When I walked into Feature Writing on Friday, I didn’t think my life would be changed forever. But as the YouTube video we watched played on, I knew that I would never be the same. I looked over at Professor Matt Tullis, who stood with his hand over his mouth and slight tears in his eyes, and I knew…I knew that we were all never going to forget this day. I am, of course, referring to my class’s public screening of 13-year-old Rebecca Black’s music video “Friday.”

As my class laughed out loud (that’s why Tullis had tears in his eyes), I was outraged at their obvious rudeness. This is just another 13-year-old prodigy who finally figured out how to use Auto-Tune and convinced her parents to pay a considerable amount of money to every recording studio who would listen.

Leave Rebecca Black alone. Her Auto-Tune is top-quality. I mean, I will be the first to admit it, I have never heard anything so high-pitched and nasally in my life. She probably has the latest equipment, stuff that would make Ke$ha look outdated.

I also heard that in order to keep her voice in top childlike quality, Black keeps her swimming pool at a cool two degrees and takes a long swim every morning to ensure that she never loses her throat cold. That is dedication and hard work, people! You should try it sometime! I bet when she starts touring, she will make sure she has bronchitis, tonsillitis, strep throat, a cold and the flu. You have to be in rare form on tour and her work ethic is intense.

As for her parents paying her recording studio, someone said they only paid $2,000, so calm down everyone. What parent wouldn’t dish that amount of money out to make their kid talented? Plus, it was Ark Studios and Black knew that that was the studio for her, since it reminded her of all the Bible stories her parents told her when she was little…I mean, two years ago.

As I heard the beginning lyrics “Oo-ooh-ooh, hoo yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah-ah-ah,” I knew that Black was writing on a deep, personal level and was using her own life experiences to write a terrific song. This is definitely a song I can relate to. When Black sang the lyrics “Gotta get down to the bus stop, gotta catch my bus,” I thought, of course! That makes so much sense. Why did I not think of it before?

I must admit she got a little too deep for me when she sang the words, “Fun, fun, think about fun, You know what it is, I got this, you got this, My friend is by my right, ay, I got this, you got this, Now you know it.” I feel so stupid. I’m sure this makes sense to more intelligent people.

I was back on board when she talked about driving around partying at 7:45 p.m. though. I feel you, girl. It’s always important to get an early start so that you can be home in time for a cookie and warm milk by 10 p.m. Momma knows best, right?

Finally, don’t even get me started on her lyrics about not knowing which seat to take in her friend’s car. I have that problem all the time. Lucky for her, she will be rich soon and be able to buy herself a two-seater convertible Sky – hard decision solved, she can only sit in the front. Of course, she will have to stare at it for two years since she can’t drive…