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YMMV: Rebecca Black

  • Acceptable Target
  • Butt Monkey
  • Critical Backlash: Friday is often decried as the worst song of all time by many. It has insipid lyrics and it spams autotune, yes, but the song is admittedly kind of catchy.
  • Ear Worm: It goes without saying.
  • Fan Hater
  • Fountain of Memes: Boy howdy.
  • Growing the Beard: "Sing It" shows considerable improvement from her first song.
  • Hate Dumb: From the YouTube comments on Friday alone, it's evident that many people hate Rebecca Black for things she's clearly not responsible for. And what about those awful death threats and trash talk that made the poor girl cry?
  • She Really Can Sing: "My Moment" shows a significant improvement.
    • She sang "Friday" without autotune. She is actually pretty fine as a vocalist.
    • This video shows that she has a relatively decent singing voice.
  • I Liked It Better When It Sucked: plenty of people loved Friday because it was so horribly bad. It had terrible lyrics and overly autotuned vocals with generic pop music. However, "My Moment" was considered by by the public to be... listenable. It didn't have nearly the amount or cheesy fun the original had and was just not fun.
  • Misblamed: The lyrics and the abusive use of auto-tune were actually done by Ark Music Factory, the company that produced the music video, not Rebecca Black herself.
  • Never Live It Down: Friday
  • No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: All those YouTube hits net Rebecca Black over 20 grand.
  • Scapegoat Creator: Rebecca Black did not write the lyrics or tune of Friday, nor was she responsible for the post-production or music video.
  • Signature Song: "Friday".
  • So Bad, It's Good: Considered this by people who find "Friday" hilariously bad.
  • So Okay, It's Average: "My Moment."
  • The Scrappy: People who still haven't gotten past "Friday" still consider her to be one. At one point, she overtook the status as Youtube's Scrappy from Justin Bieber. It seems to have died down considerably by the time "Sing It" was released.
  • The Woobie: After Friday, the backlash hit so hard that people were bullying her in real life, with some going so far as to sending her death threats. She eventually turned this around by going on to donating the profits from the song to Japan's relief fund for the 2011 tsunami.


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