I have made it my life mission to get Rebecca Black’s song “Friday” to #1 on the ITunes singles chart.

And I think you should help.

Stick with me here.

When I woke up this morning, I had no idea who Rebecca Black was–which makes me about a week behind the times. Rebecca, for those of you who live under a rock (like I apparently do), is a 13-year-old girl from Anaheim Hills, CA, whose Mom paid $2000 for a little production company to record a pop single for her. Every little girl wants to be a pop star. It used to be a princess, but then people started to take a good hard look at the British royals and reconsider.

Now let me just go on record and say this: I think Rebecca Black is actually pretty talented. I mean, let’s be clear: she’s not Kelly Clarkson talented, but she’s also not William Hung talented. But the world… well, the world seems to disagree. Check out the video:

What’s brilliantly embarrassing about this effort is the SONGWRITING (plus the degree to which she’s been auto-tuned when she basically proved this morning on GMA that she can sing).

Somehow, Tosh.0 discovered the track and posted the video on their blog last week. The rest is insane interweb history; the track has 17 million hits. on YouTube 17 MILLION. (OK, a good 500,000 of them are me, but she’s still doing pretty good if you cross those off.)

Look, the truth is, the track speaks for itself. Rebecca, if you’re out there, I hope you go on to sell more albums than Britney; seriously, you sing better than her. And I, for one, have already bought a copy of your single–and I’ll buy the whole album when it comes out. And I think everybody else should go buy the track too, if only to make up for the emotional distress your songwriters have caused you.

Because, despite having “collaborated with Grammy songwriter/producer Herbie Crichlow, Grammy-nominated record producer Dinavon Bythwood from "The Ghostwriters" writing duo, Charlie Mason (Hannah Montana), Australian producer Paul Wiltshire (Backstreet Boys)”, songwriters  Clarence Jey and Patrice Wilson suck to a degree previously unimagined by man.

OK, but why am I REALLY writing this blog entry?

It’s to share with you the INSANE number of covers that have ALREADY been recorded of “Friday”. I mean, seriously, it’s possible there may be more of them than there are of “Mack the Knife”. And it’s been SEVEN FRICKIN DAYS.

And, I’m also going to issue a challenge. If a local Binghamton band sends me a kick-ass cover of Friday, I’m going to bat to convince Lori that we have to play it on the morning show. Get it together, people.

Anyway, since I can’t fit all thousand existing on my blog, I’ve picked 10 fine specimens to share…