Each week, The Daily Beast sifts through the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, "Friday" singer Rebecca Black breaks her silence, Priscilla Queen of the Desert gets deliciously campy, and a little-known German painter gets his due.
Gettin' Down on Friday
Rebecca Black never set out to become the latest viral sensation. The Orange County, Calif., eighth grader displaced Charlie Sheen as a top Twitter trending topic thanks to the first song she recorded—a scrappy synth-pop confection called "Friday"—and the song's deliciously lo-fi video would go on to be viewed a staggering 16 million times on YouTube in spite of (or more likely, owing precisely to) its amusingly amateurish production values. And then came the backlash. In her first interview since taking over Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr, 13-year-old Rebecca Black talks to Chris Lee about the video, being "cyberbullied," and all the "haters" out there. Plus, try to spot the differences between Rebecca Black's "Friday" and Top 40 hits.
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