{"id":23981,"date":"2011-03-18T17:50:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T21:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/23981\/careful-for-rebecca-black-story\/"},"modified":"2011-03-18T17:50:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T21:50:20","slug":"careful-for-rebecca-black-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/23981\/careful-for-rebecca-black-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Careful What You Ask For: The Rebecca Black Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

So have you heard about the girl who has replaced Charlie Sheen<\/a> as the top Twitter trending sensation?\u00a0 The girl who is going to be the \u201cnext Justin Bieber?<\/a>\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Yes, it\u2019s Miss Rebecca Black. <\/strong> YouTube sensation whose silly little video \u201cFriday\u201d has received 18 million hits this week.\u00a0 She\u2019s been featured all over the internet and will be in this week\u2019s People magazine.\u00a0 Two weeks ago, no one had ever heard of Rebecca Black.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What piqued my interest was this story<\/a> about her reaction to the comments left by haters on her YouTube page.\u00a0 She cried.<\/strong> She got distraught.\u00a0 Look, I\u2019ve been around You Tube a long time and outside of Mos Eisley Spaceport, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainry. One could post a video about Mother Theresa saving kittens from being ritualistically eaten by NAZI lepers, and given enough views, someone would comment that Mother Theresa is a Papist cunt who should be sodomized with a crucifex.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 YouTube fame comes with a price, particularly for people like Rebecca (and me) who are clearly amateurs who happen to stumble upon something that goes viral.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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What was she expecting?\u00a0 Oh! Rebecca!\u00a0 You\u2019re so awesome! <\/strong><\/em> Well, there\u2019s plenty of that too!\u00a0 Most of you probably don\u2019t know what I am talking about, so please, take a moment to view Miss Black\u2019s video before we go any further.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I suppose what I would tell Miss Black would be this: don\u2019t cry.\u00a0 Enjoy your fifteen minutes of fame.\u00a0 It\u2019s probably the only fifteen minutes you\u2019re ever going to get.\u00a0 You are NOT the next Justin Bieber.\u00a0 Bieber can play like 12 different instruments, has been a musical prodigy since he was 4 and actually has some talent.\u00a0 Rebecca\u2019s parents paid $4000 for a vanity video that happened to go viral on YouTube.\u00a0 She isn\u2019t even really singing.\u00a0 It\u2019s all autotuned.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It just goes to show, be careful what you ask for.\u00a0 You just might get it.\u00a0 She (or her parents) didn\u2019t post this video on YouTube in hopes that it wouldn\u2019t get attention.\u00a0 It did.\u00a0 Now there are consequences.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In other ways, I sympathize with Miss Rebecca Black.\u00a0 I post stuff all the time that is of questionable quality and it gets 100 views, so it doesn\u2019t really matter.\u00a0 If it gets 1000, I\u2019m thrilled.\u00a0 At the same time, every little of comment that says something like \u201cYou suck. You really can\u2019t sing!\u201d from some anonymous person on YouTube who has never posted anything original of their own, well, it stings.\u00a0 A bit.\u00a0 I\u2019m 40 years old.\u00a0 I can handle it.\u00a0 Rebecca, she\u2019s all of 13 years old<\/strong>.\u00a0 Yeah, that kinda changes things.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What kind of “Partying” should 13 year olds with friends driving cars be doing?
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Perhaps the most poignant criticism of Rebecca Black comes from the thousands of truly talented people out there.\u00a0 I am friends with some of these people who have been highly critical of Rebecca these last couple weeks.\u00a0 Understandably too.\u00a0 I mean, here you work your ass off for years and years, actually HAVE musical talent and get just a modicum of attention.\u00a0\u00a0 Along comes a 14 year old girl with bad teeth, autotuning, a song she didn\u2019t even write, a music video that her parents paid for and a bit of a budget and SHE gets the whole world to tune in.\u00a0 Yeah, I can see how that might piss off the serious musician.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Well, to quote my Mom whenever I complained that something wasn\u2019t fair!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe world isn\u2019t fair.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So have you heard about the girl who has replaced Charlie Sheen as the top Twitter trending sensation?\u00a0 The girl who is going to be the \u201cnext Justin Bieber?\u201d Yes, it\u2019s Miss Rebecca Black. YouTube sensation whose silly little video \u201cFriday\u201d has received 18 million hits this week.\u00a0 She\u2019s been featured all over the internet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[229,772,81,2634],"class_list":["post-23981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-people","tag-expectations","tag-friday","tag-joko","tag-rebecca-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}