Why Rebecca Black, Why?

ROBOBRAIN:
The internet has been abuzz about a certain Rebecca Black and her music video known as 'Friday.'  The video quietly dropped in mid-February and was all of a sudden noticed this weekend, garnering views and most of all a lot of critics simply asking, "Why?"  This ear-grating music video features a bunch of prepubescent teens chirping about the end of the week, cereal and 'fun, fun, fun.' Is it a joke? Was it created intentionally bad to garner controversy? Nope. These music videos are the product of some creepy music producer who looks like a harlequin wax statue of Usher. We're just guessing that his 'thing' is reaching out to 13-year old girls for a chance to be part of their own pipe dream music career.  I guess he overlooked the fact that getting a cameo in a music video full of prepubescent girls isn't exactly the ideal way to get cred on the internet.

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ROBOGAL:
While watching this video, I can only assume that it was a result of a local junior high contest.  The school had some sort of contest, or drawing, or whatever, and the prize was a chance to make your own semi low-grade music video.  Rebecca is cute enough, but lacks charisma.  Also lacking is any sort of singing ability, as evidenced by the horrendous auto-tuning.*  Even the league of current mediocre pop stars and Disney Channel brats have a smidge of talent.  The "artist" aside, the song in itself is an annoying repetition of common sense.  Singing about getting picked up in a car already occupied by her friends: "Kickin' in the front seat, sittin' in the back seat. Gotta make my mind up. Which seat can I take?"  Well, missy, that is a toughy.  Then there's the Days of the Week Lesson: "Tomorrow is Saturday, and Sunday comes afterwards."  No shit?!

*Update: In all fairness, I wanted to update that I recently saw a clip of Rebecca singing naturally (you can see it here), and I must say, she's an actually a fairly good singer!  It's too bad that she was shittily auto-tuned on a horrible song.