{"id":658,"date":"2011-07-19T10:20:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T14:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/the_prophet_of_pop\/?p=658"},"modified":"2011-07-19T10:25:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T14:25:34","slug":"this-is-rebecca-blacks-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/the_prophet_of_pop\/2011\/07\/this-is-rebecca-blacks-moment.html","title":{"rendered":"This is Rebecca Black&#8217;s Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Hit &#8220;like&#8221; to share this blistering commentary with your friends<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Rebecca Black - My Moment\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2OxWD85Ngz4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Rebecca Black is back, and this time she is for playing for reals.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of launching the original follow-up single called &#8220;LOL,&#8221; Rebecca&#8217;s handlers and parents, I mean Rebecca, decided instead to launch a serious song about her rise to stardom.\u00a0 Gone is the whimsical fun of &#8220;Friday,&#8221; replaced by a more natural sounding, yet no less auto-tuned, version of the pop starlet.<\/p>\n<p>Man, is it bad.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, &#8220;Friday&#8221; was as annoying as a hit song can be, but it&#8217;s popularity was as much due to it&#8217;s cheesiness as it was to anyone actually enjoying it.\u00a0 The song was obnoxious but it made you smile, because who doesn&#8217;t love Fridays?\u00a0 &#8220;LOL,&#8221; I thought, had a lot of potential for the same terrible, yet fun, absurdity.\u00a0 Surely it would keep her around for at least a couple of more months.\u00a0 But, &#8220;My Moment,&#8221; well, it&#8217;s an intimate piece about about how awesome Rebecca Black is.\u00a0 It would be great if it weren&#8217;t for one small thing:<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Black is not awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hit &#8220;like&#8221; to share this blistering commentary with your friends Rebecca Black is back, and this time she is for playing for reals. 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