You may or may not remember Jenna Rose - she gained media attention as a pre-teen with her single
"My Jeans", which was produced by the same company that made Rebecca Black's "Friday". "My Jeans" went viral on YouTube and received 14 million views but her follow up
"OMG" received massive criticism for being oversexualized and inappropriate (
even here on ONTD lol). Stupidly, most people directed their insults and criticism toward the 12 year old singer, calling her a "slut" and a "whore", etc.
Jenna recently uploaded a video detailing the abuse that went on behind the scenes of that music video, the way she was forced into a sexualized image she was too young to understand for the sake of viral clicks and the impact that had on her psychological as a young girl.
Summary of her comments:- The company knew that the controversial nature of the video would generate lots of revenue and essentially threw a 12 year old girl to the wolves for the sake of getting clicks.
- The company behind the music video basically told her parents to just go along with it because she was going to become ~a star~ using this provocative image.
- The controversial "Teen Boom Boom Doll" (a slang term for a sexually promiscuous teen) was completely unknown to her parents - they asked what it meant and were told "Don't worry about it, it doesn't mean anything, it's just a catchy tagline, etc." They naively believed it.
- The "Teen Boom Boom Doll" name apparently came from a very famous producer in the music industry that most of us would've heard of, but Jenna doesn't want to name names. He wanted to use the name as part of Jenna's brand to shop her around to labels.
- People online constantly called her a "slut", a "whore" etc even though she was just a 12 year old who hadn't even had her first kiss yet.
- Points out that these types of lyrics wouldn't have been so harshly criticized if she had been older, but bizarrely, people chose to get pissed at a 12 year old with zero control over her music or image.
- The company said the song was originally supposed to be sung by Britney Spears but it ended up not working out and went to Jenna instead, probably part of why the lyrics were so age inappropriate.
- She feels really, really bad about contributing to the sexualization of young girls. The comments were really horrifying and made growing up very hard, she cried constantly due to the online abuse.
Source:Jenna's Youtube Channel