Bullying drove Rebecca Black to enter homeschooling

[The Straight Story]

Bullying drove Rebecca Black to enter homeschooling

Even celebrities aren’t exempt from school bullying. Such was the case with “Friday” songbird Rebecca Black, whose cheesy tune hit airwaves earlier this year and was quickly declared the “worst song ever” by many.

Speaking to ABC’s Nightline, the 14-year-old Los Angeles native said she faced so much teasing and harassment this past spring that her parents resorted to homeschooling.

“When I walk by they’ll start singing ‘Friday’ in a really nasally voice,” Black told the network. “Or, you know, they’ll be like, ‘Oh hey, Rebecca, guess what day it is?’”

Black’s mom Georgina Marquez, a teacher, agreed to take the teenager out of school because of the mean students. Additionally, Marquez didn’t want the taunting to distract Black from singing.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/11/bullying-drove-rebecca-black-to-enter-homeschooling/

[Pab Sungenis]

1. Rebecca Black wanted to be famous.

Her parents tried to buy her fame.

They bought her infamy.

Careful what you wish for, girl.

[RSillsbee]

2. I hope Rebecca Black makes a million dollars

and laughs all the way to the bank

[Logical]

4. She will have a reality TV show soon. Then fade away to nothing.

[RSillsbee]

6. But a millionaire nothing

At least her college will be paid for.

She seems like a decent kid more power to her

[Logical]

7. More "instant star" crap from this country. I am sick of it.

[JVS]

9. She'll flunk out of college and go into porn. Ten years later she'll be found in a hotel room dead..

from an overdose.

Fate is cruel for the low-grade American celebrity.

[FLPanhandle]

10. Man, I thought I was a cynic.

LOL. Great reply.

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[Whisp]

38. don't worry your little head about Rebecca's life.

:crazy:

fate is also cruel for low grade regular walk of life schumcks too

[Whisp]

21. me too. picking on a kid like she has been, by adults too, is disgusting.

there is enough real shit to be angry about but I guess easy targets are... easy.

[chrisa]

33. Whenever normal people begin to sound like 4Chan trolls, it's a bit scary.

[whathehell]

3. At 14, she's not responsible for what her parents did...The little shits are jealous. n/t

[Xithras]

34. Every celebrity has their detractors.

It's part of being famous. Just Google the 10 billion Justin Beiber photoshops and jokes on the Internet. Nobody is immune to it.

Some kids can handle it. Some, like Demi Lovato and apparently Rebecca Black, can't. When a kid wants to try and become famous, it's a parents job to decide whether they're mature enough to handle a million people on the Internet making fun of everything from her voice to the size of her nose.

[JVS]

5. Obviously she should follow the revenge fantasies common on DU and visit grievous bodily harm on...

those students.


I don't know if it's even fair to call this bullying. This sounds like the natural repercussions of making an ass out of yourself.

[rocktivity]

8. Her YouTube Video has 5,623 likes, 19,129 dislikes

“When I walk by they’ll start singing Friday in a really nasally voice,” Black told the network.

That's like Charles Manson complaining about his fellow inmates teasing him about having killed people!

And check this out:
$2.99 to Watch 'Friday'? Paywall Experiment Backfires

No sympathy points from here.

:eyes:
rocktivity

[October]

13. Seriously? Comparing to Manson... wtf?

[rocktivity]

17. Bad singing isn't the crime that mass murder is, of course

But I doubt you'd feel sorry for Manson if he said that it was time for people to lighten up about it.

There's a good reason why Rebecca's schoolmates sing Friday "very nasally" -- because she does, too.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[October]

36. She's just a kid. The Manson analogy is absurd.

/nt

[whathehell]

39. Um..Yes. My thoughts exactly.

And we wonder why kids are mean?:eyes:

[chrisa]

25. She's 14 years old. Do you really expect that she would write fantastic music?

[JVS]

32. I'd expect her to make no music video at all. Then there wouldn't be any problem.

[negativenihil]

37. lol

she didn't write anything. the song was part of a package from this company that does these sorts of music video things for rich kids.

[immoderate]

11. Well, she's not Cyndi Lauper...

Technically, it's not much different from many other examples of the information glut.

Kids can be so mean.


--imm

[rocktivity]

20. Unlike Madonna and her granddaughter Lady Gaga

Cyndi backed up her style with substance.

:thumbsup:
rocktivity

[immoderate]

23. Nobody talks about Britney any more...

--imm

[backscatter712]

12. She should take after Wil Wheaton.

The character Wesley Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation wasn't well received, for good reason - Wil himself said that the lines he was given were just gawd-awful.

But Wil took it in stride, and these days, he's a geek hero. He hangs out on Reddit, is a big gamer geek, goes to events like E3, and is generally well regarded by just about everyone.

Or maybe Dweezil and Moon Unit Zappa, who are awesome, well-rounded individuals, who got no end of notoriety in the press solely because of their names. They turned into awesome people.

Hey, she's a young teenager, didn't really know better. Saying that Friday should fuck things up for her for the rest of her life is idiotic. For all we know, she could blow us all away with something utterly cool in the future.

[Bosso 63]

15. I appreciate a hopeful perspective toward the kid.

The song is awful, but she is just a kid.
I will reserve my jaded cynicism for more deserving targets, and Lord knows we are living in a target rich environment.

[backscatter712]

28. Bingo.

It's just a song. And Rebecca Black's just a kid.

We've got better things to worry about.

[dsc]

18. Wil is a class act

I had a big ole crush on him as Wesley even as his lines were god awful. His blog and twitter feed are hilarious and well written.

[chrisa]

27. Wil Wheaton also likes to hang out at PAX. A true nerd's hero!

[Lance_Boyle]

31. And slashdot.

He's come a long way. And I wasn't even a Wesley hater!

[TwilightGardener]

14. That's not bullying. That's HECKLING--get famous for a crappy song,

expect people to make fun of you.

[Bluebear]

16. She couldn't smoke at school either.

[jwirr]

19. My 10 year old grandson was telling me about his class mates who

are always using language to describe gays and girls. He listed at least 12 words and phrases they used all the time. The usual shit we hear all too often. Then he made me proud - he told me that he wants nothing to do with them and that he just has two friends left that do not talk like this. I told him the next time they spout off he should just say to them "you are so immature" and turn his back on them. I am not so sure that is good advice but it was the right advice. Knowing our community I doubt that these kid's parents even know they are talking like this. They are getting it passed on from other older kids. And the worst part is that we have excellent anti-bullying programs in our schools. I don't know what is with these kids today.

[flvegan]

22. And yet Nickelback still makes music.

Ms. Black should just learn to turn and say, "might be a shit song, but it made me a nice bit of cash, morons" Hell, the band Rush made a decades long career out of that very mantra.

[Strelnikov_]

41. Now you've crossed the line

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azc_FNZXaRw

[chrisa]

24. Gee. This sure makes me proud to be a human.

It was a cheesy song, but she's 14 years old. wtf do people expect?

I think she has a serious career ahead of her. People are just jealous idiots who would gladly be in her shoes right now. That's how it goes - if you're jealous of somebody, attack them and try to bring them down to your level. I'm an unintentional expert of this now, unfortunately :eyes:.

[whathehell]

40. Agreed...You might extend that to

being a DUer, too, considering all the uncharitable

comments coming from our kind adult progressive community.:eyes:

[Lucinda]

26. Wow...looks like we have some "grown up" bullies right here on this thread. n/t

[Dreamer Tatum]

29. Calling her tune "cheesy" in an article about her being bullied?

I don't blame her or her parents. People are assholes nowadays.

[Garion_55]

35. I blame the parents

that song was awful. they should have known it was awful. and they should have known that sticking their 12 year old daughter in a crappy song for the whole world to see would lead to her getting savaged for years to come.

not to mention how many pervs watched their 12 year old daughter and got off on it.

blame falls totally on the parents. keep your kids off the internet!

[Morning Dew]

42. Ghyslain Raza left school too - wound up in a psych ward - now he's in law school.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/story-behind-the-star-wars-kid-20110805-1ie0k.html

Star Wars Kid video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU

Then again, he didn't upload the thing himself either.