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Post by Admin on Oct 27, 2019 1:11:57 GMT
 Rebecca Black is all grown up and making it clear on "Sweetheart," premiering exclusively on Billboard today (Oct. 24). The sassy tune finds the 22-year-old reclaiming her sensuality as she brushes off men who prefer submissive women than a dominant force. "Don't call me a sweetheart, s--t like that makes my skin crawl / Bury that girl in the backyard, betcha didn't think I'd take you that far," Black cheekily coos on the chorus atop a snapping melody.  "I love seeing women, especially in pop, be so unafraid to say what's on their minds and share the experiences they've been going through," Black tells Billboard. "Obviously this has been happening throughout our whole entertainment industry. But I have definitely felt this newer sense of empowerment."  "One thing that I have just always felt [overwhelmed by] is having to be sweet and kind and strong and nice and pretty. And 'Sweetheart' is me saying 'No, I'm done with that.' I'm not who I was anymore and I'll never be that." |
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Post by Admin on Oct 30, 2019 18:13:43 GMT
Almost a decade later, we met with Black for this episode of In The Know: Profiles to see what she's been working on since and how she has prepared herself to re-enter the spotlight as a singer once again — to hopefully more positive reviews.
"That song changed my life in virtually every way. I was in no way ready to start, like, what was going to be my career," Black told In The Know. "I was being a 13-year-old."
"The biggest thing on my mind was how people were perceiving me," Black said. "The next, I guess, thing in my life became, how do I have some sense of normalcy?"
"When I was 16, I started my YouTube channel as something that was, like, fully me — and I'm going to have fun with it."
Part of that became reckoning with "Friday." Her third most popular video is a follow-up song called "Saturday" and the next most popular is a reaction video to the original song.
"For a long time I didn't really have a place where I felt I could be, just, safe," Black said. "I definitely still don't know who I am, and I definitely don't have everything figured out — but, I think I've just been able to make things that I really believe in, and that I really resonate with, and that are just me."
A lot has changed since the world first met her in 2011. Black now lives on her own in Los Angeles and is working on projects she considers to be more real and authentic than what she's known for.
"You don't have to aspire to be like, someone — you shouldn't," said Black. "So many people will tell you, 'Just be you!' But that is hard! Be proud of who you are, be proud of where you come from and what you believe and the person you are, and then it becomes easier to be you."
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