I’m Rebecca Black, I’m a songwriter and music artist from Orange County. You might know me from a decade’s past version of the Internet, but I assure you much has changed since.

It’s always so interesting for me to hear how people perceive that project in the greater timeline of my career. I definitely see how it’s felt like a reinvention of sorts to an outsider’s perspective, but to me, it really has felt like finally just beginning to unravel myself and discover who I am in music and my life in general, not only in retrospect, but as I was writing and immersed in creating the project itself. Songs like Personal and Girlfriend were such a moment of unlock for me, creatively speaking, into what’s become who I am as an artist today because of the people I have been able to create with and this moment in my life in general as a 24 year old. 

It was always there, I just never really knew how to go about making it and communicating that. I’m not sure though if I’d consider myself totally a hyperpop artist – it's become a pretty wide umbrella of a genre. I just try to follow what inspires me and those I create with, wherever that leads!

I just really wanted to reclaim it as my own, and seeing where culturally that song has come to, I felt like there was so much potential to take it as far as I possibly could. To be honest, looking back, I think that song is kind of a fucking moment, whether you see the camp or not – so why not just go for it.

I’m not sure. As a kid I was always taught to follow my instincts by people like my parents. But Friday actually did the opposite effect on my mental health – it made me question everything about myself and what to do. But having the ability to speak what I felt was always there in a way, whether I really knew it or not. With YouTube, I was always a kid who found comfort within the Internet, because I think that was such a massive part of my generation’s childhood as a whole – so I always felt drawn to that in some way or another.

I definitely have the pretty typical struggles with social media any of us might have – comparison, burnout, and all that. But I think there’s gotta be a sweet spot somewhere where you can find balance as someone whose social media is a part of the job, and I try to bring myself back to that as much as I can. The whole TikTok thing is a whole other beast though. Artists everywhere are talking about how they feel – and I can definitely resonate with the struggle to find creativity in creating music fit for a social media formula. None of that breathes inspiration or genuine creativity – and in my opinion, now more than ever is the time to focus on creating music that resonates with you as the artist, first and foremost.

It was a huge relief for me. I really have the best team surrounding me that’s only helped me find my own voice to lead within my own lane of this queer space specifically. I know it's not always like that for others – and I feel very lucky to have had so much support on all sides.

It was so incredible to be in Madrid, to be in a country and play a show with songs in a completely different language and have people in the audience scream it back so loudly. And it was so fun and special to get to finally speak a bit of Spanish with a crowd and bond over each of our Hispanic roots. It's always so fun to see Lvl1 and Sonikku too, expect something from Lvl1, Dagr and I soon…

It’s a really fantasy-driven track and song, and I think the video takes it one hundred steps further, which is what makes it feel so fun. I am always someone to just go for it, and getting to work with Slayyyter made that even more of a priority for me, knowing the potential of how much we could really surprise people if we wanted!

I think the foundation’s been laid a bit with what’s to come, but I think this next project is really the most well rounded, fully developed thing I’ve ever created.

Hmm, my list is legitimately never ending, but maybe at the moment, Björk, Justin Bieber, and Skrillex.

Now that tour’s over I’m gearing up to play my first set of festivals and Prides in the United States, and then it's album mode, baby!