Come on people! Are you serious?! Death threats for Rebecca Black and people telling her they wish she would kill herself. Are you kidding me? What is it with some people (or in this case apparently A LOT of people), the Anaheim Police Department is investigating numerous death threats. I see the problem as even bigger. If you recall, after Justin Bieber lost out on a Grammy award to Esperanza Spalding she also received death threats and frankly, I think that she is far more talented than Justin Bieber so I would have been disappointed had she lost!
Mob mentality is nothing new, it has been around since the dawn of time and I believe that that is what is driving the hatred of her. I mean her song Friday is no worse than anything else I hear on the radio and I would rather listen to her than Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga (haha, two slams on Gaga in my last two blog posts), or Rihanna any day. I mean, how much different is Rebecca Black than Selena Gomez or Demi Lovato or Miley Cirus. The only difference in my view is that they are heavily backed by Disney and Rebecca Black isn't. I will be honest, until my preteen daughters were playing the video on the computer I had never heard of Rebecca Black. To me she sounded like every other teen pop star on the radio. Then I started hearing that she was as famous for the amount of dislikes as she was for the likes. Here is what I don't get, everyone is talking about how much they dislike her yet she has over 1.6 million views. So people that have a pretty good idea that they won't like her still watch her. So just how stupid are people? OR are these people secret fans that because everyone else is saying how much they dislike her they "dislike" her too yet really like her (how is that for circular reasoning?).
As for me, I watched the video to see what the hype was, it was as I thought it would be, a teen queen trying to be a pop star. I don't care for the music much but for the most part I don't like many songs that are done by any of the Disney stars either. Over produced, over popularized, and far to simple and sappy for my tastes but since every generation has these types of artists I guess I am stuck with it. We as a society need to take a step back and understand that it is ok to not like something without being so incredibly demonstrative about it. We need to teach our children that it is ok to not like something or someone without saying that they hope that they die or get a disease or wish anorexia on that person. If it is an adult that is hurling these types of insults at this child, they need to be locked up because they simply have to be mentally unstable. There is no cause for any of the negative comments. If you don't like it don't watch it. You have to make a conscious effort to watch it. Stop watching it. If you do like it watch it. Enjoy it or not. Leave the kid alone though. Enough with the incredibly insulting and deflating insults. How many of us has done anything that 1.6 million people would watch. How many of us would get a chance to be on the Jay Leno show or meet record industry executives? Maybe it is just jealousy because you can't and this 14 year old girl has.
Here is a playlist for you where other preteen and teen pop stars that cashed in.
Michael Jackson - Ben
Debby Gibson - Only In My Dreams
Martika - Toy Soldiers
New Edition - Candy Girl
Tiffany - I Think Were Alone Now
Leif Garrett - I was Made For Dancing
Shaun Cassidy - Da Doo Ron Ron
Stacy Lattisaw - Love on a Two Way Street
New Kids on the Block - Hanging Tough
Hansen - mmm Bop
