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Rebecca Black Gives Her First Interview Since “Friday”-mania Began

by Robert Quigley | 3:56 pm, March 17th, 2011

Rebecca Black, the 13-year-old singer behind viral megahit “Friday,” has given her first interview since the song exploded in online popularity last week. Speaking to The Daily Beast, she cleared up a number of misconceptions about how the song came to be:

•Black did not write the lyrics herself: They were written by Ark Music Factory, the vanity record label for young musicians. “A few times, when I heard some of the lyrics, I was like, ‘That doesn’t make sense,’” [Black's mother Georgina] Kelly recalled. “Rebecca said, ‘I sang it as they wrote it, Mom.’ So I didn’t micromanage it.”

•Though she’s currently making bank off of “Friday” on iTunes, where it cracked the Top 100 singles chart, Black did not get paid by Ark Music to make the song: Rather, her mother paid Ark $2,000 for a package which included their “produc[ing] an accompanying video in a bid to make a splash on YouTube.”

•Black has not liked all of the Internet attention she has received so far, which has included mainstream publications asking if “Friday” was ‘the worst song of all time.’ “At times, it feels like I’m being cyberbullied,” she said.

Black is scheduled to appear on Good Morning America and On-Air With Ryan Seacrest in the near future to tell more of her story; she also says she plans to record an acoustic “Friday” “to showcase her vocal range in a non-Auto-Tune environment.”

Related: “Friday”-style song lyric generator.

(via The Daily Beast)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QKE4V34QFTXKZ47UL4XEAWH4L4 Abby

    rebecca blacks song friday sucks she sounds so horrible it hurts my ears and she wants to sing with bieber put that in your dreams sista cause that aint gonna happen i mean who gonna write a song about hurrying downstairs to eat a bowl of cerael waiting at the bus stop and deciding where to sit in a car just sit you freakin butt anywhere you dont have to sing some stupid song about that stuff really! you dream with bieber is NEVER EVER EVER EVER!! happening! im sorry but its the truth.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QKE4V34QFTXKZ47UL4XEAWH4L4 Abby

    when they said you sounded great the were freakin lyin!

  • Wdf

    No, Rebecca, “cyberbullying” is for people who don’t deserve it.

  • Emma

    if she paid for it then she should’ve known what she was getting into. don’t complain because people are making fun of a really stupid song. grow up.

  • Abki

    Cant say the video is bad.
    Bob dylans version of Friday is worser, but he is specialist on making bad things.
    Video is good in overall specialle if u know how much money they have to make it.

  • Drawbrent

    Hey, can I have a bargain bucket with extra fries and a pepsi please.

  • carolinaa

    I pee reading this! annnd I can’t stop laughing about her horrible song it just doesn’t make any sense” why did she really said like: “yesterday was thursday, today it is fridaaay, tomorrow is saturday, and sunday comes afterwards” YEAH. WE ALREADY KNOW.

  • Jakewesley98@hotmail.com

    they didn’t write the damn song it was originally written by tom waits then re sung by bob dylan!!!!!!!!


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