Rebecca Black - Latest YouTube star

[Damien]

My understanding is that her parents paid for her to get the video done, rather than a label being behind her? It's bad but when I listened I didn't find it as bad as I was expecting given the dubious 'hype'.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Damien

My understanding is that her parents paid for her to get the video done, rather than a label being behind her? It's bad but when I listened I didn't find it as bad as I was expecting given the dubious 'hype'.

I think they did. Doesn't mean some Record company doesn't have it's hooks into her..

[martyh]

The worst song ever
The most irritating voice ever

(bet she's got more money than me though)

if she can earn a crust of the back of that for the next few years then good luck i say , we don't have to listen

[Jimmy-J]

Originally Posted by cookie_365

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmnSnCXd7TI pretty much sums it up for me

That was funny, but true!

[peanut]

The parody version is better and funnier. I can't link it as it's a bit rude.

[Maggy J]

Well I liked it..it's the perfect pop song.Instant hit but a throw away song that will be forgotten in a very short while and if you think this has crappy lyrics what about Sugar,Sugar or My Boy Lollypop.

Jeez and I thought I was the judgemental one..

[Kymmy]

Parody is good, but a bit too rude to post on here

[Eyeaz]

I can't wait until this rebecca black fad is all over with

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Zee

Although the video is the first video on YouTube to get more dislikes then Justin Beiber's "Baby" with over 1.7 million dislikes.

Some one told me she was like a female Justin Beiber, meh, that's like calling some one the gay Gok Wan...

[Zee]

She's received death threads via email and telephone now.
http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_story.a...ood&nid=100675

her song is also going to be played on a Tv program called "Glee" http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/315266...glee-publicity

[iFrankie]

I'm sure she'll be laughing all the way to the bank, £20k she earned from youtube!

[LondonRoad]

FFS, it's crap for sure but no worse than anything Miley Cyrus or the High School Music plukey youth pollute the airwaves with.

Unless the rules have changed I thought we all had the choice of what we clicked on youtube.... so it the link says "worst song ever"... and you click ..... How can anybody get so upset if the "music" isn't to their liking.

[Halcyon]

Did she really earn that?

I mean the track itself is not at all her own work and the company behind it probably have some sort of contract saying that they'l get some of the proffits if the song is published.

[iFrankie]

Rebecca Black's 'Friday' could be making less money for the singer than previously thought.

Forbes wrongly reported that Black's iTunes sales had hit the two million mark, suggesting that she could be earning over $1 million (£610,000) from download sales.

But Billboard has done a new estimate based on the real download figures and YouTube hit count.

The site has estimated that she has earned $24,900 (£15,274) in a week after selling "less than 40,000" downloads and bagging over 33 million YouTube views.

http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/55627

Its amazing how far a free youtube video can go.

[Paul M]

£15,000 ? Not bad for a weeks work.

Id settle for that, and even let you call the song "the worst ever".