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Brittany talks Valentine’s Day today including a video from Team Coco called Celebrity Flirt Roulette.
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Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
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When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
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Rebecca Black was interviewed this week, where she talked about her crazy 2011. She discussed that although some people loved her song “Friday,” other people hated it, and that hatred was passed along to her personally.
“I honestly don’t know. I mean I can understand not liking the video as everyone has their own opinions,” said Rebecca Black on the Today show. “Some people have gone to some crazy extremes which I don’t understand.”
Hated or not, nobody can deny Rebecca was popular in 2011. ”Rebecca Black” placed No. 1 on the Google Zeitgeist, the list of the fastest rising searches of the year, and “Friday” being named the most-watched YouTube video of 2011.
“They’re definitely great lists to be on,” Rebecca says. “I don’t think it’s really sunk in yet that this little kid from Orange County is on the top of Google Zeitgeist and YouTube.”
Do you think Rebecca will still be around in 2012?
While performing in Australia, Rebecca Black did an interview to warn people about YouTube.
“What you put on there is permanent, so make sure you have very much pride in what you put on,” Black told news.com.au.
“You never know what’s going to happen. It could get two views or it could get a million views.”
In the months since, “Friday” has gone to notch up more than 167 million views and Black has become the target of death threats.
Nevertheless, things seem to be working out for Rebecca.
Rebecca Black is proving she can last longer than 15 minutes. The YouTube star has been lured to Australia by a mobile phone company called Telstra.
Black tweeted, “I’m coming to Australia to perform live thanks to Telstra!! This is the best thing since microwaveable popcorn.”
The full details of what Black will be doing in “Down Under” haven’t been released.
This is the second piece of good news for Black, with the possibility of her releasing her debut album next month.
You can now sleep better at night, Rebecca Black’s video for “Friday” is back on YouTube.
On Friday, Black asked her 158,000 YouTube subscribers, “So, you know what today is, right?” She later explains that “Friday” would be making its triumphant return to YouTube.
The video was forced to be taken down after Ark Music launched a copyright battle over “Friday.” It seems both sides have reached an agreement, and “Friday” will continue to live on YouTube.
So to celebrate, here’s “Friday”.
Though most commonly known as “the girl in pink” from the viral YouTube video that is Rebecca Black’s “Friday,” this 14-year-old is making it clear that she has much more to offer than just a couple awkward dance moves.
“For me I grew up in a household where we all make jokes about each other and laugh about ourselves,” Benni Cinkle, a.k.a. “That Girl in Pink,” explains to andPOP. “So it wasn’t that hard for me to be able to joke [about people] saying mean things or making fun of me…I know that I didn’t dance the best in that video and so I know that when they’re saying I’m a bad dancer, they can judge that based on the dancing. And if I had to judge myself just based on that dancing I would say I’m a bad dancer too, so I’m not going to get mad at them for judging just what they saw of me.”
Soon after, Cinkle went on to start her own not-for-profit organization, and named it none other than “That Girl in Pink Foundation,” because she recognized that is how she was known to the public from the very beginning. “The biggest fan page that I had on Facebook [not run by myself] was that girl in pink who danced awkwardly,” says Cinkle. “So I was like well why don’t we just call my non-profit that, since people seem to know the name already!”
With the help of her mother, a professional in business with knowledge of non-profit organizations, Cinkle launched her organization two months ago with the purpose of raising money and awareness for issues that teenagers face daily, including teen depression, child violence, sexual abuse, bullying, and cyber-bulling. On September 1, Cinkle released her first single and music video, entitled, “Can You See Me Now,” whereby 20 per cent of the profits will go towards her organization.
“The album is nothing like ‘Friday,” she says. “It’s got ballads, dance songs, everything.”
Next up for Black? “Grammys, touring, or movies,” she says, though there are no tour plans (or Grammy or movies, for that matter) in the works yet. “I’d love to be in Twilight, and I can’t be in Harry Potter anymore, which sucks.”
It will be interesting to see if Black can make the crossover from a joke to a credible artist.
This is an awesome joke and proof that any song can sound decent if sung with talent. Legendary singer “Bob Dylan” has covered Rebecca Black’s “My Moment.”
“You knew it all along, I was afraid of you,” sings Bob; “Thought I couldn’t be myself, you tried to be my friend.”
Nobody can say Black’s song is the greatest lyrics ever, but they sound pretty cool coming from this Bob alike.
Rebecca Black surprised everyone last night with a performance on America’s Got Talent. Black did a mashup of “Friday” and her new single “My Moment.”
This performance is on the heels of Rebecca announcing she is leaving school to focus on her singing career, and after she received harassment from her peers at school.
“When I walk by they’ll start singing ‘Friday’ in a really nasally voice,” she told ABC News. “Or, you know, they’ll be like, ‘Oh hey, Rebecca, guess what day it is?’”
Based on this video, we think Rebecca should learn to deal with bullies and stay in school. Although she seems like a nice girl, we aren’t sure she’s got the “talent” to last very long in the music business.
Rebecca told ABC News, “When I walk by they’ll start singing ‘Friday’ in a really nasally voice … Or, you know, they’ll be like, ‘Oh hey, Rebecca, guess what day it is?’”
Her homeschooling will now allow the singer to focus on her singing career.
Rebecca – Please don’t forget about your education. There is a STRONG possibility this singing thing may not work out. So you may want to have a backup plan. Here’s a PSA which really drives home that message.
The idea for the song is this is her “moment” (her 15 minutes of fame). The song is cheesy and the music video matches the song. Although the video is step up from her previous effort as far as quality, the whole effort is an insult to credible artists around the world.
If this is her strategy to become a legitimate pop star, we think she may have some major obstacles. But as far as a pop culture experiment and providing the world a great laugh, Rebecca nobody is better than you.
Enjoy your extended 15 minutes of fame!
Because you loved “Friday” so much, Rebecca Black is coming back with a new music video called “My Moment.” Black is hard “at work” producing the video as we speak, and it’s scheduled to be released July 18 on her YouTube page.
And that’s not all! Hollyscoop.com reports Black is also in the studio putting the finishing touches on a 5 track EP which will be out in August.
Let’s hope she can continue to make a complete fool out of herself because Rebecca Black stories are amazing at getting andPOP web traffic.
Rebecca Black’s infamous ‘Friday’ music video has been pulled from YouTube, reports Billboard.
The video, which received more than 160 million views and 3 million ‘dislikes,’ is no longer available due to a “copyright claim by Rebecca Black.”
Earlier this week, Ark Music Factory, which is the company Black’s parents paid $4,000 to produce the song and video, began charging viewers $2.99 to watch the clip.
Black’s spokesman says the 13-year-old and her team team then sent a takedown notice to YouTube, because of a dispute with the firm.
Lawyers for Black and Ark Music have been fighting over who owns the rights to the song and video, and have removed it until the issues are resolved.
This is actually a blessing in disguise – maybe they will never, ever, put it back onto the internet? And we can all move on and live happy lives.
‘Coldplay’ will be releasing a new single this week, reports MTV News.
The british band’s newest material is from three years ago, when they released ‘Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends’ in 2008. But now, a new single is set to drop on Friday.
The new single, titled ‘Every Teardrop is a Waterfall,’ will debut this Friday, which coincidentally, is also the same day they kick off their summer tour in Germany.
The band’s drummer, Will Champion, released a statement on the band’s official site, saying:
“Dear Friends, We’re about to play a bunch of summer festivals so it’s as good a time as any to put out a new song. “Evert Teardrop is a Waterfall” will be available digitally on Friday June 3rd at 12pm (BST), except in the UK where it’ll come out on the stroke of midnight between Satruday 4th and Sunday 5th June. We’ll also stream it here on Friday and give it a run out at Rock Im park. Love, Will”.
It’s been so long since they released new music, so I know many are excited about this. I find making fans wait that long is modern-day torture, I mean, three years is a long time. Gaga releases a new single every day. Hopefully they’ve spent their time perfecting the new album, though.
We have a new contender for the worst song of the year. Becuase Rebecca Black’s “Friday” wasn’t bad enough, “Real Housewives of New York” star Simon van Kempen has entered the running to make his own terrible tune called “I Am Real.”
“I thought ‘I Am Real’ is a fun song with lyrics that suit me to a ‘T,’” Simon tells PopEater. “It’s cheeky and catchy and captures my four years on reality TV.”
In actuality it’s a really poorly written and produced song, and we hope it’s only a joke. And it’s actually less professional than Rebecca’s song – at least she had a real music video.
Oh the price of fame. YouTube sensation Rebecca Black has been made the target of death threats reports The Smoking Gun.
The Anaheim Police Department is probing “two active cases” that originated in Los Angeles, according to Sergeant Rick Martinez, a police spokesman.
One threat was sent by e-mail to a production company and the other “was a telephonic threat relayed to her manager,” according to Martinez, who added that he thought one of the communications contained a death threat.
Granted her song “Friday” is annoying, but to threaten the life of a 13 year old girl is pretty low. Is it someone who is jealous or just insane? Probably both.
You may have thought that several weeks after going viral, Rebecca Black would be edging back into the obscurity from which she came, but it seems as though the teenage singing phenomenon isn’t going anywhere just yet.
CNN reports that the 13-year-old singer, who was widely criticized for the heavy use of auto-tune and the awkward music video for her song ‘Friday,’ will have the YouTube hit covered by the cast of Glee on an upcoming episode of the Fox series.
But don’t expect the likes of Rachel Berry or Mercedes Jones to sing the viral tune. Even though the video depicted Black painting the town red with her female friends, the ladies of Glee won’t be the ones singing her song. Instead, Gleeks can expect the boys, Artie, Sam and Puck to get down with Black’s tune.
And if one cover wasn’t enough for you, three of the voices behind Glee‘s Warbler’s team, also spoke to Celebuzz about doing singing a Rebecca Black original. President Eli Seidman, business manager Evan Powell and historian Kent McCann, gushed (?) about the lyrical work of art.
“I will hereby go on record saying that that is just a masterpiece,” said Powell. “I don’t know what thought process went through her head, well that’s mean I shouldn’t say that.”
“I keep singing it even though I don’t want to, ” said Seidman, “I’m sure that song is playing on the way to hell, just blasting.”
“I feel kind of bad for her, she’s famous because she sucks,” said McCann.
“The problem is, it’s hard to touch perfection, ” added Powell. “Everything about it, it’s like fine art, it should be hung in a museum.”
Okay, so maybe they weren’t gushing, but what does Rebecca Black care? The singer has already endured a number of scalding criticisms, and will finally end the roller coaster ride that is ‘Friday,’ on a gleeful note.
“It’s Wednesday, Wednesday, gotta get down on Wednesay…” Nope, it just doesn’t work the same way. Oh well!
Rebecca Black has done the unthinkable – according to Gossip Cop, Black’s awesome*cough* music video for “Friday,” has officially become the most disliked video on YouTube in the site’s history, surpassing Justin Bieber’s “Baby” music video’s 1.16 million “dislikes”, with 1.17 million. Congrats, Rebecca, you officially have more haters than Justin Bieber! Now that’s an accomplishment.
However, Bieber still beats black in the fan department, with his 500 million views trumping Black’s mere 64 million.
Apparently, though, none of this is stopping Black from getting a recording contract of her own. Perez Hilton reported that while on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show this past Thursday, Ms. Black expressed how “overwhelmed by the sudden burst of attention” her and her daughter are, so Seacrest hooked the singer up with Debra Baum, a manager from DB Entertainment.
Just because she’s signed doesn’t mean that she will be able to sing any better…although I will give the girl credit, her two-second rendition of the American national anthem on Good Morning America was not terrible! She might not be Christina Aguilera, but it didn’t make my ears bleed. That’s a start, right?
Check out Black singing the national anthem here, and be sure to head over to her “Friday” music video on YouTube and “dislike” or “like” it! And remember people, yesterday was Tuesday, today is Wednesday, tomorrow is Thursday, and the day after that is FRIDAY! Just in case you forgot.
Viral video sensation Rebecca Black is reportedly working on a new song with co-writers Ark Music Factory.
Perez Hilton reports that the “Friday” singer is currently in the studio writing with her collaborators and that we should expect the new project soon.
Black tweeted: “We’re currently writing another song…it does not have to do with weekdays, or months, or numbers or colors. Throwin’ that out there.”
Well that’s a relief! We think one educational song per career is a good limit.
Check out Rebecca’s current LOLarious hit, “Friday,” below.
