Perspective

[filkertom]

Rebecca Black has received death threats.

Look, "Friday" is a very catchy song with very banal lyrics. It can be done well, in a ironic-knowing-wink sort of way, such as when Stephen Colbert and Taylor Hicks sang it with Jimmy Fallon. But it's fluff. It's nothing.

Death threats!? Over this?

Whoever you are, you are really, really making something out of nothing. She's a thirteen year old girl. If you had the kind of exposure she's had, you'd be on top of the world, no matter the source. And, action movies aside, violence never solves anything. Especially viral video.

On top of which, you obviously have never heard Sheena Easton.

What musical artist could you happily never hear again?

Comments

[zorya-thinks.livejournal.com]

Gaah, I had to read all the comments. Now I have remembered two songs that make me gag, "Honey" as sung by Bobby Goldsboro and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" as sung by Roberta Flack Bleech! Now I have to wash my brain.

[capplor.livejournal.com]

But Peg Seeger's version of "First time..." is a lovely little number. & The Austin Lounge Lizards take on Honey almost made the song worth listening to.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I like to think my version of "Honey" takes some of the sting out of it....