Friday – I’m Not In Love
As wondrous as the digital revolution was, the Internet hasn’t half produced some insipid dross over the years.
From Rick-rolling to cats playing keyboards, YouTube has brought us some smash hits of Internet culture. Indeed, this is the system that has created Justin Bieber’s career from nothing, and now Rebecca Black is the latest in the parade of absolute tosh that the interwebs has churned out in the current few years.
Her song, if it can be so called, “Friday” has gone viral, and the Internet hate machine has got fully into gear. The song itself is some auto tuned rubbish not worth anyone’s time and yet has some how has 42 million views, Even the hideous, child exploiting, crap merchant gargoyle Simon Cowell has come out in support of Black saying in an interview with People magazine that 'I love her [and] the fact that she's gotten so much publicity. People are so upset about the song, but I think it's hysterical.'
The thing is though, even though the song is a poorly written pile of awfulness, Rebecca simply doesn’t deserve the abuse and death threats that cover the YouTube comments page. That’s tantamount the child abuse. Fact of the matter is she’s a 13-year-old girl who is a product of the 21st century music industry. Some self styled svengali type manager saw Justin Bieber’s career skyrocket and in typical fat-cat American style decided they wanted a piece of that big ol’ pie. This isn’t anything new. This kind of packaged manufactured approach of leeching off someone else’s success has been happening for decades (one’s thoughts turn to Andrew Loog Oldham and the Rolling Stones and Brian Epstein’s exploitation of other, less talented Liverpudlians in the 60’s).
And according to an article published on Billboard’s website, Black hasn’t even made that much money from those 42 million views. Stalling at number 42 on the ITunes sales chart, and including costs of her distribution, she stands to make about $15.000 to $20,000. Small change for so many views.
My point is that she is just another novelty one hit wonder who will fade away into obscurity. And although her song has become a talking point amongst hipsters and Internet tough guys, she isn’t responsible for the lyrics, which seem to be getting the most derision. She’s 13 years old for Christ sake! Everyone had a crappy music taste then. She obviously thought it was a good enough song to record, and some greedy Cooperate shill has attempted to cash in on it. If it wasn’t for the Internet, the public would’ve had no knowledge of her, and a 13 year old girl could go on living with out the need for anonymous idiots to threaten her with cyber, and real, violence.
Pictured: The Only Sane Reaction To This Whole Debacle.
I’ll repeat this; She’s a 13 year old product of a money hungry, capitalist system, who has recorded a song she thought was good. Lay off her people and grow up.
Related Links:
Daily Mail Article About Simon Cowell and Rebecca Black http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367627/Simon-Cowell-loves-Rebecca-Blacks-YouTube-hit-Friday.html
Billboard.com Article about Rebecca Black’s record sales
Rebecca Black – Friday music video
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