vocallife:

mitskiesque:

I cannot stress this enough the fact that Rebecca Black overcame the absolute inundation of internet harassment and bullying after she released a kind of bad song that she didn’t even want to make, because people love to hate teenage girls, and NOW just dropped a new single with a killer mv about being wlw is SUCH an iconic plot point of 2021

sorry wait i know i’m reblogging this twice and with a comment but this information changed my entire worldview on particularly teenage girls in music when i first found it out

which was at a thing called “music fridays” at my high school, where we’d spend 5-10 minutes at the beginning of every friday going over pop culture or even obscure music things

Friday came out and after like a month of resisting, my teacher just walked up to the board and wrote “is Friday a bad song?”

we concluded, after listening, dissecting, and discussing the song, that yes, it is. and then my teacher pulled up information about the company behind the whole thing.

“any of you could have sung this song. Rebecca Black did not write this. It was a gift. and her gift, from well-meaning parents trying to give a girl a taste of her dream, went viral.”

lots of “oh fuck"s went around the classroom. not out loud, bc the teacher would have given us Looks at that, but like.

he talked about how often young people are eviscerated for decisions that might not be their own. how often that happens particularly in the arts, and how that can destroy the essence of a person, because at that young, you ARE your art, even if you didn’t WRITE your art.

he talked about justin bieber, britney spears, hilary duff. it definitely went over that 5-10 minutes, but goddamn, it changed my mind about a LOT of things.