Rebecca Black is opening up a couple of super-sketchy factor that occurred in her previous!
The notorious Friday singer first went viral along with her pre-teen hit greater than a decade in the past. And lately, along with working by her singing profession as a younger grownup, she’s additionally been trying again on viral fame.
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On Tuesday, she took to TikTok to recount one notably embarrassing episode from her previous. The 25-year-old star set her video to the soundtrack of Nicki Minaj‘s tune Super Freaky Girl, and sung together with the rhythm of the beat. In her sing-song story, Black recounted how she was 14 years previous in about 2011 when she and her mom, Georgina Marquez Kelly, have been contacted by a “distant relative” residing in Mexico.
Black began off the story:
“One thing about me is my mom is a Mexican immigrant, and when I was 14 years old she got hit up by a distant family relative who told her there was a Rebecca Black fan club in this small town in Mexico, and they also wanted to give me the keys to the city.”
Without contemplating that this “Rebecca Black Fan Club” may not be what it appeared, the singer recalled how she and her mom jumped onto a airplane for Mexico.
Once they acquired to the city, they confirmed as much as what they thought was going to be a meet-and-greet. However, they have been taken right into a room with “an audience of about 20 people,” all sporting matching t-shirts. They additionally went into one other room, the place dozens of males in fits have been standing.
Rebecca recalled:
“They take us to some big fancy house, and then they usher us into a room full of men in suits. I meet them all. They sit me and my mom in front of the step-and-repeat with a table and microphones. It kind of looks like a press conference, and my mom is next to me acting as my translator.”
People out of the blue began asking Rebecca questions on politics and voting. Some folks within the room requested questions on Enrique Peña Nieto, who was vying on the time to turn into Mexico’s subsequent President. With her mother performing as translator, {the teenager} tried to play it cool:
“People in the crowd start asking me questions, like, ‘How do you like Mexico?’ and ‘How do you feel about voting rights?’ and ‘How do you feel about the presidential candidate of Mexico?’ at the time. So, I’m like, ‘Yeah, great. He’s great. Voting’s great. I’m sure it’ll all be great,’ not really knowing what I’m talking about.”
OMG!
It was solely after boarding her flight again to the United States that Black realized she could have been duped. She started enthusiastic about how she by no means acquired the keys to any metropolis, like she was initially promised.
She additionally defined how Twitter headlines began to tip her off that one thing was amiss:
“I’m scrolling on Twitter before the flight takes off, and I start seeing headlines about me and how I have endorsed the presidential candidate of Mexico at the time. And then I realize that my entire family was just scammed by this distant relative who worked for his presidential campaign into endorsing the presidential candidate of Mexico at the time. And the world thinks I’ve done it as a 14-year-old when I’ve never heard of this man in my life.”
Oh noooooo!
Watch her complete TikTok reveal (under):
@msrebeccablack #onethingaboutme ????
♬ Super Freaky Girl – Nicki Minaj
Not lengthy after Black’s unlucky encounter, Nieto gained his election, and served as Mexico’s sixty fourth president by November 2018. He endured low approval rankings throughout his time in workplace, although, and was accused by the Mexican Attorney General’s Office of allegedly mishandling political contributions. He was even accused at one level of plagiarizing his regulation faculty thesis! So this was possibly not the most effective search for Black to wade into method again when.
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Of course, she was simply 14 on the time, so there’s no query she was put into a really uncomfortable state of affairs.
Still, what a clumsy occasion!
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