I went in with an open mind, and I admit to loathing all teen-oriented pop, but that is the suckiest thing I have seen in a good long while. Sorry Rebecca, but you are not ready for prime time. Nor is the "production company" that inflicted this on the world.
Those lyrics are vapid and horrid, even allowing for the age of the "artist". Not to be a hater, but I seriously could not stop laughing. How did she sing that trash without busting a gut?
The only talent I saw in the video was the rapper toward the end. He isn't bad, and I am not a huge fan of rap. The contrast makes him look like a genius, however.
If I went to school with her, I would mock her smug, superficial display of empty-headed triviality as well. If that makes me cruel, so be it. This video is a crime against music. If it had been kept as a private curiosity for her family, I would have no complaint. I would in fact never heard of it. If it had been found and disseminated against her will, I would be sympathetic. But she released this, and is reaping the benefits as well as the humiliation. Only the latter is well-deserved.
That's more than a bit harsh. No one deserves to be bullied. She's a kid. She was chasing a dream. I'll cut her a little slack for that, but very little.
She's, unfortunately, a product of the recent vapid, self-centered drivel that kids are fed from a lot of their TV shows and kid-oriented marketing. The Bratz Dolls, for instance, are a perfect example, and they are an abhorrent creation. Hannah Montana, is another example (and pox on our culture). Kids are led to believe that it's okay to be superficial brats and that they should strive to be famous.
When I was a kid, I watched Doogie Howser, MD. When I watched that, I dreamed of what it'd be like to be a doctor. Kids these days watch bullshit like Hannah Montana. If you ask many of them what they'd like to be, they'll say "famous."
So, it's no wonder that young, absolutely talentless Rebecca thought that she should purse a life of fame. She was likely deluded by the media she digested as well as her parents (seems like it was mainly her mom) to believe that not only was she talented, but that she deserved to be famous.
Rather than doing the responsible, good parent thing and telling her talentless child that she should concentrate on school and save the stardom-seeking for after graduation, her mother, instead, decided to indulge her child's delusions and buy her fame by paying this company to make her kid a star.
The result? Her kid became famous, sort of, for being really, really bad. Like, monumentally horrible. Thus, she's gotten ridiculed all over the internet, TV, radio, and also at school. That's a shitty thing for anyone, especially a kid, to have to go through.
So, I mostly blame the mother for this situation. She seems, from what I've read, to be a bit like those crazy moms from the "Pageant Mom" shows. And, for all I know, Rebecca is a bit of a drama queen and is exaggerating the bullying just to get out of school and focus more on her "career." I can't be sure but it does seem suspicious to me that her 15 minutes seemed to be over and now this story and her TV interview come out which, coincidentally, coincide with her releasing a new album.
Sad that some kids/people become obsessed with being famous. Even more sad when their parents see them as a gravy train and indulge those delusions and try to BUY that fame.
Having said all that, I still don't condone the actions of the bullies, but her mother is partially to blame for creating this monster and then putting her child in such a contentious environment.
ETA: Just realized that I wrote "coincidentally coincides" and, as grammatically shameful as that is, I haven't been able to figure out how to reword my way out of it.
