Rebecca Black

Wikipedia’s decision to black its site out in protest against SOPA has generally been greeted with enthusiastic support from around the web. The truth is, whether or not you admit it, some of us are feeling a little lost without the world’s most popular tool for settling bar fights and ...

Remember Rebecca Black? The girl that turned Friday into something more than just another day of the week? That one. The meme that never seemed to go away.Some of the best things that came out of the Black world were the parodies.You may have thought we had gotten ...

Remember when that "Friday" music video by Rebecca Black hit YouTube? It somehow seemed to plague the Suggestions list for any video you decided to watch. Personally, I have never been a huge fan of popular music, so it really used to annoy me. Certainly it annoyed lots of other ...

YouTube is a great medium. It has allowed many of us to chase dreams that once seemed lost and explore new aspects of ourselves. The video sharing site's tagline is "broadcast yourself" -- but let's face it: not everything needs a public platform. Rebecca Black's song certainly didn't need one. ...

Rebecca Black, the 13-year old singer who has been widely panned for singing "the worst song ever", is laughing all the way to the bank. Billboard.com has estimated that the singer is making about US$27 000 per week off the song, and is likely to make even more once she ...

It's been a fun week for memes with budding pop stars sensationalising the inner workings of the teenage mind on a Friday, to a bullied schoolkid unleashing a motherload of fury against his assailant with some signature Streetfighter moves, to blocking Charlie Sheen - because frankly, we've had enough of Charlie ...

Be careful what you wish for. That seems to be the bottom line when it comes to the sorry tale of Rebecca Black and her already disastrous pop career.When the young songstress woke up on Monday morning, her YouTube song "Friday" had only had 10 000 hits. But by the ...