know Your Meme.)

Yeah. It’s bad. Though personally I find some of the other tweenybop videos by Ark to be even worse, honestly. The one by 11-year-old CJ Fam makes me insanely uncomfortable, at least the 43 seconds I was able to tolerate it before clicking away. But the lyrics on this one! Instantly memetastic in every way. Gotta eat some cereal! Get to the bus stop! Which seat should I take?

Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday. Today is Friday, Friday. Tomorrow is Saturday. And Sunday comes…afterwards.

WORD, girlfriend. And now it’s all coming to a SHOPPING MALL NEAR YOU!!!!11!!!

On the one hand, Rebecca is a 13-year-old girl (who didn’t even write the damn thing) who has GOT to be aware of the Internet beating and mockery her little popstar dreamy dream project has endured over the past week, so good for her for apparently shaking it off and rolling with it. A lot of the coverage of “Friday” crosses a very mean, very cruel line and there’s something kind of admirable about Rebecca’s willingness to take advantage of the joke and put herself out there no matter what. I’d probably be at home crying. And lip-synching to the Original Cast Recording of Les Miserables in my mirror over and over again. I was a weird 13-year-old.

On the other hand, it’s a bummer that a 13-year-old (and every adult around her, I guess) has already completely bought into the idea that ANY fame and attention is GOOD. Even when…it really, really isn’t.

(Though this Bob Dylan cover will never stop being funny to me.)

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Amy Corbett Storch blogs at amalah.com. She is Team Zombie, though sometimes she is known to side with the Plants.


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  • Bobbi

    Rebecca could be the sister of Karen, from Step-by-Step!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Watson

  • http://fawnlikeadeer.blogspot.com Fawn Amber

    How is this the first I am seeing this??

    OMGBOBDYLAN.

    • http://www.twitter.com/Sekhmetnakt Sekhmetnakt

      Don’t feel bad, I’m 22 and should “know these kinds of things” (or so they say). And yea, I saw a few “Rebecca Black Friday” Tweets, but I had no idea what that meant (I thought maybe it was an upcoming movie or perfume). I guess I should have Googled it. Who knew? Not me!

  • Kel P.

    I had no idea that this person existed on the Internet. It’s so bad. So very, very, very, very bad.

    I think even Michael Scott would cringe over this.

  • DianaCLT

    Never heard of her. And refuse to click on anything. LaLaLaLa…I can’t and won’t hear this..LaLaLaLa.

  • http://www.threeringmom.wordpress.com Chelsie

    Damn, I love me some Robin Sparkles.

  • [mark]

    Amalah…stop it. Stop feeling sorry for her.

    It’s not “mean”. It’s life.
    This girl is NOT. TALENTED. She is NOT. SPECIAL.

    I used to dance around my bedroom to the Purple Rain soundtrack, playing fake-guitar on a badminton racket. I didn’t have a video camera. But even if I did…I wouldn’t put that shit on TV for the world to see. Y’know why? CAUSE IT WAS A GOOFY, NERDY, PRE-PUBESCENT WHITE KID DANCING AROUND LIKE A SPAZ TO PRINCE.

    My parents had the common sense to see that a kid with grandiose dreams of being a rockstar did not necessarily mean I had what it took to BE that rockstar. This poor girl’s parents do not share that pragmatism.

    This video? Is me dancing around my room to Prince. With a budget.

    It’s you singing Les Miz into your mirror. With a budget.

    It doesn’t belong on our computers. It belongs in this girl’s bedroom. And nowhere else. Like all (ok, most) other childhood fantasies. Why are we entertaining the idea that this video is real…entertainment?

    Was Andy Warhol a savant or what?

    • Jilliana

      This reminds me of something I heard Denis Leary say not that long ago:

      “It’s my job as a parent to nurture my kids dreams….unless those dreams are stupid.”

  • Andrea

    I’m not sure what’s sadder: that the lyrics to “Friday”, the work of an obvious erudite, were written with the intention of “reaching” today’s teens OR that I actually had to Google whether or not Robin Sparkles was a real “pop-star”. Amalah, I also felt a kinship to Cosette and Gavroche, as my hairbrush could attest, and I honestly believe that, if I were to be a teen growing up today, it would be the merciful thing to euthanize me. Because I would not make it in a world where it’s prudent to remind me, at 13, that the day after Saturday is Sunday. This is the Mini-Pops on Meth, and it needs to stop. Because it hurts my feelings.

  • http://www.rebecca-crawford.com Rebecca Crawford

    All I can think to say is…why must she pronounce it Fry-ee-day? Is that a Yankee thing? It’s stuck in my head now, and I’m going to say it that way at some point without meaning to, and the world will end.

  • http://twobusy.typepad.com TwoBusy

    Personally, I much prefer Robin Sparkles’ far moodier follow-up, “Sandcastles in the Sand.”