Rebecca Black, the 13-year-old YouTube phenom, admitted Friday that she broke down when she first read that critics were pinning her hit tune as the "Worst Song Ever."
"At first, when I first saw all these nasty comments, I did cry," Black said on "Good Morning America".
"I felt like this was my fault. And I shouldn't have done this, and this is all because of me," the Orange County eighth-grader said of "Friday," the song that currently has been viewed more than 17 million times on YouTube. "And now I don't feel that way."
To what nasty comments was she referring? It's hard to know precisely. There have been so many.
Hypervocal.com: "Truly, undeniably awful."
URLesque: "This song by Rebecca Black has to be the worst song ever written, composed, sung out loud or turned into a video."
SF Gate: "what may be the ultimate combination of horrible lyrics, horrible songwriting, horrible auto-tuning (apparently to hide horrible singing) ... horrible dancing and horrible horribleness. It's so horrible, people are wondering whether the production is real or if it's an elaborate joke."
The worst thing Black said she read, however, was a comment that said, "I hope you cut yourself and I hope you get an eating disorder so you'll look pretty, and I hope you go cut and die." [who knows, maybe you're the one who wrote this]
