The article argues that while Rebecca Black’s “Friday” is an easy target for mocking because of its vocals, dancing, and lyrics, it was essentially a paid, kid-focused “make your own pop video” project bought by her mother. The author says the scale and nastiness of the online backlash is disproportionate given that Black was a 13-year-old experimenting for fun in a way that, in earlier eras, would have remained private. It also notes that shallow, nonsensical lyrics are common across mainstream pop hits, making “Friday” less of an outlier than critics suggest. The piece concludes that criticism should be aimed more at the adult industry and profitable pop machine that normalizes such content, not at a child.