Rebecca Black scored a much-maligned hit at the age of 13 with 'Friday.' Now 25, she is finally releasing her debut album. We talked with her about what happened in between.
: Yeah. That's almost exactly half my life ago, strangely.Oh, my gosh. So you're 25 and you were, what, 13? So what happened in between?
A lot of people loved"Friday." A lot of people hated it. So I think for you, it seemed to be the thing that was going to define you for a long time. At some point, did you get to the stage in your head where you're like,"I've got to shed that?" Or did you always think,"Well, it's the thing that put me on the map?"
Oh, it was such a crazy time of incredible highs and incredible lows. Like, I would spend the morning reading everything that was being said about me on the internet, and then I would get picked up and driven to somewhere in the Valley to shoot the Katy Perry music video. Or win a Teen Choice Award, which as a 13-year-old is, like, the biggest achievement.I think that the actual best thing that came out of it was it put me to the place that I am now.
I know looking back that, as an 18-year-old, as a 16-year-old, as a 23-year-old, I was desperate to put out a full-length album. Especially as somebody who enjoys music and is so interested in music culture as I am, I have always died to express myself in that way ... but as an independent artist for a long time, it was hard to convince anybody that it was even worth it for me to do that. Of course, I guess I could have just put out something on SoundCloud and called it a day.
Totally, totally. The song has a lot to do with my own relationship with myself and the ways in which I speak to myself, and those relationships I've had — oh, it's so exciting to get to talk about this!
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