Oh, Cultural Double Standards.

I found this on reddit.com today. Granted, there's one fallacy in there- Rebecca Black didn't write the lyrics to "Friday"- it's a pretty interesting comparison.

The idea of Wayne's type of rap has never appealed to me, even though I'm technically in that demographic that music like his is produced for (white suburban teenage males)[side note- while I technically lived outside of the city of St. Louis, I spent most of my time in the city. So that's kind of misleading, but whatever). Wayne has been critically lauded, winning, among countless other awards, 4 Grammys. He won his first Grammy for the song "Lollipop," a song about receiving oral sex and comparing it to candy.

A Grammy. For a song about a blow job.

While Rebecca Black didn't write actually write the lyrics for "Friday" (you can credit this guy, Patrice Wilson, with that), she associated herself with the music and now will go down in infamy for this song. Although the song is pretty pointless- telling us the days of the week, repeating the word "fun" something along the lines of 15 times, etc- we all know it, it's been around for quite some time at this point. The poor girl is getting a lot of slack for it, too. People have commented on her video and told her to cut herself and die and that she should hate herself. Seriously? She's 13. She did this for fun. Those are her actual friends in that video (which prompts one question- why are 13 year olds driving?). Let the girl be a kid, that's really what everybody needs at that age. Not relentless mockery for singing a song for fun.

But is it really all that different from Lil Wayne's trashy "swag rap"? Not really. The point is really the same- to make meaningless songs that in the end just make all of us look bad.