Rebecca
Black
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Rebecca Black
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Birth name
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Rebecca Renee Black
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Born
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June 21, 1997 (age 14)
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Occupations
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Years active
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2011–present
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RB Records
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Rebecca Renee Black[1] (born June 21, 1997) is an
American pop singer who gained extensive media attention
with the 2011 single "Friday".
Her mother paid $4,000 to have the single and an accompanying music video put out as a vanity release[2] through the record label ARK Music Factory.[3] The song was co-written and produced by
Clarence Jey and Patrice Wilson of Ark Music Factory. After the
video went viral on YouTube and other social media sites, "Friday" was
derided by many music critics and viewers, who dubbed it "the worst song
ever."[4][5][6] The music video received around 167
million views, causing Black to gain international attention as a "viral star", before being removed from the
site on June 16. Black re-uploaded it in her own channel three months later.
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2 Career
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Early life
Rebecca Black was born on June 21, 1997,[7][8] in Anaheim, California.[8] She is the daughter of John Jeffery
Black and Georgina Marquez Kelly, both veterinarians.[3][9] She is of Spanish, Italian, English and Polish descent.[10] An honor student, Black studied dance, auditioned
for school shows, attended music summer camps, and began singing publicly in
2008 after joining the patriotic group Celebration USA.[8] In 2011 Black left public school in
favor of homeschooling, both in
response to constant verbal bullying at school and in
order to focus more of her time on her career.[11] Black later said that her main reason
for the move to homeschooling was more for career reasons rather than the
bullying.[12]
Career
Ark Music Factory and
"Friday" (2010–2011)
In late 2010, a classmate of Black and music-video client of ARK Music Factory, a Los Angeles label, told her about the company.[13] Black's mother paid $4,000 for Ark
Music to produce the music video while the Blacks retained ownership of both
the master and the video.[3][14] The single, "Friday",
written entirely by Ark, was released on YouTube and iTunes. The song's video was uploaded to YouTube on February
10, 2011, and received approximately 1,000 views in the first month.[8] The video went viral on March 11, 2011, acquiring millions of
views on YouTube in a matter of days, becoming the most-talked-about topic on social networking site Twitter,[15] and garnering mostly negative media
coverage.[16] As of June 14, 2011, the video had
received more than 3,190,000 "dislikes" on YouTube compared to more than 451,000
"likes".[citation needed]
As of March 22, 2011, first-week sales of her digital single were estimated to
be around 40,000 by Billboard.[17] On March 22, 2011, Black appeared on The Tonight
Show with Jay Leno, during which she performed the single and
discussed the negative reaction to it.[18] The song has peaked on the Billboard Hot 100
and the New
Zealand Singles Chart at number 58 and 33, respectively.[19][20] In the UK, the song debuted at number
61 on the UK Singles Chart.[21]
Black teamed up with Funny or Die on April Fools Day (the site was renamed Friday or
Die) for a series of videos, including one which addresses the controversy
about the driving kids in her music video, stating "We so excited about
safety."[22]
She has stated that she is a fan of Justin Bieber, and expressed interest in
performing a duet with him.[23]
In response to the YouTube video of "Friday", Black began to
receive death threats in late February 2011, specifically by phone and email.[24] These threats are being investigated
by the Anaheim Police Department.[25]
In March 2011, Ryan Seacrest
reportedly helped sign Rebecca to manager Debra Baum's DB Entertainment.[26]
MTV selected Rebecca to host its first online
awards show, the O Music Awards Fan Army Party in April 2011.[27] As an homage to "Friday",
Black appears in the music video for Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night
(T.G.I.F.)",[28] in which Black plays alongside Perry
as the hostess of a party Perry attends. "Friday" was also performed
on the second season of Glee in the episode, "Prom Queen", which originally aired May 10,
2011. When asked about why the song was covered on Glee, show creator Ryan Murphy
replied, "The show pays tribute to pop culture and, love it or hate it,
that song is pop culture."[29]
RB Records and upcoming album
(2011–present)
After the fallout with Ark Music Factory, Black announced she would
start an independent record
label named RB Records. Black released a self-produced single titled
"My Moment" on July 18 by her own label RB
Records, with an accompanying music video, publishing it to her YouTube
channel; the video as of November 27 has received, approximately, 590,000
"dislikes" against 340,000 "likes."[30] In the "My Moment" music
video, director Morgan Lawley features real life video of Black's life from
both before and after her fame.[31]
Black is planning to release her official debut album around November of
2011, which she said will include "a bunch of different kinds of
stuff."[32] It is being recorded at a studio
belonging to music producer Charlton Pettus.[33] In an interview with The Sun,
Black said that the songs will be "appropriate and clean".
Black appears as herself in the music video of Katy Perry's single "Last Friday Night
(T.G.I.F.)". She appears as the host of a party in the house
next door to that of "Kathy Beth Terry". At the end of the video
Perry attempts to blame the excesses of
the party (which had subsequently moved to her own house) on Black, only for
her parents (Corey Feldman and Debbie Gibson) to disbelieve her.[34] Later on, Perry (in character as Kathy
Beth Terry) and Black hosted a livestream on Tinychat.com after weeks of Black
being mentioned on Terry's twitter.[35] Perry, who performs Friday routinely
on stage as part of California Dreams Tour,
also brought Black on stage to perform the song as a duet during her show at
the Nokia Theater on August 5, 2011.[36]
On August 10, 2011, Rebecca Black was featured in an ABC Primetime
Nightline: Celebrity Secrets special entitled Underage and Famous:
Inside Child Stars' Lives.[37]
On Friday, September 16, Black re-uploaded "Friday"
on YouTube.[38] In late September 2011, she was
brought to Australia by Telstra to promote the launch
of their 4G service.[39]
On October 25, Black announced she started filming her upcoming music
video which she first identified as 'POI' and later identified as "Person
of Interest".[40] Black said, "My next single
coming out is called 'Person of Interest.' The basis of it is that it's a love
song but it's not a love song. It's about almost teenage crushes — when you're
not in love yet but you really like a guy — which I'm really excited about
because I don't think there are too many out like that. It's very much a dance
type song. It will make you get up and dance and sing along in your car."[41] A teaser of the official music video
was posted on November 3, 2011.[42] Black released another teaser
including a snippet of the song on November 10, 2011 on her YouTube channel.
The single and its accompanying music video were released on November 15, 2011.[43]
On Dec 20., 2011 Friday was revealed as the #1 video of the year by
YouTube and Black hosted a short video called YouTube Rewind.[44]
Discography
Singles
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Year
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Peak chart positions
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Album
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"Friday"
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2011
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58
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40
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61
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46
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33
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60
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Non-album single
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Music videos
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List of music videos, showing year released
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Title
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Director(s)
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"Friday"
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2011
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Marc Klasfeld
Danny Lockwood |
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Awards and nominations
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In April 2011, the MTV O Music Awards,
one of the annual awards established by MTV
to honor the art, creativity, personality and technology of music into the
digital space nominated "Which Seat Can I Take?" for "Favorite
Animated GIF" that included footage by Rebecca Black featuring 50 Cent and
Bert.[50]
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Black was named "Choice
Web Star" at the 2011 Teen Choice
Awards in August 2011.[51]
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Year
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Nominated work
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Event
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Award
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Result
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2011
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"Which
Seat Can I Take?"
(50 Cent, Rebecca Black, Bert) |
Favorite
Animated GIF
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Nominated
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Herself
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Choice
Web Star
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Won
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J-14
Teen Icon Awards
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Iconic
Web Star
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Pending
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