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Rebecca Black is such a outstanding expertise and a stunning entertainer.
Until you checked out after her 2011 viral video and the senseless hate that she acquired, that isn’t new.
What’s new is Rebecca’s new hyper-pop observe, “Salvation.”
The tune is a pleasure. So, too, is the music video, which options Rebecca dwelling out an almost common dream: changing into a younger, scorching, wealthy widow, probably by doubtful means.
Rebecca Black attends #GRAMMYsNextGen third Annual Get together throughout the 66th GRAMMY Awards on the GRAMMY Home on February 02, 2024. (Photograph Credit score: Phillip Faraone/Getty Photographs for The Recording Academy)
On Thursday, February 27, the incomparable Rebecca Black unleashed “Salvation.”
A part of a really effectively acquired seven-song album by the identical title, “Salvation” tells — lyrically — the story of somebody whose passionate sexual escapades are receiving exterior judgment.
Whether or not the judgy celebration is homophobic or merely a generic prude is open to interpretation, because it may simply as simply be an ex who’s simmering with disapproval.
It’s the “Salvation” music video itself wherein Rebecca Black shines as a lot as she does within the recording studio.
As you possibly can see within the official music video above, Rebecca is totally dominating in skimpy, festive outfits with a Western motif.
Thematic components embody liberation. Visible components embody loads of dancing, some cheeky butt photographs, and a few oily and handsy photographs that look straight out of the unimaginable Teen Wolf intro sequence.
Rebecca Black performs onstage throughout LA Satisfaction’s Official In-Particular person Music Occasion “LA Pride In The Park” Introduced by Christopher Avenue West (CSW) at Los Angeles Historic Park on June 11, 2022. (Photograph Credit score: Emma McIntyre/Getty Photographs)
What story is Rebecca Black telling?
Within the music video itself, Rebecca Black portrays a newly minted widow. Younger, scorching, and inappropriately dressed for a funeral, she triumphantly reads from the need in entrance of the casket of her comically previous, deceased husband.
Whereas she reads out precisely how rich she has now grow to be, the considerably campy mourners wail and lament. It appears that evidently their grief has given approach to despair upon realizing that they aren’t getting a bit of the monetary pie.
What follows is loads of dancing whereas Rebecca dons a sequence of appears to be like. Some seem anachronistic, a number of are over-the-top, and a bunch are downright enthralling.
“Salvation” comes two months after Rebecca Black blew followers’ minds with “Sugar Water Cyanide.”
Whereas the official lyric video has a decrease manufacturing degree than “Salvation,” the tune itself has extra of a dance vibe. It’s downright bouncy.
With seven tracks, and songs like “TRUST!” and “Twist The Knife,” there’s certain to be a contemporary new tune for everybody. Nicely, everybody with style. (Sorry, not sorry)
Rebecca Black attends Claudia Sulewski’s launch of sustainable bodycare model CYKLAR at Solawave Home on December 05, 2023. (Photograph Credit score: John Sciulli/Getty Photographs for CYKLAR)
Hoping for extra? Now we have excellent news
If you end up in search of different music by Rebecca Black, you’re in luck. She has a stellar discography.
“Heart Full of Scars,” “Foolish,” and “The Great Divide (Dave Audé Remix)” occur to be a few of my private favorites from through the years. However there are such a lot of extra, together with everything of the Let Her Burn album.
And, after all, we are going to at all times have “Friday.” As if we would have liked extra causes to look ahead to the weekend.
