The singer behind the internet music sensation “Friday” said today that critics posting nasty comments on the Web about her have made her cry.
Rebecca Black, a Southern California teenager whose YouTube video has hit 16 million views, said the worst comments she’s seen include, “I hope you cut yourself” and “I hope you get an eating disorder so you’ll look pretty.”
“I did cry,” she said in an interview aired Friday on ABC’s Good Morning America. “I felt like this was my fault and I shouldn’t have done this.”
But the song, which some have called “the worst song ever” and inane, has thrust Black into the worldwide spotlight.
“I can’t tell if I’m awake or not. It’s crazy,” she said.
The song was number 31 in the top 100 iTunes list.
Asked when she knew the magnitude of the song, she recalled “seeing it go from 4,000 views to 70,000 in one night and waking up and it was at 200,000.”
“That’s when I realized this is going to be big,” Black said. Though the video song benefits from Auto-Tune, Black demonstrated she can actually sing, belting out a few lines of the Star Spangled Banner on Good Morning America.
“I think I have talent on some level. I don’t think I’m the worst singer but I don’t think I’m the best singer,” she said.
Asked who she would like to sing a duet with, Black responded Justin Bieber.
“I have Bieber fever. I am in love with Justin Bieber. Just thinking of it just gives me butterflies. That would be unreal. That would just make my life,” she said.
The video was produced by Los Angeles-based indie label and burgeoning teen-pop stable Ark Music Factory.
