If you haven't heard about the sensationalized singer and music video, click below for Rebecca Black's "Friday." It's being called the worst music video in history.
Hundreds of parodies have been made of the video, and regular news and radio banter have been occupied with the video and its star. I'll admit I considered myself a victim of 'the Black plague' (a moniker for those who found the video [to put it lightly] difficult to watch and listen to). This changed when I became aware that the song itself wasn't even written by Black. And she's not the world's most awful singer. But people did not stop berating the video even after finding this out. YouTube commenters told her she should kill herself. One radio DJ harped for five minutes about how the girls in the video were ugly and had 'hideous moles on their faces.' Does that have anything to do with the quality of the video? Hardly. Remember, the star of the video is 13 and the peers around her are her real-life friends. They hardly deserve our criticism. If Black's parents had the $2k to blow on the making of the video and the auto-tuning of the track, so be it.
We can whine all we want, but bringing the girls' appearances into the mix doesn't solve or bolster any argument. Such petty exchanges have nothing to do with the 'worth' of the song, but everything to do with feminism. If the singer had been a boy and he had been more than made fun of (one need only to look so far as any Justin Beiber video), I'd be hopping up on my soap box then, too. It's interesting, though, that the death threats, suicide promptings, etc. seem to follow female music stars more.
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