The Plague is no match for The Fever

 

Rebecca Black, 13, tries to become the next Justin Bieber via YouTube. The thing is she just totally sucks and has absolutely no musical talent. None, zip, nada. Sadly lightening can't strike twice no matter how rich your mommy and daddy are. The ''Black Plague'' is no match for the ''Bieber Fever''

Money can truly buy you anything in today's world. It can buy you a nice car, fancy clothes and even millions of views on YouTube. The only thing that it can't buy you: genuine fame based off ACTUAL talent. You either got talent or you don't. Case in point: Rebecca Black. 

Black, who hails from Anaheim Hills, California, became an overnight YouTube sensation with her obnoxiously catchy ''Friday'' music video. The video, which debuted on YouTube in mid February,  reached new heights after it was launched into an all out social media frenzy in early March. The video was  tweeted, facebooked and blogged about by literally everyone and their mother.  From tweens to senior citizens, Black's video garnered 2.8 million views the week of March 11 alone. To date, the video has over 100 million views. The reason for all the hoopla is simple. The video is like a extremely entertaining train wreck disguised in the form of a amusing cheesy pop video with loud annoying colors, awkward pre teen dancing and an hilarious  overdose of autotune. You know you shouldn't be watching yet your eyes are fixated and you just can't turn away. The fact that the song has scholarly lyrics such as ''Yesterday was Thursday. Today is Friday. Tomorrow is Saturday. Sunday comes afterwards. '' makes it just that much more painfully addictive.

 Black's attempts to sway people to be apart of ''The Black Plague'' with her horrendous pop single. 

The song and video for ''Friday'' was created by Ark Music Factory. Ark Music Factory is a LA based music company that churns out 13-17 year old bubble gum pop singers who aspire to be the next big thing. The label currently holds a roster of around 12 teen singers, all of whom have their videos uploaded to YouTube but are seldom viewed and overall hype pales in comparison to Black's. It has been reported that Black's parents paid Ark Music $2 grand for their daughter to make the song and record the video. It can be fair to assume that both Rebecca and her parents saw the magic Justin Bieber had from YouTube and truely wanted to see if lightening really could strike twice and make their daughter a  bonafide star. The bottom line here is Bieber's got talent whereas Black's voice brings people to tears. Take this as a lesson learned to all those other parents who aspire to push their children down the same route Justin Bieber took on YouTube. It's really a hit or miss situation. Just make sure your kid has at least somewhat talent. One ''Friday'' is enough. We REALLY don't need any pop videos celebrating ''Thursday'', ''Monday'' or ''Sunday''.  We could do that on our own just fine. I'm sure Justin Bieber himself would agree as well.

Bieber performs a snippet of Black's ''Friday'' at a March 25th concert in London.

New competition for The Bieber Fever? I think not. 

Bye Bye Black Plague. Your 15 minutes are officially over with my dear.