Rebecca Black's 'Friday' is Harmless Bubblegum Pop, So Why All the Haters?

i think it's cuteand she's well covered, unlike most tweens with their butts and boobs hanging out and as long as it doesn't hit the radio, i'm fine. haters are just jealous becuz her parents has the $$$ to do this for her, my parents wouldn't have wasted $2000 like this or put me on the internet becuz of all the pervs, but if her parents can afford it and want to risk the pervs, then whatever! whoever sent death threats to her should seek mental help and the police should investigate. but then again, will these naysayers ever get prosecuted? no becuz we are in the land of the "free"! freedom of speech and "opinion". i just hope that they do when this girl is found dead somewhere!

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I think all the hate stems from mutliple sources. For one, her singing isn't very good. If she displayed any real vocal range and didn't utilize Autotune in an attempt to mask her lackluster singing skills, she wouldn't be getting slammed. Secondly, the lyrics are incredibly generic and uninteresting, it is a shock that people were actually paid to write the song for her, since it sounds exactly like the kind of song that a vacuous 13 year-old girl would write in her notebook during a boring day at school. "Partying partying, fun fun fun"? That's the best a paid team of songwriters could do? And third, the whole presentation is emblematic of everything that is wrong with the music industry in general. Here you have a young girl who is easy on the eyes with passable singing ability, so let's spend lots of money to get songwriters and a music video production crew - most of whom are much more talented than her - to attempt to make her look and sound better than she really is. (But since the people behind this particular song have only passable talent themselves, she doesn't come off looking or sound much better anyway.) And the true killer? She'll make millions of dollars from this while truly gifted singers out there get ignored. If she were talented and the song was actually good, the millions made in iTunes sales and YouTube hits would be justified, but this song feels like the ultimate con - it's terrible but it makes lots of money anyway.

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it isnt her; I'm sure she's a cool girl; people are just ticked that music is nothing like what it used to be; its in its worst phaze since pre-1955; they've focused on her to vent they're frustrations; which isnt fair to her.

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I overheard my twin boys listening to this recently. I admit I haven't watched it yet. Maybe this girl will earn and save some college money Shame on the critics. Parents can indulge their children as they choose, no different than spending for a camp or dance class.

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It's sad to hear of so many people targetting a 13 year old with so much hate. While I understand how this seemed like a fun yet pricey way to do karaoke, why would parents put a 13 year old out there on the web like this? Just to have her (or them) be famous? While it's ok to get some silliness out of her system now, she should focus on her studies (especially with her less than exceptional singing), think about the future, and meet her potential!

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Take a look at The Car Seat Lady's Blog (can't link out to it, so you'll have to Google). Here's what she says initially about the video "Black Friday":

"Watched this video - Black Friday - that's become an internet sensation and all I could think was how awful it was that 68 million people have watched a video glorifying behavior that gets kids killed. Rebecca Black and 4 other teenagers pile into a convertible and sing and dance about partying it up - NO ONE is wearing a seat belt. Car crashes are the NUMBER ONE cause of death for teenagers in the US - but it doesn't have to be this way. Seat belts, extended supervised driving time, driving without peers in the car, and graduated licenses save lives!"

The Car Seat Lady goes on to say, "Tyler Presnell knows all too well what its like to be the cool kid riding in the back seat of a friend's car without a seat belt; his story doesn't have a happy ending. When the 16-year-old driver of the car Tyler was riding tried to show off for his friends, the car ended up wrapped around a telephone pole. Tyler suffered a traumatic brain injury and injured every organ in his abdomen as shards of his pelvic bone ripped through his abdomen. Twenty one surgeries and 11 years later, Tyler has relearned how to walk, how to feed himself, how to talk, and how to remember - but he will never be the same."

She includes a video from Tyler.

As parents, we can use all of these pop-culture moments at teachable moments for our kids.

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