00:00 H3 Pod Okay, here we are. 00:01 It's Monday, right? 00:04 Crosstalk It's Monday. 00:05 It is Monday. 00:06 H3 Pod January 30th. 00:08 And we are here with someone I'm very excited to talk to today. 00:14 Someone whose career I've been tracking. 00:18 Rebecca Black, the one and only. 00:20 Rebecca Black Yes, Shredder! 00:23 H3 Pod Shredder's feeling it. 00:25 Rebecca Black I'm so excited to be here. 00:27 H3 Pod Well, thank you. 00:29 Today's episode is sponsored by Kudos. 00:30 Thank you to them. 00:31 So Rebecca Black is here. 00:33 I think everybody knows who you are, which is kind of interesting. 00:39 How are you doing? 00:40 i'm good i'm good i'm good definitely definitely doing better than previous times previous okay that's good catching me at a good time yeah nice i'm glad to hear it so um first of all right at the top i want to say that uh your first album debut full-length album let her burn is coming out on the 9th of february that's fun awesome 01:08 Rebecca Black I'm excited. 01:09 I know a lot of people are giving me a little bit of shit. 01:13 Can you switch? 01:14 H3 Pod Yeah, you can switch. 01:15 Rebecca Black A lot of people are giving. 01:16 H3 Pod You just can't say, see you next Tuesday. 01:18 Rebecca Black really youtube for whatever reason they put the kibosh on that word apparently that sounds like they say it's like a hate word against women no it's like at this point i feel like it's become like less of a slur than that's at least in like gay culture and well good to know anyway um anything else is good yeah i've gotten a lot of for the fact that like it's been 12 years and it's a debut album but it took me some time it took me some time 01:44 well that's but you're not coming from nothing i mean you've been putting out eps and singles and stuff so you've been active yeah yeah i mean i i needed to figure it all out you know i like everything happened so unexpectedly i was like a youtuber mainly for a while like i've done a lot of different things but yeah it's it's good 02:03 H3 Pod So that's exciting. 02:05 And also I want to say that if you guys want to go to her website, RebeccaBlack.co slash shows, you're also on tour, right? 02:15 Rebecca Black Wow, yes. 02:16 H3 Pod Shredder, god damn. 02:17 He's excited. 02:18 Rebecca Black He's excited. 02:19 H3 Pod Can you just stop whatever you're doing? 02:21 Anything Dan does, says Shredder on. 02:24 He's feeling better. 02:25 He actually was in the hospital for... Oh, no. 02:27 Rebecca Black acute kidney damage oh my god yeah he did almost die not to bum you out but he's in a pretty good mood these days okay good making up for a lot i'm so glad he's with us yeah yeah um thank you for the tour shout out yeah i'm heading to uh the uk this week wow or um for my first run 02:48 H3 Pod There it is. 02:49 So Rebecca Black is out there. 02:51 You're 25 now. 02:54 Rebecca Black I'm 25. 02:54 H3 Pod And you were 13 when Friday originally came out. 02:58 Is that right? 02:58 Yes. 02:59 Rebecca Black OK. Yeah. 03:00 Yeah. 03:00 H3 Pod So I kind of want to I kind of want to start from kind of the beginning. 03:04 Go back a little bit. 03:05 I want to learn about you and your family and stuff like that. 03:07 Rebecca Black Sure. 03:07 Sure. 03:07 Sure. 03:08 Sure. 03:08 Sure. 03:08 H3 Pod So where are you from? 03:11 Rebecca Black I'm from Orange County. 03:12 I'm from Anaheim. 03:13 H3 Pod Oh, you're from here. 03:14 Yeah. 03:14 Rebecca Black OK. Well, I mean, I'm definitely not from L.A., but like I'm from Southern California. 03:19 Yeah. 03:20 H3 Pod And you mentioned to me that both of your parents are veterinarians. 03:23 Yeah. 03:24 Interesting. 03:25 Rebecca Black yes yeah uh they met at a vet conference now my mom is my dad's boss my brother works with them like i your brother works with them yes see a vet too or like he well he's 23 so you know he's like just learning and kind of assisting and all of that but uh but yeah no i'm definitely like the only one out here doing something not in that world okay and um 03:55 H3 Pod Did you always, how did this interest in music come about? 03:58 Because obviously you were pretty young when Friday came out. 04:04 Was that something that you had always wanted to do or was it something you just did on a whim for fun? 04:09 Like how did that come about? 04:10 Rebecca Black i i grew up as a kid who was always performing like i was a dancer when i was three from the time i was like probably 13 and um i was always in like theater camps and performance groups i was in some like really cringe like patriotic performing groups at one point just as like a kid oh like uh like 04:33 tell me about that it was really cute it was cute i mean we would basically just the group was called celebration usa i don't know if i've ever mentioned this but like it was just like i was 11 and that was actually when i first started singing was through that group and you would just go and perform at like retirement home like veteran bases um you know those kinds of things we sang like the national anthem at the angel stadium once 05:01 um and yeah we were just saying like hats off here comes the flag what were you guys wearing like 05:08 Glitter American flag red lipstick the pantyhose It was a vibe You are always interested in singing. 05:18 H3 Pod So how did the yeah this idea for Friday come together? 05:22 Rebecca Black Well, I was in musical I was in a musical theater program at my school in middle school and I had a friend who Like over the summer just like one day like she like had a music video and like all my friends were in it and they filmed it at the school and I was like 05:38 that's crazy like how did you do that and um yeah she just I like asked her about it one day and she just mentioned that she worked with this company and um that yeah like it was like kind of like a little thing she got to do 05:53 H3 Pod okay so the company that produced your video i remember because they've made a lot of other shit that i've talked about i have a very intimate um knowledge of arc factory music and patrice wilson i um and so you heard that your friend had worked with him and she's like oh you should go check work with these people 06:20 Rebecca Black Yeah, she was just like, oh yeah, it's this thing called ARC. 06:22 And I was like, oh, I'll go look that up. 06:24 Like that's cool. 06:25 Cause I don't know. 06:26 I was like very, I was very passionate about like music, performing, really performing was like my big thing. 06:34 Like I was always like, probably like the most annoying kid in musical theater about like taking it seriously. 06:41 I thought like at that point, like, I mean, I was 13. 06:44 So like, I wasn't even in high school yet, but I was like, maybe I'll go to Juilliard. 06:47 like maybe i'll go to nyu and like end up in new york on broadway or something and um and so i checked it out and like my mom has always been really supportive of me and my brother i mean she's come she's hispanic she's from mexico and like her style of parenting has always just been like whatever you want to do if you have like a love like let's do it 07:09 um even when she didn't really have the means to do it she would pull some crazy shit and like i don't know she would help my brother get into like club soccer or like something whatever she thought we liked um and so i just had told her about it as i was looking it up and she was like oh well we should like let's check it out like maybe it's a cool experience that you can put on your resume and like you know having been in a recording studio and so i think she literally like emailed the company sorry that's my bad 07:39 Crosstalk um i think she like emailed the company and then set it up yeah i've always wondered if it's like when i see a kid do something like this i always wonder is it like the parent pushing totally but it sounds like i know in your case it totally came from you 07:57 Rebecca Black Yeah, yeah. 07:58 I mean, I, my mom was always really supportive. 08:01 And, and both my parents, I mean, I think they just like wanted me to find a passion. 08:11 Crosstalk Yeah, I love that. 08:12 Rebecca Black my parents have always been lucky to be like i've always wanted to be a vet and so as soon as they saw that i had something that i maybe wanted to do they were like well okay yeah um but no i mean if anything especially after the fact with friday they were like you really want to keep doing this you insane um let's convince you not to because look at how poorly this went out the first time um 08:38 H3 Pod but yeah no i mean i have been very lucky that like my parents have been the one thing that have never taken advantage that's really good i think it was obvious that there was a supportive parent behind that video because like i mean was it it looked at least kind of expensive to put together but i don't know what he i'm very gracious no no i wonder it's not that bad like the video itself is well produced i was wondering that it's pretty good like the audio quality 09:07 Like say what you will about Patrice, but the guy knows how to throw a video together. 09:11 Rebecca Black I mean, you know, they like the way the way they work is they hire a production company and they kind of do the video. 09:18 And I mean, we literally shot it like at my dad's house at the time. 09:21 All my friends were in it. 09:23 Oh, OK. You know, it was like the wind in one of the moments where I'm like in the car is literally a leaf blower. 09:30 And like that's awesome. 09:32 Green screens of like cardboard. 09:34 I mean, the reason we weren't in a school bus was because they couldn't afford it. 09:37 They were like, let's rent. 09:39 H3 Pod Do you remember how much it cost? 09:40 I've always been curious. 09:41 Like a few thousand. 09:42 Rebecca Black I mean, I think that I know that there was like an agreement of like, well, here you can pay four grand and like, that's all you got to do. 09:51 And this will cover owning the song or whatever. 09:53 But, and so I know that that was a thing, but I actually, I don't even know what the video, I have to imagine it costs more than that.