‘Cut and Die’: Is Wannabe Teen Pop-Star Rebecca Black the Most Hated Sensation Since Sarah Palin?
- Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:50pm by
Emily Esfahani Smith
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Did pop-music end with Rebecca Black? Is Rebecca Black, 13, the worst singer in the world? Should she “cut and die” as one person has urged her to do?
Who is this young girl, you ask? Black is the internet sensation in the music video “Friday” which debuted on YouTube last month and has garnered over 17 million views since. “Friday” is now a top-40 hit on iTunes and Black has even surpassed Justin Bieber, Canada’s falsetto pop-boy, as a hot topic of discussion on Twitter.
But Black’s meteoric rise to fame happened for all the wrong reasons–or just one wrong reason: people hate her dang song, which is an innocent-enough autotuned hit about partying on the weekend and hanging out with your friends.
Sure, Black is no Britney Spears–she’s not even a Miley Cyrus–but her song is catchy enough, and arguably no worse than some of the other pop-garbage out there. So why does this 8th grader inspire such vitriol?
Rolling Stone has called Friday an “unintentional parody of modern pop.“ Time has said that the song is a ”whole new level of bad.” Yahoo asked “Is YouTube sensation Rebecca Black’s ‘Friday’ the worst song ever?” And Slate called the song “disastrous.”
Meanwhile, regular folks have taken aim at the young girl herself. In the comments section of a Comedy Central post about Black, she was called a Stepford Wife, a bitch, and a whore.
Though Black has taken heat for “Friday,” she didn’t even write the song:
Acing a casting-call audition, Black was invited to record one of two songs label heads had written for her. And, as part of a $2,000 package her mother paid for, they offered to produce an accompanying video in a bid to make a splash on YouTube. The song she picked: “Friday.”
“I didn’t write it at all,” Black said, clearing up a major misconception. “The other song was about adult love–I haven’t experienced that yet. ‘Friday’ is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in that song.”
Reflecting on how people have reacted to the song, Black told The Daily Beast, ”At times, it feels like I’m being cyberbullied,”
In an interview with Good Morning America today, Black elaborated. She said today that among the worst comments she has read online about herself are, “I hope you cut yourself and I hope you get an eating disorder so you’ll look pretty, and I hope you go cut and die.”
And the bullying does not end in dark world of online comments. A bizarre social networking website called 4chan is organizing something called “Operation Black Friday” to cruelly ambush Black in real life:
here are some simple orders. 12pm est, start calling the school with all of the numbers and tardy bullshit, fax as many nudes of ANYTHING (girl blowing horse for example) and put rebecca’s name on it. at 1pm est DDoS Ark Music Factory. at 3pm est, start requesting her (sorry excuse for) music on the radio
According to Gawker, the 4channers are trying to track down Black’s home address:
A former student at Black’s Orange County middle school posted the contact information for the school tonight, along with a copy of its calendar and a map of the campus. Others have started “doxing” Black—that is, digging up her and her parents’ contact and social networking information. They’ve already come up with a half-dozen potential home addresses.
That’s just creepy.
For something more wholesome, check out these two spoofs of “Friday”, via Hot Air.
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Tnredneck
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:33pmIt’s amazing how the blaze removes some post while letting other post like chips1 on. Some one needs to loose their job over that. My daughters read that comment by chips. Way to go blaze. Allowing crap like that on. An apology is in order.
Report Post »David Foxfire
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:33pmEPIIIIIIIIIIIC!
I wish Miss Black well, but please understand Slayer’s more my speed. I hope you have a great career.
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:32pmOf course he’s not because first of all, if he’s a liberal internet troll, she, he or IT are likely so far from being a man he-she-IY probably makes Bendover Barney look like freaking John Wayne with apologies to the Duke, his fans, and family even being compared to an lefty internet troll. The true bottom feeders of today’s American society and dialogue..
Report Post »TRUTH-SEEKER76
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:31pmWhy is this 4chan website still allowed. They are threatening a 13 year old child. I thought these kind of sites were removed from the internet altogether.
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:42pmThat’s sadly what liberals today use for an excuse as free speech Seeker.
That is right up until someone threatens to bash their empty heads around like a grapefruit, then they whine for civility and so on. And while the grapefruit has useful innards, the liberal Neanderthal species‘ skull usually contains very little if any ’operable’ gray brain matter.
Especially after (in most cases) a lifetime of drug, sexual and alcohol abuse since about 4th grade if even schooled in the first place, before embarking on their sad, empty, lonely pathetic existences hating just about everyone and everything they encounter throughout their lives.
Report Post »Tnredneck
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:45pmThe blaze is following in the footsteps of 4 chan. All this girl needs is a well written song. Tha song is bad. Can’t blame her for that though cause the writer and producer should know better. A really bad song can be a career killer. Hopfully she will make enough money off this to get the songs she needs. As far as the blaze is concerned I think liberalism is starting to show. Must be the huff po hire
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:28pm“Sure, Black is no Britney Spears–she’s not even a Miley Cyrus–but her song is catchy enough, and arguably no worse than some of the other pop-garbage out there. So why does this 8th grader inspire such vitriol?”
You know the answer to that, cmon…….Mental Illness. It’s called liberalism.
Report Post »William J
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:39pmI fully well remember -Rock Around the Clock Tonight- Bill Haley and the Comets.
Report Post »What a stir that caused and perhaps more was the reaction girls had to Elvis Presley,
- Heartbreak Hotel.- and – Blue Suede Shoes. My 89 year old partner never stopped loving him. Some people who can’t have fun by having fun themselves
get a buzz out of lectures, lockdowns and laws.
Tnredneck
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:21pmChips you are ignorant. With a comment like that you proved how worthless you are. Dum azz is more like it. Cowards talk that crap. You man enough to apologize????
Report Post »David Foxfire
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:09pmWelcome to my world, Rebecca Black. And if you want to know what I’m talking about, google “David Gonterman.” I’ve got the same problems myself.
And I’ve seen the video. It seems like a nice garage effort. I think the main reason why people are dissing her so because she isn’t being preened and pampered by the big media, being presented as a harlet like Britiany Spears or Miley Cyrus. It looks like a sweet and good girl using a personal computer to show her talent on the internet, and she ends up getting the usual mixed response. Some people would like her, others wouldn’t care about it, and then there are the “2G1C” group, those who consider her to be the most offensive person in the world since Hitler, but consider the “Two Girls One Cup” shock porn video to be high-class performance art worthy of an oscar, not to mention an NEA grant.
It’s unfortunate that the “2G1C” crowd is getting all the free press here. I do hope you get over this, and you will, and you’ll find an excellent career in the music business. I’ll be seeing you in the “X Factor.”
Report Post »Suprise...a conservative in CA
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 9:59amI think you hit the nail on the head. I think it is because no big agency is making any money from it or getting the recognition. I would also add that she became a hit even though she did not plan on it.
Does anybody else remember a couple years back there were two twin girls in Europe made a song that had only simple wording repeated over and over again but it became a hit. All the big shots came out and criticized that it wasn’t music and that they were putting the music industry to shame.
It sad to think things like this can get so bad.
Report Post »happygills
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:01pmThis song needs a warning label: “BEWARE – This song may become stuck in your head. Listen at your own risk.”
It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday
Report Post »Everybody’s looking forward to the weekend
HillKid8
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:58pmOmg luv it!
Report Post »Slayer
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:47pmKids should listen to more Slayer. They’d be happier.
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:47pmThis is what Progressives do… destroy anything that they cannot control or bend to their will.
Report Post »Cherynn
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:46pmOuch, that hurt. Keep trying hon, you’ll get there someday!!!
Report Post »chalybravo
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:39pmI don’t get why anyone is upset with this girl… Yea, the song is kind of mind numbing, but who cares? It is a cute video and she isn’t doing anything provocative, so why does she deserve anything negative? People these days just have no integrity… freaking buffoons!
Report Post »henryKnox
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:36pmThis seems to be a good teen/pre-teen song. We used to call these types of songs ‘bubble gum’ when I was a kid. We made fun of the music but we didn’t wish harm to the performer. Progressivism shows a definite path and it is toward dependence, uncivil (ie. Wisconsin) and anti-Freedom. Progressives are very intolerant of anything outside of their narrow view of the world.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:53pmOMG!!!!!! A female Elvis.. It’s about time…
Report Post »ClockKing
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:34pmBeck is right. Evil is on the march. If you don’t like her song, don’t listen. Why the vitriol? People are beginning to hate beauty and simplicity and want everything to be ugly and edgy, like Lady Gaga. We need to push back HARD against this.
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:34pmI am totally and completly confused here. For some reason the mindless left wants to destroy this girl and a disgusting peice of totally useless filth like Cong Anthony Weinerhead is some sort of a hero??? The world has gone well and truly mad and I’m getting off…BEAM ME UP SCOTTY THIS PLACE IS F*&^(%$ NUTS!!!
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:20pmDoes she make any money from this video??
What about this enrages people ??
Report Post »DAGNY
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:20pmThe internet is the worst thing to happen to teenagers. They are brainless and have all this at their fingertips. Off all the useless bills that are introduced, I think an age restriction on the internet might be worth considering.
It is creating a generation of thoughtless, hateful idiots. Soon to be in a voting booth near you!
Report Post »deltamike
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:17pmAt first I thought all this hatred was unfounded. Then I heard the song.
This isn’t music, this is an atrocity.
UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:24pmI watched the video, too.
The Holocaust is and “atrocity”.
This is just a too-cutesy video with a too-cutesy song… and you have a strange set of priorities.
It is still better than 90% the drug-inspired drech vomited by left-wing progressives/facists that domiate the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame.
Report Post »Tnredneck
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:37pmWhat parent would allow their child to put out a song like this? This goes beyond sucks. I have 2 teen age daughters and they agreed. The parent should have to take the blame for this.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:41pmYes, this song is excruciatingly awful, but only in an aesthetic sense. It is not nearly as morally, spiritually and intellectually offensive as a lot of crap out there that kids are eating up. And for the brief period I could stand to watch the video she didn’t seem to be doing anything obscene or even suggestive. So, frankly, I‘m really not sure that she’s any worse than the Disney Channel, which I find artistically offensive on a deep, deep level.
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:43pmTNREDNECK:
So… instead of singing bad, inoffensive songs like “Friday”, would you have a problem with her parents allowing her to slut-up like Miley Cyrus?
Report Post »Tnredneck
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:14pmUSmajor…. You darn right I have a problem with the parents of miley Cyrus and the crap she puts out. My daughters are mad at me now cause they can’t get that stupid song out of their head. They never like Miley, Brittany, or gaga. I have taught them better. They know what good music is. Like BOoker T and the MG’s or the meters or any thing from stax or Motown for starters. Today’s pop M music sucks..
Report Post »Hungry_i
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 12:07amIf I was 13 or younger, I’d love it, and that’s the point. Let them enjoy their youth for crying out loud.
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 9:34amSo Miley Cyrus sluttiness is EQUAL to a song that has NO cursing, NO sex, and NO political posturing.
You have convinced me, Tennessee… let’s join in with the 4chan mouthbreathers and cyberbully a 13 year old girl for putting out a silly little pop song that harms NO ONE and will NEVER harm anyone.
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 9:42amNo, Hungry_I, we cannot allow that.
They must be forced to listen to what TN Red Neck deems “real” music.
(weird…. TNRN posts as a conservative…. not like the progressive hater we see in this thread)
Report Post »ArmyWifeNiz
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:11pmApparently all of those Federally Funded Anti- Bullying programs in our school are working as they should…the absolutely apalling lack of compassion for this girl as a human being makes me sick. Shame on the parents of these cyber bulliers for never caring enough about their kids to stick around long enough to teach them, If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:37pm4channers are not your typical bully whose parents can just step in. They tend to be in their 30‘s and 40’s, live in their parents basement, don’t bathe very often, don’t get any sun, still have their virginity (not by choice… they just aren’t attractive to the opposite sex because of looks and weight) and are very jealous that a person like Black can be a success while they will die alone.
4channers are the people who were bullied in real life and snapped permanently. The anonymity of the web gives them a false sense of power in fantasyland that, they feel, is denied them in the real world.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:10pmShe must not have passed muster with the Progressives! They are afraid that she will make some money instead of being dependent upon the government.
Report Post »colonial10
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:03pmIt may be an annoying song and in todays society you don’t even have to sing to be famous. You can‘t argue the question though that she’s creating jobs and living her dreams. She has probably created more jobs then then Obama claims. Maybe she’ll take advice and try something with a little more skill. If it was my daughter I would be supporting her.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:02pmWhy would people want to hurt this girl. Just what has she done to anyone?? This world has gone MAD…………….
Report Post »STUBBYK
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:31pmWhat this is is a classic act of bullying. It comes from people who have no class and even less talent. Being jealous may bring out this behavior. Since she’s cute the blogs may be from the ugly step-sister type. Whatever!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:51pmI can’t figure out what the big objection is! I was just like her when I was a kid. Oh — Maybe they hate her for good, clean fun? If she had dressed like Slutsville GaGa, they would have LOVED her!!!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:55pmThe cash will comfort her….
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 3:10pmWhy she is getting bullied is quite simple because she did something no one else did.
Report Post »stevefim5
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 4:07pmThis visceral and random animosity for a 13-year old girl that is just doing something she likes (that also happens to be wholesome) saddens me. It exemplifies a major element of what is wrong in our country today; symbolic of a gross lack of empathy. Pray we pull this country out of it’s flaming descent…..
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:41amWhat’s with all this talk of “bullying?” When I was a kid, you had to actually beat somebody up to earn the title bully. Insults, mockery, gossip .. these were considered normal conversation. I feel sorry for these kids today who are being taught that they have a right to control how others speak about them. They are very poorly prepared for the real world where insults and abuse are part of the right of free speech. The bottom line is, when you put your work out in a public forum, you’re making yourself a public figure, You do it because you want to be famous, and you better be ready to take the bad along with the good.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:00pmthis behavior is disgusting
and the lacking ingredients in a society that is a cause of this behavior???
discipline and SHAME
shame on the parents for raising kids that behave this way. if child services are looking for children in need, this would be a good place to start
Report Post »rlawson031
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 2:39amMan, I can’t believe some of you talk about being bullied as being ok, or a rite of passage. And then some of you nuts go into how it’s like being in the military. As a middle aged Army Medic, I can only say that my experience has been of 2 kinds. The other soldiers that mad you go through a tough process but were decent enough, and those that were out right turds and enjoyed name calling and pushing a face in the mud.
Report Post »The debate over this young girls song, video and talent is fine. We all have our opinions, but to ver bully someone, make threats and think hateful thoughts is just disgusting. You don’t like a song, a video or the singer? Then don’t watch or listen. Or post a respectful comment. Anyone spewing out hate, name calling and violence needs to be heavily medicated for the good of others.
Peaceful debate on all issues is what we should be focusing on, and how we are now headed to a 3rd war……..
Peace out! Love your neighbor, and love your enemy even more.
d55may
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:06pmThere are things to fight for(and ways to fight)that are meaningful, this is just mean to be mean and hateful. This generation is sadly missing compassion. They are selfish, greedy, lustful, egoistical, fanatical, and vile.
Report Post »calamari12
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:57pmAnd why are we going to destroy this 13-year-old? What has she done wrong other than be a mediocre singer to a mediocre song? Is it because she ISN’T naked in the video? What is wrong with these people?
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:59pmThere are worse things on Tosh.0. Come on, how is that worse than the last Ben Affleck movie?
cheezwhiz
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:01pmShould she “cut and die” as one person has urged her to do?
——————-
Why doesn’t that person NOT CLICK on her video ?
Over and over again
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:09pmHey Cheez
I didn‘t go to Matt Damon’s last movie over and over again. I agree, if you don‘t like her don’t listen, but to get that vile over someone who, really is just having fun doing a video. I would hate to see what the comments would have been like during the Mili Vanali period.
Come on people.
Report Post »Berbel73
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:10pmWhat is wrong with these people? An over developed sense of self importance for starters. These people are the perfect example of the progressive mindset. Terroristic threat charges should be brought against these people!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:11pmCalamari:
I agree, at thirteen she is just beginning to find out what the world is about and people seem to enjoy the destruction of others in this day…so pathetic is it not.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:18pmA bizarre social networking website called 4chan is organizing something called “Operation Black Friday” to cruelly ambush Black in real life:……
Report Post »————–
Are these 4chan “ organizers” affiliated with Trumka + AFL-CIO+VanJones ?
That level of viciousness and hostility and desire for total anhilation is not at all normal
in normal people
82dAirborne
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:22pmI think the answer is extremely simple and as old as mankind: jealousy. Period. Same thing happens to Glenn Beck. He is exponentially more successful than those on the left they attack in any way they can think of. In both of these cases the “mob or pack mentality” take over and………………..
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:23pmI just saw good kids having good clean fun. As a father of 2 daughters{ now grown } i approve
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:35pmI challenge any of you to find a crack pipe anywhere in this video. Leave the girls alone and let em have fun
Report Post »PrfctlyFrank
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:42pmHere’s where the social network starts to get weird.. The video, to be perfectly frank, sucks. The music is blase’, it’s cheaply done and boring and obviously people like it.. It‘s not good enough to hate her for so there’s some underground viral thing some jealous little beeaaaatchesss started I’ll betcha.. 17m hits though, must’ve caught on in India..
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:47pmUm…I am 39, and when I was in high school, our “rebellion” song was Beastie Boys “You gotta Fight For Your Right to Party’. Drove my elders nuts.
Report Post »This is the kind of hyper-digitised music our teens are listening to, it is their generation, and their turn to piss us off. It is a never ending cycle that will run through eternity! Yeah, I think this is crap, but if my 13-year-old daughter digs it, i let her be. Her favorite “artist” is Eminem and that is ok. What we as the parents of these “degenerate” kids (as we were all once “degenerate” kids) need to do is talk to them and make sure they know how to survive in a world where teens go to parties. My 13-year-old is gonna be so hard core about the evils of boys by the time she goes to college she will be embarrassing the boys when they try their stupid tricks (as all us men did when we were boys!)
So don’t let this bother you, but instead use it as another opportunity to talk to your teen and make them understand virtue and honor, and teach them to be a good person. It ain’t that hard really.
Dustyluv
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:52pmYou can hate me all you want for that kinda cash…
Report Post »No1YaKnow
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:10pmUh oh. Let’s see…she’s acting age appropriate, there is no cursing in the song, no bumping and grinding, fully dressed and she is making no political statements. Could this be why psychos are focusing on her? I really feel bad for the girl. It’s just a song–not a good one, but who cares. Britney couldn’t sing at all and how she compensated is being as over the top sexual as she could—and this started with her FIRST video which people have to ask why her parents approved of. Either way…
This is insanity. Pray for her safety.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:18pmWell I think she is just cute as a button.The song is a little immature and lame but it is catchy.I think if she had someone like Bob Foster the star maker she could be trained and do really well.Even if she didn’t get any training and stayed as she is, I mean look “The Monkeys” made it and they weren’t very good and had lame songs also. As far as those going after her on the internet I wish they could catch them and prosecute them.I don’t understand why kids do things like this. If I were her Mom I would be terrified for her.If I had a child that was doing the bullying I definitely would not spare the rod and ruin the child. What makes even kids want to be this mean.
Report Post »american1st
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:25pm“Are these 4chan “ organizers” affiliated with Trumka + AFL-CIO+VanJones ?
That level of viciousness and hostility and desire for total anhilation is not at all normal
in normal people”
nope cheese
Report Post »these are the ones associated with “anonymous” that do DDos attacks for wiki leaks…
82dAirborne
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:26pm@Dustyluv
Yep – If you are an adult. For a 13-14 year old girl…. Who knows how that kind of crap will affect them? I think the media hype only makes this kind of thing worse. I admit I am an old guy. 51. I was bullied a time or two and to be completely honest I probably “bullied” others once in a while when I was young. Back then it wasn’t that big of a deal. It was a fact of life – a rite of passage.
The military is a great example. In basic training (in any branch) you are torn down to your core in some respects. and then you learn to build yourself up. Ask My Sacred Honor – He will tell you his training was the toughest. I’ll tell you the Infantry School at Ft. Benning and jump school was much tougher. A SEAL or RANGER or RECONDO MARINE will say we are both nuts. But both of us look down on a raw recruit because he/she hasn’t gone through the same thing -yet. You pay your dues and THEN you talk smack.
The media makes being bullied into such a huge deal teenagers think it needs a drastic reaction. I don’t belive basic human nature has changed. The focus has been increased by the 24/7/365 media attention.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:37pm@ Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Report Post »Typical response from the stoned alinsky brigade….freeze the target and then its bloody war .
I wonder if these same people felt the same way towards that stupid autotuned video called
“ I whip my hair back and forth” ..
I wonder why ? Why NO ONE had the guts to ‘organize’ a 4chan hit on THAT little girl?
Glenn in Virginia
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:38pmMaybe it’s just me, but I kinda liked her video. I think she has a very nice voice.
Greatest of luck to her!!!!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:43pm@cheezwhiz
Report Post »True.
mharry860
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:55pmI’ll keep my personal torment to myself and stop it as fast as possible. It could be used to torture terrorists with though. I would never let her know how I feel.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 12:04am82dAirborne
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:26pm
@Dustyluv
Yep – If you are an adult. For a 13-14 year old girl…. Who knows how that kind of crap will affect them? I think the media hype only makes this kind of thing worse. I admit I am an old guy. 51. I was bullied a time or two and to be completely honest I probably “bullied” others once in a while when I was young. Back then it wasn’t that big of a deal. It was a fact of life – a rite of passage.
The military is a great example. In basic training (in any branch) you are torn down to your core in some respects. and then you learn to build yourself up. Ask My Sacred Honor – He will tell you his training was the toughest. I’ll tell you the Infantry School at Ft. Benning and jump school was much tougher. A SEAL or RANGER or RECONDO MARINE will say we are both nuts. But both of us look down on a raw recruit because he/she hasn’t gone through the same thing -yet. You pay your dues and THEN you talk smack.
LOL, I am a rare example of a Marine. I agree that in boot camp, for ALL branches (except the Air Force Corporation) experience what you called a “break down and rebuilding”. That is necessary to make an individual into a militay, defence-minded person. But to say that my experience at parris Island was somehow “tougher” than what recruit Soldiers and Seamen (lol “seamen”) had to endure is rediculous. First, I have not been through the other services’ recruit training, and well, there is no second.
Also, I will submit that all Special Forces traing is aweful to endure, even the Air Force’s Search and Rescue teams. I don’t believe there is a scale for “toughest training” at that level. BUT, I have always said that the Navy SEALS is the best of the best of the best, SIR! (quoting “Men in Black”) Just look at the Somali pirate episode last year where 3/4 SEAL snipers scored head shots in rolling seas over a hundred yards away, ship-to-ship simultaneously. That is so far fetched it seems impossible, yet they did it. And the fourth shot incapacitated the hijacker.
I don’t see different branches as being superior to others (except normal airmen, but I reckon they are the “brains” of the armed forces) except on one point.
Report Post »Marines are trained in their respective jobs, yes, but they are also trained as basic riflemen, and have constant traing to be infantrymen throughout their careers. Therefore, even an admin Marine knows how to pick up his gear and walk into a war zone and kill the enemy.
Can you, 82nd, tell me the same about an admin Soldier?
My Sacred Honor
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 12:06amHey, 82nd, do me a favor and look on my comments on
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and comment there on my treatment of libmarine?
I’d appreciate an old-schooler’s opinion on my comments
nothingbuthetruth
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 12:07amThere is a disturbing culture I have notice in the past few years I really didnt know existed. It is like these comics cross every line out there for a laugh, but they dont make fun of Obama, just conservatives or people trying to do the right thing. Like they are looking down their noses at people, mean girl jokes.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 12:16amObviously, there is a degenerate, destructive group of people out there that we never knew existed. They seem to be crawling out of the swamp and exposing themselves as really nasty reptiles. It just makes no sense that so many people (and I say that sarcastically) would be so vicious to a young girl who has done no harm to anyone. If this is a sign of the evil that is out there, we need to circle the wagons and protect our innocent young.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 12:24amThis young girl is better than most of the stuff out there on the net and the radio. YOU GO GIRL!!!!
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 12:29am@My Sacred Honor
Report Post »1) I think that we are way overthinking this. My point was that it is possible to take a bunch of s$%^ and still be okay.
2) That sometimes you have to go through a tough period to understand what you are really made of.
3) The media is making things worse for our kids/grandkids
4)It is more than okay to be proud of your accomplishments in life, whatever they may be.
5) Inter-service rivalry is part of the game, a healthy game if you ask me. Yes of course it takes every branch to make the whole thing work.
6) Every insult I dishout I am more than willing to take.
7) I believe everyone should believe their branch is the best!
8) IF PLM served he is a strange animal. I can’t agree with anything he posted. That doesn’t make him wrong just odd to my way of thinking.
9) No! Our headquarters pukes could not shoot their way out of a paper bag.
walkwithme1966
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 12:45amActually I didn’t think it was so bad – but I guess since I don’t agree with the article, this post will be DELETED immediately!! http://wp.me/pYLB7-KX
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 12:47amLOL @ 82nd…
Report Post »At the very least, will the Army headquarters pukes shoot towards the zip line?
My Sacred Honor
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 12:52amAnd 82nd, I’m still waiting for your comment on the Herman Cain story…
Report Post »“Inter-service rivalry”?? Hell, we had rivalry between fire-team units within a squad in the Marines! lol!
Of COURSE Marines think they are the best (and rightfully so!) But being the 99th percentile in a nation full of servicemen (and women) who are collectively in the 97th percentile in the world….
Well, being at the “bottom” of that pile still ain’t bad!
82dAirborne
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 12:54am@walkwithme1966
Report Post »Jeeeez get over the “poor me” crap. We think it’s the links that are getting posts deleted. Not just yours.
82dAirborne
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 12:59am@My Sacred Honor
Report Post »See #8. It’s late, i am tired. I’ll go through that topic again in the morning. The Blaze should give us a general “chat room.” We are so far off topic…….
My Sacred Honor
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 1:05amCall me anyway.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 1:07am“God is great, beer is good…..and people are crazy”
Report Post »Want to talk to an old-timer effing Ranger! That would make my year!
Svt4Him
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 3:27amI was discussing this over at a different site. I’m not trying to spam, but I wonder if it’s the same issue:
http://www.christianforums.com/t7537497/
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 4:30amCute kid having fun singing a song written by a coupl. of AA dudes. Most of the losers making the nasty remarks are pathetic creeps. Anyhoo she will clean up out of this hoopla. Probably end up with and acting career. Smaret kid. No doubt she will be a super hot 18 year old.
Report Post »goatkid
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 5:44am@calamari12
Report Post »Agreed. The internet can be a terrible thing. Or rather, terrible people now have access to show how evil they really are. Just let her sing. They don’t have to listen.
avenger
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:35amcan we get owe bama to sing this song also…
Report Post »thetreyman
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:43amthere is no need to destroy her. i don’t really care for the song though. i didn‘t care for suzanne vega’s song tom’s diner either but a lot of people did. this song reminded me of that for some reason.
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:53amIs this one of George W. Bush’s daughters? Sarah Palin’s? What gives? I thought every teen that put out a record was IDOLIZED? Did she piss-off the head of a big record label? Why the hate? What the hell is wrong with people nowadays? I don’t get it. Guess I must be naive, or something along those lines. Give the kid a break, America; for Christ sake’s, she just a teenager singing a song!!!
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 9:38amThe parents of these cyber-haters never cared about them or payed attention to them. They turn to these tactics to fill the void their parents left!!! Truth hurts sometimes!
Report Post »arx
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 9:48amSomeone needs to find out who these 4channers are and post their real names and addresses. Evil bastards following Satan’s instigation to attack a young girl like that. Like others have said, if she was half dressed they would have left her alone.
Report Post »Rob
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 9:58amWhy do people even care? Humans are just stupid.
Report Post »Sheepdog911
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 10:11amShe sings better than her own idol, Justin. Catchy tune, may be my new ringtone for one of my kids. You go girl. Jealousy is so pitiful.
Report Post »USAMama
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 10:27amThis is just so sad :( And its one thing to make cruel comments, but why are they harrassing her at school and trying to get her home address? Thats just scary! This poor girl, I pray nothing bad happens to her.
Report Post »hud
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 10:29amA tad irritating
Report Post »Love Bandit Bestid
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 10:37amHer audience is pre-teen.
Report Post »She is not being offensive.
Hopefully kids that age are still happy and optimistic.
So why are ‘adults’ being critical ?
CTHULHUWILLEATYOUFIRST
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 10:48amWho are we talking about? And why?
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 11:29amShe is a beautiful girl, (only 13???), and although her music is not what I like, I hope she is successful and tells the jerks to take a hike. Good luck Rebecca!
Report Post »Uriel
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 12:43pmWhat the he11 is this, and why is it news; and even if it’s news, why is it on the Blaze. This site goes downhill — not an easy accomplishment — on a daily basis. I think it‘s Stu’s fault. I blame Stu.
Report Post »nptden
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 1:32pmI guess there wasn’t any MFKr words or the usual trash to make it a hit.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 1:49pm“Wannabe pop star”. 17 million views, top 40 charting, um and we are talking her right now… so… it seems like you could take the “wannabe” out of that headline. Agree, i don’t understand why people hate her, its not my kind of music, but apparently somebody likes it, so whats the big deal…
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 2:31pmDon’t we all gotta make our mind up? What seat CAN we take?
It’s existential, damn it!
Report Post »Joe_Anchorage_True_American
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 3:49pmIf it ain’t gospel or country/western, I don’t much care for it.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 4:44pm……..
Ms Black, let me give you some advice for your music career.
First, claim to be a minority. Next, sex it up. Then throw in the “F” bomb, oh, a hundred times.
Then, do some drugs, go to jail, and claim to have slept with Justin Bieber,
it doesn’t matter if you do or not.
I smell a Grammy!
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 5:04pmHeaven forbid someone do better than that sorry azz canuuk justin…!
Report Post »RSHLUVER
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:03pmShe is cute. People should leave her alone. They don’t have to watch her music video. The same poeple that want her to go away are promoting her by clicking on her video. I hope she get’s the last word and is signed an actual record contract.Sheesh.
Report Post »random357
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 10:11pmI thought hillary rotten klinton was the most hated woman in history.
Report Post »ottodiedacktick
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 12:34amThe story here is that coming on the heels of the Aussie bullying “incident”, the government wants to create a sympathetic story to justify further intrusion into our private lives. The media are itching to get the parents to say the magic words: “I think the government should do something about this because … ”
The government will step in to the rescue. They want to pass the school-principal-snooping-into-your-child’s-life-law. For instance, a high school in Lower Merion, PA was caught turning on the microphone and video cameras remotely, while students were supposed to be enjoying the privacy of their homes. They (administrators) then reported what they thought was illegal drug use. The school district was wrong and it was sued. The computers in question were issued by the school district. Beware of the Trojan Horse.
Report Post »Here2do
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 12:59amTHIS IS A HORRIBLE SONG AND PERFORMANCE! But at least she can say that it’s one she wrote.
Report Post »outathecircle
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 1:40amSorry, I am lost, do you know which way to the post button?
Report Post »Aesculf
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 2:00amThe left and their vitriol! They are so hateful and I don’t understand why. Her music if fine, not my kind of music though but still. FOR THE LIBERALS IF YOU DON‘T LIKE IT DON’T BUY IT OR WATCH/LISTEN TO IT!!!
Report Post »TruthLover
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:45amWell, not one kid in that convertible was wearing a seatbelt. Not a good example. (so what.)
Cute girl, cute song, stupid masses with nothing to do but turn their jealousy into toxic waste. If this is “the current generation” then I fear for this poor Rebecca. I hope somehow there’s at least one sweet boy out there she can find someday.
Also – another fanstinkintastic reason to continue to homeschool my own boys. TYVM.
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 6:46amThis is the new generation. I‘ve seen it coming for the last 30 years and it’s only getting worse. There are large numbers of young people that are narcissists with deep irrational hate bottled up in them. They focus on the negative and get a sense of enjoyment belittling people. It’s another form of bulling.
Report Post »Quite often they grow up to be progressives. :)
Shane0143
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 8:55amOk it is not the best song I ever heard, but definitely one my children can listen to. Rather than hip hop or gangsta rap who’s messgae is money, clothes, ho’s, sex violence and raping women.
Report Post »TheBMT
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 11:21amsome people have crappy lives, so to feel better they get all pissy about other people. Is it a good song? Nah. Does it sound like some of those lines were mocking pop? Yea. Did it sound like some of those lines were ripped from other pop songs? Yea.
Report Post »The Catalyst
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 11:59amIf your kid’s going to record a song for a record label and make a music video, it should maybe tip you off when they make YOU pay. I think this girl and her mom were scammed.. seems like whoever made that video meant it as a cruel,cruel joke. Did it all in one take, and charged them $2000 for it? How sad…..
Report Post »Patriot Z
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 1:22pmi agree. what is wrong with people. this is what we have when we let libs lead the way. self rightious people who cant do any better but will slam anyone who tries. i bet if this girl was knoced up or on crack slapping her mom on jerry springer, the people would love her. id love to meet the lil punk who tolder her to “cut herself and die” it would be a pleasure to kick the crap out of him and show him manners. no mr tolerant…time to bring back old school azz whoopins!
Report Post »d55may
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:59pmwhat’s this “we” talk. Face it 1/2 of this country is just plain mean and vile.
Report Post »DavidInStLouis
Posted on March 21, 2011 at 12:27pmNO1YAKNOW, you stated correctly: “Uh oh. Let’s see…she’s acting age appropriate, there is no cursing in the song, no bumping and grinding, fully dressed and she is making no political statements. Could this be why psychos are focusing on her?” I agree wholeheartedly! : ) That’s the kind of fun I would approve of my daughter enjoying!
The main reason this video is getting the attention it is, I believe, is that it‘s so well produced that it APPEARS to be a ’serious commercial endeavor’. It’s just a fun project that any 13-year-old girl might want to experience.
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