now i'm sure if you're reading this, your first thoughts are probably somewhere along the lines of "seriously? somebody is going to defend such an awful song?" whelp....here we go.
first of all. she's 13 years old. 13. thirteen. that's 8th or 9th grade. lets look back on ourselves at 13 and what we wanted more than anything. if someone came to you and told you they could make your biggest fantasy a reality, would you say no at the sake of artistic integrity? no you wouldn't. you're 13, you don't know what artistic integrity is. now let me clarify, this song is in fact a fucking AWFUL song, but the hate it is generating and the hate towards her is completely unjust. this girl took a shot at becoming a famous singer because it was her dream and she was successful. you can not condemn her for that.
now, of course, the anti-globalist conspiracy theorist in me wants to say this is just a ploy by big corporations trying to dumb down our society even more....and let's be honest...that's exactly what it is. the people to blame for such a bad moment in musical history are the people that wrote this song and the people that used a 13 year old girl to make money. not rebecca black. she's blame free. she is doing what any other 13 year old girl would do in her situation. seeing interviews with her saying that the hate her video was gathering was bringing her to tears....that's just not right. the hate should be at the money-makers and the suites who tried to bank off a poor girl by giving her such a piece of garbage to make her famous.
rebecca black, as far as i can tell, is a role model 13 year old, and the world could use more of her. she's donating the money she's making from this song to relief efforts in japan and to her high school. that's fucking awesome. this girl could stand to make enough money off this garbage to sit pretty for some years to come, whether it be to pay for her college or fund a legitimate recording career. instead she's giving it all to charity.
hat's off to you, rebecca black. good for you.
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some other thoughts on the world right now. the mess in japan and the crisis in the middle east are all fucking awful. this world has been so violent both naturally and militantly that it's unnatural. what happened in japan is just another example, as far as i'm concerned, that God is pissed. and i don't blame Him.
now let's go back to when the earthquake first hit japan and they were talking about how the nuclear reactors weren't going to be a problem and that everything was going to be okay and that death tolls were low and blah blah blah blah. i was sitting in a hotel room in savannah, ga with a couple guys on my rugby team and i said out-loud "that's bullshit, give it a week and all kinds of bad things are going to happen with the nuclear reactors." well.....here we are.
every night when you watch the news, it's almost always horror stories and depressing bullshit. we try and downplay the severity of such things and then we just consistently correct ourselves and tell the real side of the story as it keeps getting worse.
let's get fucking optimistic.
how does one do that? when such an event happens, expect the fucking worst. say everything is as bad as it could possibly be. and then, when it turns out that it isn't so bad, and the reactors aren't so awful, and the death tolls aren't so high, it'll be some fucking good news for a change and people will have a sense of relief saying "oh, well it isn't as bad as we thought" instead of it constantly being the other way around. i'm just so sick of being lied to and fed so much depressing news about how the world keeps getting worse.
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