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# 'Friday' singer Rebecca Black Reminds World How Much Words Can Hurt
- URL: https://celebritykind.ghost.io/friday-singer-rebecca-black-reminds-world-how-much-words-can-hurt/
- Published: 2020-02-12T11:45:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-30T04:17:44.000Z
- Author: Nehal Dalgliesh
- Tags: Kindness, Bullying, Rebecca Black, #Migrated-1790725130940, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-09-29 23:39

It's been nine years since **Rebecca Black** released *that song.*

That song about how "tomorrow is Saturday and afterwards comes Sunday," but the best day of the week "is Friday, Friday, gotta catch up on Friday."

Yeah, you know it - the Twitterverse dubbed it one of [the worst songs ever.](http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/12784330/worst-song-ever-gets-29m-views-after-going-viral?ref=celebritykind.ghost.io) (And if you don't know it, ummm, where were you all of 2011?)

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What most of us didn't know is just how much bullying and hate the singer copped at the time - when she was just 13 years old - and how much this impacted her.

"Above all things, I just wish I could go back and talk to my 13-year-old self who was terribly ashamed of herself and afraid of the world," the now-22-year-old writes in an Insta post.

"To my 15-year-old self who had no one to talk to about the depression she faced. To my 17-year-old self who would get to school only to get food thrown at her and her friends. To my 19-year-old self who had almost every producer/songwriter tell me they'd never work with me," she continues.

**Rebecca Black** did manage to rack up millions of views on YouTube at the time (now over 138 million!), released a few more songs and even appeared in a **Katy Perry** video clip later that year.

But almost a decade on, *that song* is still a weight on her shoulders. And she's doing her best to move on:

"I'm trying to remind myself more and more that every day is a new opportunity to shift your reality and lift your spirit. You are not defined by any one choice or thing," she writes.

"Time heals and nothing is finite. It's a process that's never too late to begin."

If there's anything we can take away from her message, it's that words hurt - and they can continue to hurt a long time after they've been posted online. But no one has to ever be defined by something that happened in the past, and every day really is a new opportunity to move forward.