Success does not always tastes sweet, and Rebecca Black is drinking her bitter cup to the dregs.
Overnight sensation is a phenomenon too sudden to take in, but when 14-year-old Rebecca Black made an instant mark on YouTube with her song Friday, she hardly expected that it would chase her out of her school! The Internet hit maker confessed to ABC’s Nightline that her in-school life had been plagued with bullying so much that she had to apply for homeschooling.
She says that her classmates have taken to bursting out into Friday in distorted voices upon spotting her or get at her asking if she knows what day it is.
The girl’s mother, Georgina Marquez, said to ABC that she regarded homeschooling as the only way to take her daughter out of undesirable pressure.
While it was comparatively easy to get out of fire at school, the online kind of pelting is another matter altogether. Internet pestering keeps on coming, attaining zenith in May with the vicious rumor of the teenager’s pregnancy. Being hit by a pregnancy rumor when she is still heart-throbbing over her first kiss, says Black, “is just frustrating.” Yet, she went on to say, it all is helping her to learn to grow an armor and not to bend under pressure.
Black’s success has proved a double-edged sword from the very beginning when it created a sensation in March. It gave rise to an instant spate of vilification with people claiming it was the worst song they ever heard or deriding Black’s “kickin’ in the front seat, sittin’ in the back seat” lyrics.
On the other hand the teen singer had her song featuring on one of the Glee episodes and received an invitation from Katy Perry to participate in the video clip for her Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.).
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