tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294499213897153104.post4070750777944962225..comments2024-03-27T09:00:32.195-05:00Comments on The Signal Watch: Rebecca Black's "Friday" (or: in which I discuss exploiting starry-eyed teens and their parents for fun and profit)The Leaguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04836241071795980225noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294499213897153104.post-88773870309044240032011-03-20T09:40:32.346-05:002011-03-20T09:40:32.346-05:00She is, indeed. She's also, apparently, 13 ye...She is, indeed. She's also, apparently, 13 years old. I was surprised that the acoustic version I included at the bottom demonstrated that she wasn't as bad as the auto-tuning would suggest (which is very, very bad).<br /><br />The point here is not to point out that she's talented, but to inform people: when I hear this over-produced auto-tuned pop stuff, this is what my ear hears whether you're a Top 40 sensation or a YouTube meme.<br /><br />And the blog isn't getting weirder, the world is. I'm just reporting on it.The Leaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04836241071795980225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294499213897153104.post-63719332591928416802011-03-19T20:16:30.958-05:002011-03-19T20:16:30.958-05:00Your blog has gotten weird. Or weirder.
And this ...Your blog has gotten weird. Or weirder.<br />And this girl is an extremely mediocre vocal talent.J.S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03903186469796595837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294499213897153104.post-36276978796995684872011-03-18T21:23:21.459-05:002011-03-18T21:23:21.459-05:00Well, the train of logic here is pretty obvious (a...Well, the train of logic here is pretty obvious (at least to me). The music industry is sort of a weird scam of a business, and this is a CHILD. Once you put those two things in perspective, the rest falls in place.The Leaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04836241071795980225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294499213897153104.post-60645743765787158832011-03-18T21:10:45.781-05:002011-03-18T21:10:45.781-05:00Good Magazine compares Black's lyrics to some ...Good Magazine compares Black's lyrics to some other famous pop-stars (http://www.good.is/post/thirteen-year-old-rebecca-black-s-lyrics-vs-katy-perry-s-lyrics/). and also has this tidbit<br /><br />"She also notes that, outside of singing 'Friday,' and dancing in the video, she didn't have any hand in creating the song. She just went to a casting call at Ark Music, a record production company, with dreams of becoming a pop star, and she got the part. She then had to choose between two songs: 'Friday' or another one that she felt didn't speak to her."<br /><br />And the article makes this very similar claim (WHO PLAGARIZED WHO?)<br /><br />"Calling 'Friday' disastrous is akin to The New York Review of Books tearing apart The Berenstein Bears. Sure, it doesn't meet your standards. It's not for you."rhptnoreply@blogger.com