Rebecca Black Could Bring About World Peace

I don't believe a single hippie or music fanatic that has ever said that their music (many times the Grateful Dead or Phish. It's always some jam band that "you totally have to hear live.") could bring about "world peace" if everyone just listened to it.


It's seemed as if it was a lazy, inflated swoop statement. Until now.


According to Billboard, teen (ahem) sensation Rebecca Black will release a new music video July 18 (on Monday, damn) on her YouTube channel. The song is called "My Moment," and details the rise to Black's "stardom."


"It's a fairytale story, but it happened in real life," Black said in a statement.


Black, 14, is also planning a five-song EP for early August.

This is the face of freedom, America. Fun fun fun fun.

If you read this blog regularly, then you are probably asking why I am writing about Rebecca Black.


I believe the music of Rebecca Black is the closest to unifying everyone in the world — or at least the United States — under a single flag.


I challenge the reader to consider the worst song ever. It doesn't matter what genre, artist, year or label. It needs to be two things:


1) Massively produced so that more than 1,000 people have heard it, and
2) You hate it.


Okay, now that you have it in your head, compare it to Rebecca Black's "Friday." While the other song makes you furious, "Friday" is one of those rare occurrences of something so bad that it is good (see Tommy Wiseau's "The Room").


I know I'm not breaking any new ground here whatsoever. But if several people can have a positive reaction out of something so negative, what can't we accomplish?


Which is why I look forward to "My Moment." It has the opportunity to, once again, prove that Democrats and Republicans can dance to the same linear tune in full ironic merriment.


Again, I don't mean to pick on Rebecca Black. In fact, I could see most 7th and 8th graders actually liking her song if she were to perform it at a high school talent show. But she has stepped into the major label limelight, and should expect such treatment.


If anything, we should be thanking her.