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Rebecca Black: Tween Genius?
03-21-2011 by Katie Marzullo

It’s been
quite a week for Rebecca Black. You know, the one
where Friday comes after Thursday and before Saturday? And it might
only get better from here, thanks to an endorsement from none other
than Simon Cowell.
Hot off a viral
deluge focused on her personally-financed single and music video,
“Friday”, the aspiring 13-year-old singer has been
fending off haters left and right who have dubbed her snappy ditty
about the best day of the week as the “worst
ever.”
My question for
many of those Negative Nellies would be: Could you do better?
My guess:
probably not.
Say what you
will, but Rebecca Black has brass cajones, and she's swingin'em.
She is putting it all out there, and you know what? As long as
you’re paying attention and talking about it, it’s all
good. During a recent appearance on “Good Morning
America” (yeah, haters, when was the last time YOU were on
GMA??), she smiled charmingly as some of the comments about her
video were read to her. In response to one comment that her
“awful” song was stuck in the commenter’s head,
Rebecca kept it positive and said, “I think that’s an
accomplishment, you know? Even a person who doesn’t like it,
it’s gonna be stuck in their head!” True that. Rebecca
also humbly stated, “I don’t think I’m the worst
singer, but I don’t think I’m the best singer.”
She demonstrated this by singing the National Anthem a cappella,
and I have to say, she is pretty decent! I’m thinking
“Friday” doesn’t do her proper justice.
But, best or
worst, she’s got some serious back-up in her corner. Simon
Cowell was recently quoted as saying that he considered Miss Black
a “genius” and that “Anyone who can create this
much controversy within a week, I want to meet. I love people like
that.” Take that phone call, Rebecca!!!
Here's the
deal, you guys -- "Friday" is a song written by a tween for a
tween. It's perfectly age-appropriate and reflects the everyday
sentiments of a 13-year-old girl. So, why all the fuss? What should
she be singing about, getting drunk and hooking up with high school
guys? No thanks. It's a kid being a kid singing about kid things. I
wish I could go back to a simpler time when my biggest dilemma of
the day was deciding if I should sit in the front seat or the back
seat!
And it would be
easier to rag on Rebecca Black if she was a hopelessly self-unaware
dimwit, but the truth could not be more to the contrary. Anyone who
has seen the GMA interview or has been following herTwitter feed has to give the girl props for her good
sportsmanship. A lesser person would be crying themselves to sleep
every night into their Edward Cullen body pillow (or maybe that's
just me). But this is one shrewd ‘tween, folks. She is plenty
aware of her trending topic-worthy status right now, and she is
riding the wave along with everyone else, keeping a smile on her
face and her head held high. She will be back, and she knows
you’ll listen! Even if it’s on a Monday.
If you
haven’t seen it yet… where have you been?? Well,
anyway, check out “Friday” below. You know you’ll
be singing this into your hairbrush as you get ready to go out this
weekend…
30 million
views and counting don’t lie. Go on and get it,
girlfriend!
(Image via
Rebecca Black/YouTube)
- Katie
Marzullo, YH Staff Editor