Simon Cowell 'loves' Rebecca Black (PA)
YouTube star Rebecca Black
The X Factor guru, 51, gushed about the 13-year-old teen's hit song to Entertainment Weekly revealing that he is keen to meet her.
He said: 'I love it! I’ve never seen anything cause so much controversy.' 'I think it’s genius. The fact that everyone’s getting upset about it is hysterical.'
Black's video for her debut single Friday quickly became a YouTube hit after it premiered a week ago and has now been watched over 26 million times.
Rebecca was blasted for her heavily Auto-Tuned vocals and the track's shockingly simple lyrics with many music fans on Twitter rubbishing it as one of the 'worst' songs they'd ever listened to.
But Cowell said it was great that the song was proving so controversial.
Watch Rebecca Black's video Friday below
'It’s what we call a ‘hair-dryer song,’ a song girls sing into their hair dryers as they’re getting ready to go out,' he added.
'But the fact that it’s making people so angry is brilliant.'
Simon also told People magazine that he was keen to meet the young star, who has revealed she felt 'cyber-bullied' by all the attention.
'I want to meet her. Anyone who can create this much controversy within a week, I want to meet. I love people like that.'
Black has said she wants to record an acoustic version of the song so that people can see what a good singer she really is.
'I want to show people there’s more to me than they think,' she told The Daily Beast.
Her record company Ark Music Factory, put together songs and videos for teenage girls who 'want to be discovered' for a fee.
Meanwhile, Cowell has confirmed music producer LA Reid as the first judge on the American version of The X Factor while pop diva Nicki Minaj is also rumoured to be joining them on the panel.
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/music/858581-rebecca-blacks-friday-is-genius-says-simon-cowell#ixzz1HDB91AAQ
