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Rebecca Black is infamous for her supposedly lame song with terrible lyrics, ‘Friday’.
Yes, its pretty bad. The lyrics don’t make sense and its very.. childish.
BUT.
What really amazes me is the amount of hatred thrown at her in the so-called more “social” world. Just because people can hide behind anonymous avatars and usernames, they verbally abuse this 13-year old who sang a bad song and created a YouTube video of it.
Seriously? YouTube is full of bad videos (among good ones). What makes hers the worst? What makes her deserve comments like “cut and die” or “kill yourself” or other profanity more than anyone else with a bad video out there?
Its a mob mentality. Just because a few people idiots people think it feels good to pick on her, they started. Then that became viral and more people joined in because it seemed like the “cool” thing to do. This reminds me of the post on Himesh Reshammiya I wrote long back (OMG – 4 years back!). Its the same thing. Just because there’s a new kid on the block that everyone seems to hate, lets all be cool and hate her too.
Boo!
Its ok to have opinions. Its ok if you don’t like her and think she should stop making more videos. Its ok to even say “this is the worst song I have heard in a long time”. But it can’t be okay to tell a 13-year old to go kill herself, or sleep with your dad, or whatever else seriously deranged people have been commenting on her video.
In a way, all this hatred turned out good for her. She apparently made good money through that single video that everyone hates. She is apparently going to team up with Justin Bieber, another popular teen singer that people love to hate, for her next song.
Well good for them. If they can take all this ridiculous hatred and turn it into an advantage, good.for.them!
Next time you are tempted to post a video to your Facebook status saying how ridiculous it sounds, ask yourself if you are doing it because you really feel that way about the video or because you think that’s the ‘popular’ thing to do. If its the latter, shame on you.
>Exactly the post I was going to write this evening. Won't anymore.I am a fan of neither, and don't think ever will be, but the social media mob mentality (where I am sure most people haven't even seen/heard most of these kids' music) is a huge put off. One of the flipsides of the otherwise amazing world of social media.
>Either it's not acceptable to tell anyone/any singer to go die, or it's okay to tell 13 year old kids as well. Judging based on age is probably just another kind of discrimination.
>Completely agree, Suhel. You are right Manki. Its got nothing to do with the age, just the mentality of people.