“So excited to announce I will make my feature film debut & star alongside this amazing cast in AMERICAN REJECT!!!” she shared on Twitter. “You all know what’s just as much fun as singing 🎤🎶 🤔 being in a MOVIE!! 🎥”
American Reject is based on Kathleen Elizabeth Monteleone‘s “true experience as a top 4 reality contestant on NBC’s Grease: You’re the One That I Want. In the film, Kay is the most recent reject from America’s hottest singing competition ‘POP STAR NOW!’ As she mourns her public elimination, she’s forced to participate in the network’s ‘After The Cut’ filming, and is sent to her small hometown to move back in with her mother and the simple life she left behind. With nothing on the horizon and a cameraman following her every move, she is reacquainted with the folks of her past and finds herself in the Easter Spectacular at the annual town fair. As it turns out, losing is her only way to win.”
Rebecca Black didn’t get a seat on The Four when she appeared on the show last week, but she sure left a mark.
The 20-year-old singer already had a fan in judge Meghan Trainor on the Fox reality series and in a new interview, opened up about her experience.
“For so long I was really scared of those kinds of shows and I never thought I would do them,” she shared with ET. “I went through such a roller coaster after ‘Friday’ and there were just — I really was not ready to do something like that until The Four came into my life.”
Just after her appearance, Rebecca released the video for her new single, “Satellite”.
“It is such a special song to me because it was the first behind-the-scenes moment before having anything like The Four where I was really able to just let go of all of those ‘Friday’ insecurities and just be in the studio and be myself as an artist,” she says. “I just adore that song.”
Rebecca Black is back to prove to everyone that she is more than just the girl who went viral with her song “Friday” seven years ago.
The singer, who is now 20-years-old, auditioned for a spot on The Four and the episode aired during the season two premiere on Thursday (June 7).
Rebecca sang “Bye Bye Bye” by *NSYNC as her audition song and received three yes votes from the judges. That allowed her to challenge one of the four singers who were sitting in the chairs at the time.
Rebecca chose to challenge James Graham and she performed Natalie Imbruglia‘s “Torn” for her second performance. Ultimately in the end, the audience chose to keep James in his chair and Rebecca was eliminated.
“I could not be more grateful for the platform you guys gave me to just be who I truly am and to do what I love more than anything else in the world. What a huge weight lifted and I cannot wait to show you what’s to come 🖤🎙,” she tweeted.
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“NEW VIDEO!! Me and @msrebeccablack do Havana! … featuring a sweet guitar gang of me @nashvillecreative & @goldgoldmanman Let me know whatcha think!” he tweeted.
“Oh but my heart is in #Havana New @Camila_Cabello cover with @KurtHSchneider is out now!! Go check it out and get down with us!” Rebeccaadded.
Rebecca and Kurt were joined in the video by Joshua Daubin and Gold Man, who lent their guitar skills.
HAVANA – Camila Cabello – Rebecca Black & KHS Cover
Rebecca Black became a viral joke when she was just 13 years old, a vulnerable age for anyone even out of the spotlight.
In a new essay, the now-20-year-old “Heart Full of Scars” singer opens up about the constant online bullying, and about how Katy Perry‘s kindness towards her was a light in the darkness.
“There were some breaks in the clouds,” she wrote for NBC. “I got to meet and work with Katy Perry who, in the midst of so much hate directed at me was nice to me in a totally non-ironic way.”
“It didn’t make up for the abuse I was experiencing, but between that and the adults who tried to protect me, maybe it did help mitigate some of the worst of the pain and fear,” Rebecca continued.
“I will never fully understand how I became one of the first people to experience online bullying in an extremely intense way. But I do know now that what happened to me is truly just a global extension of something that goes on in every school, on every computer screen and in every neighborhood.”
It’s amazing that Rebecca overcame that experience and is now using her past and her platform to fight online bullying.
Rebecca Black is looking to inspire and empower with her playful new music video for “Heart Full of Scars.”
The 20-year-old singer features friends and fans in her video, dancing around and slinging paint at a wall. The upbeat, colorful video is the perfect backdrop for the song’s resilient, love-yourself message.
“I wanted other people to help me sing this, but be able to experience a little bit of it,” she told Refinery29.
“For my fans,” the video says at the beginning, “Let it sink in… you’re enough.”
Rebecca‘s EP RE/BL dropped today (September 15) with six brand-new songs.
