hope your weekend was fun fun fun fun

OK.  Enough now.  Leave Rebecca Black alone.  She is just a 13-year-old kid who somehow managed to get caught in the middle of the worst music video ever; how would you like to be in her shoes?

Here is what she told The Daily Beast about the haters:

“Those hurtful comments really shocked me,” Black said yesterday in her first interview since the song came to dominate a certain quadrant of popular culture and crack the iTunes Top 100 singles chart this week, besting the likes of Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber. “At times, it feels like I’m being cyberbullied.”

More from that article:

Things, of course, got ugly with an outpouring of YouTube commenter Haterade that stunned Black and Ark Music gave her the choice to strike “Friday” from the site. Instead, she stuck to her guns. “I decided not to give the haters the satisfaction that they got me so bad I gave up,” Black said.

 As to the ridiculous song itself:

Acing a casting-call audition, Black was invited to record one of two songs label heads had written for her. And, as part of a $2,000 package her mother paid for, they offered to produce an accompanying video in a bid to make a splash on YouTube. The song she picked: “Friday.”

“I didn’t write it at all,” Black said, clearing up a major misconception. “The other song was about adult love–I haven’t experienced that yet. ‘Friday’ is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in that song.”  

Black says she is donating the proceeds to Japan relief funds.  You've gotta like that.  As to her mom, for what it's worth:

“A few times, when I heard some of the lyrics, I was like, ‘That doesn’t make sense,’” Kelly (her mother) recalled. “Rebecca said, ‘I sang it as they wrote it, Mom.’ So I didn’t micromanage it."

Maybe if she had known what was about to happen to her daughter, she might have gone for a whole lot of micromanaging, but who could have expected such a thing?

Meanwhile, back here in LF...

E3H:  Some of you have portfolios due on Friday (and the rest will bring goodies!); Anouilh's Antigone is due tomorrow; ESC papers should have had at least two conferenced drafts by now, preferably three.

E2CP:  Hey everyone: if things are missing, get me them tonight!!!  Most missing assignments:  DOAS mini-essays, Catcher 1 (What do we learn about H from conversations with Spencer and Mrs. Morrow?), Catcher 2 (What do we learn about H from the Sally Hayes scene?), Finals review.

Drama:  Your HW for vacation is to memorize your parts for the play.  Your HW for tonight is Exercise 3.5.