Rebecca Black It's Friday

[agzg]

They're playing this song on the morning news right now. They put up on the traffic map "This Song = Awful."

SO WHY ARE YOU PLAYING IT?!

[PiKA2001]

This girl is claiming the negative publicity her "single" is getting is akin to being cyber-bullied. Bless her heart.

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=551&sid=2311660

[knight_shadow]

She was on GMA today. I guess all the major new sources wanted to wait until today to play her song.

She said that by being stuck in everyone's heads, the song has done its job.

GAH

ETA: The interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NOHFy1Arf8

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

This girl is claiming the negative publicity her "single" is getting is akin to being cyber-bullied. Bless her heart.

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=551&sid=2311660

Actually, depending on how far people go, it can become cyberbullying. Regardless of how much people hate this song and want to shout it from the roof tops, she is a child. If people start cyberly attacking her and contacting her to tell her she sucks, that is bullying just as it would be if they picked on her at school.

@knight_shadow: She's right. The fact that people are talking about her song and the song is stuck in some people's heads (I refused to listen to the entire song because I wasn't going to do that to myself--I listened to the "Bob Dylan" version twice, though) means that she has some notoriety.

LOL. I can think of 2 other nontalented people who have received notoriety for either parody or serious songs over the years:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGkxcY7YFU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aktLRiWXfqg

[33girl]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Actually, depending on how far people go, it can become cyberbullying. Regardless of how much people hate this song and want to shout it from the roof tops, she is a child. If people start cyberly attacking her and contacting her to tell her she sucks, that is bullying just as it would be if they picked on her at school.

She's a child who chose to put herself out there for the public to make a decision on, one way or the other. She should have realized criticism can come with that. If she doesn't want people contacting her directly, she needs to make herself less accessible. You don't get to have it both ways.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by 33girl

She's a child who chose to put herself out there for the public to make a decision on, one way or the other. She should have realized criticism can come with that. If she doesn't want people contacting her directly, she needs to make herself less accessible. You don't get to have it both ways.

Criticism isn't the point. It's how far people go with the criticism either on the Internet or in person.

Still a child.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by 33girl

She's a child who chose to put herself out there for the public to make a decision on, one way or the other. She should have realized criticism can come with that. If she doesn't want people contacting her directly, she needs to make herself less accessible. You don't get to have it both ways.

Her parents made the ultimate decision, though.

Also, 4chan has published information about her school, her school's calendar, and were talking about doing some kind of Operation Black Friday today.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by agzg

Her parents made the ultimate decision, though.

Also, 4chan has published information about her school, her school's calendar, and were talking about doing some kind of Operation Black Friday today.

That's what I'm saying. How did they get that info? Apparently her parents didn't impress upon her to keep it private. In this day and age, you have to assume that when you become ANY sort of public figure, anything that people can access, they will. If you don't want to put up with that, don't be a public figure.

Live by the internet, die by the internet. Sorry if that sounds harsh but it's the truth.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by agzg

Also, 4chan has published information about her school, her school's calendar, and were talking about doing some kind of Operation Black Friday today.

And batshit crazy ensues.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by 33girl

That's what I'm saying. How did they get that info? Apparently her parents didn't impress upon her to keep it private. In this day and age, you have to assume that when you become ANY sort of public figure, anything that people can access, they will. If you don't want to put up with that, don't be a public figure.

Live by the internet, die by the internet. Sorry if that sounds harsh but it's the truth.

Anyway, this young lady is 13.

If people have an issue with her parents, take it to her parents. Leave this little girl alone. People, especially adults since I expect more from adults than from children, need to laugh at the song without turning everything into a batshit crazy spectacle.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

@knight_shadow: She's right. The fact that people are talking about her song and the song is stuck in some people's heads (I refused to listen to the entire song because I wasn't going to do that to myself--I listened to the "Bob Dylan" version twice, though) means that she has some notoriety.

I don't dispute that the song is putting her name out there, but it's out there for the wrong reasons. Unless her voice matures and she comes out with some legit, non-Ark Music Factory hits, she'll go down in history as a joke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGkxcY7YFU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aktLRiWXfqg

I hate everything you stand for LOL

Originally Posted by 33girl

If you don't want to put up with that, don't be a public figure.

I agree with this re: criticism, but...

Originally Posted by agzg

Also, 4chan has published information about her school, her school's calendar, and were talking about doing some kind of Operation Black Friday today.

...obviously this is going too far.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

I agree with this re: criticism, but...



...obviously this is going too far.

Yes it is. But if you're savvy enough to market yourself on the internet, you're also savvy enough to know that there are batshit psychos who do crap like that. Proceed accordingly.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Yes it is. But if you're savvy enough to market yourself on the internet, you're also savvy enough to know that there are batshit psychos who do crap like that. Proceed accordingly.

Right.

I think that, because of how quickly this song blew up, she and her parents weren't prepared for the privacy breaches, so having websites expose the information is not surprising (although it still shouldn't have been done).

I call BS on the "cyber-bullying" part, though. If you want to be in the limelight, you have to be able to take criticism.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by 33girl

That's what I'm saying. How did they get that info? Apparently her parents didn't impress upon her to keep it private. In this day and age, you have to assume that when you become ANY sort of public figure, anything that people can access, they will. If you don't want to put up with that, don't be a public figure.

Live by the internet, die by the internet. Sorry if that sounds harsh but it's the truth.

Actually, they got it from a kid who went* to school with her.

*kid who posted it no longer goes to school there.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by agzg

Actually, they got it from a kid who goes to school with her.

See my above post re batshit psychos.