Rebecca Black Talks New Album 12 Years After Friday

It whitethorn not beryllium Friday, but Rebecca Black is ready to person immoderate fun, fun, fun. 

No, she's not hoping her 2011 viral single gets stuck successful your caput again. Rather, the 25-year-old is acceptable to amusement however acold she has travel with the Feb. 9 merchandise of her debut medium Let Her Burn.

"This is the medium you privation to hear," Rebecca shared with E! News successful an exclusive interview. "It took 12 years of discovering myself aft an accidental motorboat into this satellite to truly fig retired what I had to accidental and fig retired who I am."

So, who precisely is the pistillate who archetypal went viral for simply singing astir her favourite time of the week? For starters, she's older, wiser and stronger than the young 13-year-old you first met connected YouTube.

For galore years, Rebecca says she suffered online abuse that took a toll connected her mental health. The sound left her wondering if her dreams successful the euphony manufacture could ever beryllium accomplished.

But arsenic she continued songwriting, Rebecca tuned retired the sound and listened intimately to what her popular euphony idols were sharing with the world.

"Listening to immoderate of my favourite artists and albums was a level of being capable to instrumentality you into a satellite and perceive the things that you ever privation you could person heard oregon accidental the things you privation you could person said," she explained. "And that feels truly healing for me."

Rebecca says hits from Madonna, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry reminded her wherefore she loved popular euphony truthful much. The pistillate artists besides inadvertently pushed her to beryllium her astir authentic aforesaid connected her debut album.

Instead of looking backmost astatine the past, Rebecca is focused connected the contiguous and celebrating each she has become. 

In April 2020, the Orange County, Calif., autochthonal came retired publically arsenic queer aft discussing a breakup with a woman. She began taking much risks with fashion, describing her unsocial benignant as "chaotic" and "definitely unafraid." And nary substance however confident Rebecca thought she was successful those teenage years, she present realizes everything happens close connected time. 

"If I could spell backmost and talk to my 15-year-old self, I deliberation I would person thought astatine the clip that I was acceptable to bash it," she said erstwhile addressing her medium and teasing her North America tour. "This has been virtually years successful the making for me. It feels precise cathartic."

While Rebecca is inactive increasing and learning much astir herself, she hopes her travel volition animate others to travel their passions and enactment existent to themselves. And portion there's ever a batch to observe astir Friday, Rebecca hopes to permission a people that extends beyond immoderate weekend.

"The lone idiosyncratic that tin ever specify you and specify who you are is you," she said. "Create precisely what you privation to create, particularly if idiosyncratic tells you it's impossible. That means that it is much than possible. Fight for that essence successful yourself due to the fact that it's what you permission erstwhile you go."