Yeah pretty much that. A bad song that was written with daddy’s money, recorded with daddy’s money, filmed with daddy’s money, distributed with daddy’s money, that’s the impression it left. And it was being blasted in our faces everywhere.

As a very mediocre (then-professional and not making much money) musician it left a very bitter taste in my mouth. Granted some of it was jealousy, because I was in one of the ten top groups in the world in my genre and still no one who didn’t play in our genre locally knew who we were. Shit, if just one of our songs could get that kind of airtime… Anyways. I’ve moved on to smaller and better things.

That was my understanding. Dad wants to make his kid’s dream of being a pop star come true, so he spends tons of money to make it happen, and she became a meme because all the money can’t make up for lack of talent. There was probably also some schadenfreude when held against all of the other artificially boosted Disney pop star kids who were still in the internet’s collective memory at the time.

I should also say that I have no opinions on Rebecca Black as a person, she could be a really lovely and genuine person for all I know. And apparently she is still out there making music, which is fine if it makes her happy.

But damn did I hate hearing that song. Still do. It’s just a bad song.