Rebecca Black Spoke To Us About Going Viral With "Friday" 10 Years Ago And Her New Project "Rebecca Black Was Here" - BuzzFeed

I think lyrically and sonically, it's an everything-in-one type — which I really like about it.

I mean, for years, I only really put out singles and I tried to go off of whatever felt the most correct and ready at the time.

Sound-wise, it's finally a direction that I feel really represents me and not necessarily anybody else.

Rebecca: It's tough when you're a kid, you always feel like the dumbest and most ignorant person in the room.

But now I really feel like a person and someone who has been through X things and has something to say and to talk about — and find that it's important for me to do so.

But I think I allowed that to really bubble up inside of me in an unhealthy way, to the point where I never trusted myself with anything.

I think that this year, and the amount of alone time that I had, really allowed me to get a lot more focused on my intentions, my point of view, and perspective because there was nobody out there to really doubt me.

So that really, I think, benefited in the long run just because I was able to create what I really wanted to and wasn't so focused on making the song.

I find that I'm able to be my most [authentic] version of myself in very low-pressure situations — it's much easier for me to communicate with people through something like a 2 a.m.

On that day, I just felt really able to speak honestly and openly.

When writing it, I really didn't hold back or try to bend any of the lyrics to make it feel like it could pass as a straighter thing — which might sound silly on the outside, but to a queer person it's really important.

I remember a time where someone would just be like, "Hey, happy Friday!" not even thinking about the song, but being a kind person, and me feeling like I'd just gotten hit.

It felt very exciting, just to have something that I felt really, really proud of, especially — around that song.

I think it allowed me to also kind of redefine that experience in a lot of ways and make a new really defining experience.

It was so awesome to see all of the different reactions that it made because at first I think it just felt really out of my control with the original song and video — when I was so young, because it was never supposed to happen.

Everybody has access to so many people nowadays, and that puts so many people in front of others more easily, but at the same time it can feel like a single drop in a massive ocean of talented people.