This video has gone viral, and aroused a lot of discussion.
Here's the Dynamite perspective on Rebecca Black: She is awesome! The tune is catchy, and the video production aspires to be professional. It's more than a teenage girl lip-syncing into her hairbrush video-ed on her cell phone.
Yet the lyrics are cheeeeeeesy! Yet if this was a Talking Heads song, we would be saying: "How cool, how avant-garde, how ironic!" Yet she is totally sincere, totally enthusiastic, totally having fun. If she was doing this ironically, it would just be another ironic too-cool-for-school kind of thing. It's her authenticity that shines through in a medium that is either given to falsity or cynicism.
She pours her heart and soul into an embarrassing project. We've all done similar things in our life. Her failure is her authenticity. This is the essence of "Dynamite." That's why I love Rebecca Black.
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