My take on Rebecca Black
WARNING: The following video may boil your eyeballs and explode your eardrums in a way that a cool guy wouldn't look back on. If you have already watched this video, PLEASE don't watch it again. If you have children, pets, or significant others in the room, you may wish to ask them to leave, lest they put you away for fear of your sanity. Pregnant women and heart patients are advised not to watch this, because blah blah blah medical.
This video actually makes me sad. This young woman is actually completely devoid of talent, in a way that autotune could never hope to compensate for. And though she's "cute", she's actually fairly unattractive as far as making a talent-free video goes.
The problem is that some asshole (apparently the sort of asshole who always throws money at talent-free kids in the hopes that one will become a sensation of some sort-- sadface that he's sort of succeeded here) told this girl she was attractive and talented. And he gave her enough money to make what could have been an interesting, fun video and song, if she'd had the talent to pull it off. Unfortunately, she doesn't.
Consequently, she has become an internet sensation-- if, by "sensation", one means "laughingstock". If you try to look up her video on YouTube, you have to wade through a lot of e-famous video snarkers cashing in another fifteen minutes of fame making fun of her before you can even find her actual video.
I feel terribly bad for her. It's like if someone gave you $1000 bucks to buy a gorilla suit and go on a rampage through the mall-- with the promise that the stores would all pay great money for the fantastic publicity. By the time you realize that you aren't making a dime for your stunt, the person who made the promise is rolling in dough from contracts to keep you out of the mall in the future, plus YouTube commissions, while you're trying to pay off your fines and figure out how to show your face in public again.
This is clearly a girl who hoped to ride the coattails of Ke$ha and her ilk, and was told that that would be no problem. Now she's made an awful song (that she didn't even write, but will get blamed for), with awful vocalizations, that are frankly going to make it so that she's ashamed to go back to her own school.
I just feel bad for her.
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I know I promised a positive post. But the scanner is SO HARD TO USE, and I have to use it on Adrian's computer and then find his link to the network folder so I can access the pic from my computer, then shrink it and make sure it's in okay shape for viewing and SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU DON'T KNOW ME
Click to viewThis video actually makes me sad. This young woman is actually completely devoid of talent, in a way that autotune could never hope to compensate for. And though she's "cute", she's actually fairly unattractive as far as making a talent-free video goes.
The problem is that some asshole (apparently the sort of asshole who always throws money at talent-free kids in the hopes that one will become a sensation of some sort-- sadface that he's sort of succeeded here) told this girl she was attractive and talented. And he gave her enough money to make what could have been an interesting, fun video and song, if she'd had the talent to pull it off. Unfortunately, she doesn't.
Consequently, she has become an internet sensation-- if, by "sensation", one means "laughingstock". If you try to look up her video on YouTube, you have to wade through a lot of e-famous video snarkers cashing in another fifteen minutes of fame making fun of her before you can even find her actual video.
I feel terribly bad for her. It's like if someone gave you $1000 bucks to buy a gorilla suit and go on a rampage through the mall-- with the promise that the stores would all pay great money for the fantastic publicity. By the time you realize that you aren't making a dime for your stunt, the person who made the promise is rolling in dough from contracts to keep you out of the mall in the future, plus YouTube commissions, while you're trying to pay off your fines and figure out how to show your face in public again.
This is clearly a girl who hoped to ride the coattails of Ke$ha and her ilk, and was told that that would be no problem. Now she's made an awful song (that she didn't even write, but will get blamed for), with awful vocalizations, that are frankly going to make it so that she's ashamed to go back to her own school.
I just feel bad for her.
*****
I know I promised a positive post. But the scanner is SO HARD TO USE, and I have to use it on Adrian's computer and then find his link to the network folder so I can access the pic from my computer, then shrink it and make sure it's in okay shape for viewing and SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU DON'T KNOW ME