{"id":2062,"date":"2011-03-24T13:21:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T17:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2011-03-24T13:21:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T17:21:33","slug":"the-age-of-mediocrity-why-rebecca-black-is-everyones-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/the-age-of-mediocrity-why-rebecca-black-is-everyones-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 &#8220;The Age of Mediocrity: Why Rebecca Black Is Everyone\u2019s Fault&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/03\/24\/rebecca-black-mediocre-culture\/\">Mashable Reporting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Welcome to the age of mediocrity, where anyone with a computer, a video camera, and a few thousand dollars for production can be considered the next big thing.<\/p>\n<p>But as sad as that is, what does it say about us as a society?<\/p>\n<p>Analyzing \u201cFriday,\u201d it\u2019s not so much that Rebecca Black can\u2019t sing. She\u2019s about on par with some other pop stars, and \u2014 let\u2019s face it \u2014 they\u2019re not remaking\u00a0<em>The Marriage of Figaro<\/em> here. The problem is the mundane, almost soul crushing lyrics, recounting a day in the life of someone we care nothing about.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, Ms. Black has become the musical version of a bad\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/twitter\">Twitter<\/a> user, offering very little substance and value, but still feeling the need to overshare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We did this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mashable Reporting: Welcome to the age of mediocrity, where anyone with a computer, a video camera, and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-xg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3399,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/review-the-bruery-so-happens-its-tuesday\/","url_meta":{"origin":2062,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Review: The Bruery So Happens It\u2019s Tuesday","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"May 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"3.7\/5 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0AROMA\u00a09\/10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0APPEARANCE\u00a05\/5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0TASTE\u00a06\/10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0PALATE\u00a03\/5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0OVERALL\u00a014\/20 AdamChandler\u00a0(4239)\u00a0- Enfield, New Hampshire, USA - MAY 21, 2016 75CL, 2016 Variant. 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