Biography

Following the release of the music video for "Friday", she began to receive multiple death threats by phone and by e-mail, which were later investigated by the Anaheim Police Department.

In 2010, her mother paid $4,000 for Los Angeles record label ARK Music Factory to produce a music video , which the Blacks retaining ownership of both the master and the video. The single produced, "Friday", written entirely by ARK, was released on YouTube on February 10, 2011, and received approximately 1,000 views in its first month of release. The video went viral on March 11, acquiring millions of views on YouTube in a matter of days, and became the most-talked-about topic on social networking site Twitter that week.

In the United States, her single, "Friday", sold over 442,000 copies. It debuted at number 72 on the Billboard Hot 100, before peaking at number 58 in its second week of release.

Before the original video for "Friday" was removed from YouTube on June 16, 2011 due to legal disputes with ARK, it had already amassed more than 167,000,000 views. It has since been re-uploaded and viewed almost 75,000,000, bringing the total number of views to over 240,000,000. [January 2015].

A cover version of her song, "Friday", was released by the cast of season two of the television series Glee (2009), eventually peaking at number 34 on the Billboard Hot 100.

At times, it feels like I'm being cyber bullied.

To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 and I see this random group of girls staring at me and taking pictures. But now I usually have my dad, who is a really tall and intimidating person with me, so he's kind of my bodyguard.

'Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in that song.

Dancing - that's really what I do at parties. I dance and I hang out with friends. That's my partying.

I am worth something and I will be big.