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  • Fountain of Memes:
  • Growing the Beard: "Sing It" shows considerable improvement from her first song. By that point, there were more comments giving her support than ridicule.
    • The iTunes ratings of her songs arguably show this trope so much:
      • "Friday": 2 stars
      • "My Moment": 3 and a half stars
      • "Person of Interest": 3 and a half stars
      • "Sing It": 3 stars
      • "In Your Words": 4 stars
      • "We Can't Stop": 5 and a half stars
  • He Really Can Act:
    • "My Moment" shows a significant improvement.
    • She sang an acoustic version of "Friday" without autotune. She is actually pretty fine as a vocalist.
    • This video shows that she has a relatively decent singing voice.
    • And then she dropped this, showing her to be a very good electropop singer-songwriter who can stand shoulder to shoulder with people like Dorian Electra and others. Earn Your Happy Ending comes in full force after her crash into the starlight as a meme a decade earlier.
  • I Knew It!: All the jokes about how Rebecca would release a follow-up to "Friday" titled "Saturday" pretty much died when she started releasing other songs. Then it happened.
  • LGBT Fanbase: She revealed in a 2020 interview that she identifies as queer, prompting a surge of appreciation from people who were about her age when "Friday" blew up and had since come out themselves, getting a kick out of the fact that an ironic childhood icon turned out to be like them.
    • She has since begun working with Hyperpop icons like Dorian Electra, cementing her status as an LGBT icon.
  • 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.
    • Though according to The Other Wiki, she did select this song out of a choice of two pre-written compositions, despite her mother's doubts. Rebecca's reason is that the unpicked track was about adult love, which she hadn't yet experienced at her age at that time.
  • No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: All those YouTube hits net Rebecca Black over 20 grand.
  • Signature Song: "Friday" is the only reason anybody knows her. Her other songs are much less known outside of people asking "what did the "Friday" singer do afterwards?"
  • So Bad, It Was Better: There's a faction out there that 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 of cheesy fun the original had.
  • Special Effect Failure: The bus sign in the "Friday" music video, which has visible artifacts at the bottom and also has poorer image quality which clashes with the rest of the video.
  • Tear Jerker: Her 2023 album, Let Her Burn, has some really heartbreaking tracks, such as "Sick To My Stomach" (a song about a second heartbreak about seeing an ex-lover falling in love and moving on, even if it's for the best).
  • Win Back the Crowd: After the infamous "Friday" song, she was able to do this with her good performances. Take at look at these covers Rebecca did and you will notice a lot more likes than dislikes.

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