Rebecca Black released her viral song on Friday in 2011, which made her widely ridiculed as a preteen.
But on Wednesday the 23-year-old singer paid tribute to that moment in her life by debuting a new remix with Big Freedia, 3OH! 3 and Dorian Electra, as well as a new futuristic video.
Celebrating the important occasion before the launch, she wrote, ‘this week FRIDAY turns 10 AND won GOLD. I’ve been preparing a very special remix with some iconic people. ‘
10 years: Rebecca Black, 23, celebrates the 10th anniversary of the viral hit ‘Friday’ with a new remix and a futuristic video clip after opening last year about the bullying she suffered from the release of the song in 2011
The video shows the original video, where she can be seen recreating that iconic scene of driving a convertible – with a twist.
The artist, now with blue hair, displayed her newfound nervous personality while swinging a studded faux leather mesh while driving with the gold plate on the passenger seat.
The three-minute trippy song features scenes from his bedroom before flying in a car high in the sky accompanied by a series of characters – some animated and some not.
Her voice is racing and the pitch has been raised to make her more of a peculiar electronic banger.
With a twist: Black’s voice is accelerated to a high pitch to produce a boppy electronic version of the teen bop
Teenage dream: the three-minute video features scenes from her bedroom as a nod to the old video, where details like bows, cereal bowls and makeup are spread out as she gets dressed
Driving scene: the original video showed her driving a convertible with friends, while she chose to recreate it for the video with a different twist
When Black first released the song at age 13, she received a negative reaction to the teen anthem, after it was revealed that her mother paid $ 2,000 for access to pre-written music, with the money also covering the cost of recording the video. .
The song went viral because it was overwhelmingly ‘bad’ and was ridiculed by comedians and the public, although some called it ‘sickly catchy’, and that made it a star overnight.
Just three months after it was released, the video had accumulated more than 166 million views on YouTube, but most of the engagement with it was negative, as at one point it received 3M of ‘heartbreak’.
Black spoke months after the song was released and told the Daily Beast: ‘These painful comments really shocked me. Sometimes it feels like I’m being bullied online. ‘
Gone gold: Black revealed before the release of the song that it had become gold
Higher production value: when the song was released in 2010, her mother took it and covered the cost of filming the video with $ 2,000
Moving on: she was candid about the bullying she suffered over the years in several interviews, most recently sharing more last February, when the song turned nine
His record label Ark Music offered to remove the video, but Black said he didn’t want to give ‘haters’ satisfaction, instead he said ‘I want to show people that there’s more to me than they think.’
She continued to pursue a musical career, releasing on Saturday in 2013 and the album RE / BL in 2017.
Sharing more about the pain she suffered as a teenager, she wrote an honest caption for Instagram on the track’s ninth anniversary last February.
‘most of all, i just wanted to be able to go back and talk to my 13 year old self, who was terribly ashamed and afraid of the world. to my 15-year-old self, who felt he had no one to talk to about the depression he faced.
‘for my 17 year old self who would go to school just to have food thrown at her and her friends. for my 19-year-old self, who almost every producer / songwriter told me they would never work with, ‘she wrote.
Tough years: she said she was bullied for most of her teenage years on Friday, facing depression and closed doors in her face when trying to pursue a career after music made her an overnight star
A new sheet: ‘you are not defined by any choice or thing. time heals and nothing is finite ‘, she wrote while reflecting on her career after her viral success last February; February 2020
‘you are not defined by any choice or thing. time heals and nothing is finite ‘, he concluded.
Speaking about her re-release of the anthem on Wednesday, she told TMZ:
‘I think the day never really goes away … I think it now has a nostalgic vibe. So much has happened in the last 10 years, I think it represents a kind of version from a simpler time. ‘
She continued to address the reaction she received when cyberbullying was beginning to appear.
‘I was 13, I was a child. I know people were not really thinking before they spoke, which we all do … but I think and hope that we are walking in a direction where the words we say to other people carelessly have a lot of weight for them. ‘
A decade later: she told TMZ on Wednesday: ‘So much has happened in the past 10 years, I think it represents a kind of version of a simpler time’