Nearly a decade afterRebecca Blackreleased her song “Friday,” she is opening up about what she’d tell her teenage self.
“9 years ago today a music video for a song called ‘friday’ was uploaded to the internet,” Black, now 22, wrote in amessage on Twitter. “Above all things, I just wish I could go back and talk to my 13-year-old self who was terribly ashamed of herself and afraid of the world. To my 15-year-old self who felt like she had nobody to talk to about the depression she faced. To my 17-year-old self who would get to school only to get food thrown at her and her friends.”
“To my 19-year-old self who had almost every producer/songwriter tell me that they’d never work with me,” she continued. “Hell, to myself a few days ago who felt disgusting when she looked in the mirror!”
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“And so, here we go! This might be a weird thing to post but the honesty feels good if nothing else,” she concluded.
Inanother tweet, she retweeted a GIF from the music video, writing, “9 YEARS. what a trip.”
“One minute, I was a normal girl and then, in the next, millions of people know who I was and they were ruthless in hurling the most vile words my way,” shewrote in an essayfor NBC News’ Think in October 2017.
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“In my life, there were people I personally knew at school and in my inner circle who verbally abused me,” she said. “But then there were also complete strangers from all around the world using social media to deride me, degrade me and even worse; some people threatened my life.”
But the negative attention hasn’t stopped Black from pursuing music.
The singerauditionedonThe Fourin 2018, performing *NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” and going up against another contestant with Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn” before being sent home.
In October 2019, she released her latest single, titled “Sweetheart.” Black also regularly posts to her YouTube channel.
source: people.com
