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Rebecca Black Just Wants a Budget
Rebecca Black talks her Salvation Tour, opening for Katy Perry on the Lifetimes tour and being on the verge of a new kind of pop stardom.
Both works nodded towards the frenetic production and pulse-racing beats of the hyperpop scene dominating the underground in the early 2020s — and she’s matched them with regular hyperpop-inflected DJ sets, including a high-profile 2024 Boiler Room gig, which have further established her within the dance world — but with much fuller and more varied songs than that subgenre tended to produce. And even at a low-four-digit-cap venue like Brooklyn’s Warsaw — where she played to a ravenous, packed-to-the-back crowd in support of her latest widescreen effort, this February’s dazzling Salvation EP — she brings extensive choreography, multiple costume changes (with video interludes), thematic coherence and enough of the kind of capital-M Moments to make those pop heroes beam with pride and recognition. In 2011, the viral sensation “Friday” made a 13-year-old Rebecca Black a household name — though for different reasons than most teen-pop aspirants would hope, as the Ark Music Factory prefab concoction bewitched the public not just for its brain-sticking chorus, but for the unshakeable dissonance of its surreal lyrics and close-but-not-quite top 40 production.
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