Rebecca Black (YouTube)

According to the Ark Music Factory profile page, Rebecca Black is a 13-year-old girl who is signed to their independent record label.

But she’s better known on the web as a YouTube sensation popularized by Tosh.0, who’s making her rounds on the viral circuit with her new song “Friday.” And after watching the opening verse of the video, it’s no surprise why.

In Slick Rick fashion, Black opens with a narrative which outlines her daily routine right down to her breakfast choice (cereal in a bowl).

She enthusiastically sings auto-tuned verse after verse without the slightest concern for rhyming or keeping any type of syllabic rhythm. In fact, the only line in which she attempts a rhyme is a line in which the clever girl rhymes “seat” with “seat.”

But a comedic lack of skill alone does not a viral video make. If you couple that lack of skill with enough delusion to hire an entire cast and production to flaunt said lack of skill, you’ve got pure YouTube genius.

The song was clearly an attempt to become the anthem for a new generation of adolescents who knew how to have fun.

The type of generation who, in a fit of excitement, would dedicate an entire line of a song to saying the word “fun” over and over again.

The same type of underage generation who, while drunk off of the excitement of the weekend, would car jack their parents’ Sebring convertible, speed down the highway surrounded by friends donning shiny braces, and lose all grammatical control, as evidenced by the line, “We we we so excited, we so excited.”

The song tackles important teen topics such as the ever perplexing question of which seat to inhabit in a car (a problem resolved by laymen through a game of “shotgun”), the days which precede and succeed Friday (which according to Black happen to be Thursday, Saturday and Sunday), and the sights we may potentially encounter while “cruising” (lanes, other cars, and if you’re lucky, a school bus).

Based on the comments on her YouTube video, the general tone about the quality of her art is one of hilarity and ridicule. However, as the old adage states, “Any publicity is good publicity” and publicity abounds on her video as it has just soared past the 3 million viewer mark on YouTube.

Rebecca Black should realize that the public is not laughing at her, in fact, they are laughing with her, unless of course, in her delusional state, she cannot see the benefit of having such a monumental amount of instant fame.

And if she cannot see, nor realize any benefit from this fame, she can always blame her parents for perpetuating her delusion with the rampant reassurance commonly doled out from the upper class to their talentless children.

Regardless of how Rebecca Black decides to react to her fame, one thing is certain. We the public are eagerly awaiting her sequel, “Saturday.”

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