Gotta Get Down

JAMIE NGUYEN
Staff Writer
In the age of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, viral hits quickly become overnight wonders. Talent is no longer a necessity; now it only takes money and good publicity.
Meet Rebecca Black, who paid $4,000 for the rights of two songs and to shoot a low budget video that to date has 98,859,889 views. She offers insightful information, from cleverly stating the days of the week to contemplating whether she should choose the seat in the front or the back (which is irrelevant when we see that 13-year-olds are now driving Porsches and “partyin’ partyin’”).
Although Black is the most popular of the pre-teen pop stars, 12-year-old Jenna Rose is catching up with her single, “My Jeans,” in which she claims Hannah Montana and Ashley Tisdale are sporting her jeans.The songs share a repetitive beat complemented with meaningless and trite lyrics.
It’s a sad wonder that production companies willingly exploit young girls to be publicly humiliated in order for them to make a quick buck. Plagued with bad lyrics and autotuned singing, these “pop stars” will never gain anything but more dislikes on YouTube. Somebody, please bring back the 90’s!