Post by Admin on Apr 23, 2021 2:40:20 GMT
Rebecca Black performs “Girlfriend” at the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards.
The 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards honor media for fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues. Since its inception in 1990, the GLAAD Media Awards have grown to be the most visible annual LGBTQ awards show in the world, sending powerful messages of acceptance to audiences globally. The 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards are presented by Gilead, Hyundai, and Ketel One Family Made Vodka.
It was the spring of 2011 when Rebecca Black's first single, Friday, was released on YouTube, breaking unsuspected records for virality and hateful comments on the platform . What began as a gift from her parents and a beautiful experience - a trip to a Los Angeles studio where she recorded her first song and video clip with her friends - would end up as any teenager's worst nightmare when the video exploded in Youtube. Black, who was 13 years old at the time, saw the song he had been so excited about described in international media headlines such as the BBC or the Los Angeles Times as "the worst song ever." An ambitious title that the Internet allowed to fall without consequences on a girl who became a target of haters and that, in reality, what it did hide was one of the most scandalous cases of digital child bullying in the history of 2.0.
And what happened to that girl who sang to Friday, excited to finally go out with her friends? Did you finally decide to sit in the front or back seat? Well, after some other song, released here and there shyly, and an EP in 2017, she reappeared as a contestant on the Fox program The Four in 2018, addressing in front of the cameras the pain and hard struggle she had to go through. blame for the wicked dynamics of digital media. Although as a good example of generation Z, Black has known how to use the buzz that generated her fleeting derision in the history of pop to turn it into a powerful asset that works in her favor.