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I Sang The Song "Friday" : Rebecca Black - YouTube
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my name is Rebecca black and I sang at
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the song Friday this is that story it
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all started in 2010 I just finished up
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at the seventh alright agent so I was a
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whopping 13 years old I grew up being a
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huge musical leader kid I was that girl
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that was obsessed with glee and tried to
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sing the songs in my room I auditioned
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for everything that I could it was my
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home that was where I felt safe
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throughout moving schools and I don't
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know trying to figure out what I wanted
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to do going back into eighth grade I had
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noticed that a girl in my grade I was
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friends with had done this like music
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video was sort of a thing she shot it at
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the school it was a little cute song and
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she had friends in it I was like oh
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that's a cool opportunity to like try
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something new get experience and see
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what I liked so I asked this girl like
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hey how did you do that
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she had mentioned that it was through
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this little company it was this thing
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that like produced these songs for kids
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like my age teenagers so I brought it up
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to a mom one day like on a whim fully
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expecting her to say no my mom's a
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single mom so it's not like this stuff
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is just pouring out of the sky but to my
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surprise she said yeah we emailed the
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company met up with them that was my
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first time ever even seeing what any of
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that looks like they basically said we
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can write you a song put you in a music
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video if you get a hundred thousand
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views you can start making money per
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minute but at that point I was like okay
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there's no way that this little thing is
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gonna get any sort of attention so
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whatever like I just want the experience
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they send me a song and the first song
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was a song called superwoman about
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some boys superwoman and at that point I
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had just finished up my first
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relationship that lasted three days and
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I broke up with him because I was too
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afraid to talk to him so that clearly
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wasn't going to be the song that I was
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going to say I asked him to send me
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another one because I just didn't really
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feel comfortable
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they sent me a song called it's Friday
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and it was a cute little song of like
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waking up going to school and I was like
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yeah I do that this is this is it it
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wasn't even really about like what the
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song was about or planning for this big
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career debut because that just doesn't
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happen to me so I went in I did the
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whole feel of a recording process
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learning what it's even like I was kind
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of bad I knew that the music video was
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coming up in a couple weeks but I didn't
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even hear the song until I got on set
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for the music video I had no idea what
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really to expect
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it felt honestly kind of like we were
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all going over to my dad's house to do a
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project things were just kind of
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happening around me and it wasn't really
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like this big glamorous ordeal or
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anything like that I had gone to a
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forever 21 I got my outfit the day
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before I had invited a few of my friends
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I thought that would be a lot more fun
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than hiring anyone to like come hang out
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I remember doing that performance shot
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that's like on top of this little grass
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patch not knowing what to do with my
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arms so I think if you watch the video
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like I'm just digging and dancing like
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this for the whole time which god it was
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a fun day but also just kind of like
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okay this is what we're doing a month
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went by and honestly I had no idea where
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it was I was just kind of like thinking
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about it every once in a while like I
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wonder when I'll when I'll see you
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February 10th of 2011
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I got a little notification from the
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company's website that the video was
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live
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I was really weirdly nervous I think I
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watched it alone for my first time what
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I really remember doing was afters maybe
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see it one time going to my dad and
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being like dad it's out and watching it
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together and my dad and I just being
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like
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yeah I told my friends that were in the
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video at school for a while like that
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was it I would get like one or two
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people at school that be like hey it's
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Friday I wouldn't really check it that
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much online I know that over the first
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month it had like maybe three thousand
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views or something one day which
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literally was a Friday I was on my way
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home from school and I got another
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little notification from the website hey
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this sucks but you're gonna be famous
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and I think they said that it was on a
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website called tosh point-o when I saw
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that I was just really confused I don't
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even think I told my mom or anything I
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like one straight to my room and was
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like what's going on I went to the video
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and it definitely had three times the
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amount of views that it had a few days
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ago comments were starting to come a bit
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more and they were definitely all making
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fun of me making fun of the song that
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immediately put the biggest pit in my
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stomach I've probably ever had I think
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at that point I was just like mom help
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she brought me into her room and I think
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I just started crying I mean it's not
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that I was protecting this thing as my
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like prized most beautiful creative
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thing I've ever made in my life but it
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was me and that was my face and that was
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my name people were making fun of my mom
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got on the phone with a people put the
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video up and they asked me if I wanted
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to take it down we could put it away
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this never happened it's just a blip and
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move on one thing that I just could not
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shake within myself was like no I don't
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want to put this down it's so much more
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embarrassing I think there was also this
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like fire in myself I'm not gonna let
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these people win that easy will bubble
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bubble bubble whoa I've been through
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this enough you want to fight let's go
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let's do this a few days go by and
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now at over million views that weekend
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my family and I were just kind of
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watching it build more and more rapidly
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my name was trending worldwide I
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remember I was walking down the street
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on Twitter and I was like oh my god Nick
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Jonas just saying my song at his show
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what I remember my first day back at
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school was probably one of the weirdest
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days of my life when like recess came
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about all of these people just like
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blocked my way because they were so
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curious with all of that going on my
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parents were trying to figure out how to
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handle like all of the incoming stuff
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now Good Morning America wants to talk
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about something and I just got asked to
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do The Tonight Show with Jay Leno I
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don't even think I knew what a manager
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was at that time of course they were
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coming to my parents saying we're gonna
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change your life and my mommy and do all
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these things at this point as well I had
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stopped going to the school I was at
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public school and I stepped into home
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schooling to finish the year I come from
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a family of doctors who expect nothing
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about literally greatness from you and I
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was getting all these crazy
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opportunities you know spend the day
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doing this and then spent a day going
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and working with this person and doing
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all of these crazy things
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my grades were horrible on top of that
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yeah kids were mean I'd walk down the
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hallways and
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it was just this like weird persnickety
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like very few people were laughing with
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me I was like this would all just be so
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much easier if I could not be so nervous
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about it all the time as much as like I
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wanted to keep my friends and how much I
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needed them at that point I think both
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me and those friends cut each other off
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because we were young and petty and yeah
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I don't know if there's one person to
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blame but I I think I isolated myself
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like while also being isolated the
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craziest thing about while all of this
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was going on and all this like weird
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attention was coming I got to do some of
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the coolest things that I've ever done I
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got to work with Katy Perry who at that
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point was like my idol
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not only just work with her but like
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have her have my back I got to go to
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award shows and Redcar friends and do
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the whole thing I won a Teen Choice
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Award hosting YouTube rewind and being
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the number one googled thing that year
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which is insane so 2011 definitely ended
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up being the weirdest year of my life it
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was one of the best and obviously one of
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the worst and so life went on it was
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kind of like what what happens now 2012
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was one of the darkest years for me I
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was 15 and I had no friends and I was
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super alone and at that point like you
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would think having like a team and all
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these things makes everything so much
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better but all it was were just people
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who
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didn't care to understand what I wanted
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didn't want to hear it if anything that
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was just interrupting their plan for who
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I was going to be and when you're that
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young no one should be telling you
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anything like that you've got to figure
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it out for yourself when I was 16 I
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fired everyone in my team and my parents
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were like you should go back to club
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work school so I did and at that point I
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started a YouTube channel and that was
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one of the most freeing things I'd ever
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done for myself because I got to talk I
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wanted I was editing all my own stuff I
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was making so many friends that loved
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what I loved - and also covering things
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and just I don't know I let myself fly
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the first thing that I like really
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released on my own was a few years ago
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in 2016 and that was horrifying leading
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up to it to have to put out so I was
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like like this is something I actually
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like it is real it is genuine it came
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for me wrote written for me so now my
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days look like me constantly writing
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music and coming up with what is gonna
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happen next I put out a song called
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anyway this last year that I love so
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much and has been really fun to do and
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I'm just about to put out another song
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called do you I know when I look back
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when I'm you know hopefully old and I've
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had a whole life that I can be like yeah
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okay
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I did that for myself I'm about to go on
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tour this summer opening up it's my
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first like real full-fledged music tour
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I guess I'll see you around the internet
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or maybe see you untoward bye
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