Rebecca Black's "Friday" a Rip-Off of '90s Hit "Saturday Night" by Whigfield?

By:OK! Staff

March 23 2011, Published 7:09 a.m. ET

Simon Cowell is certainly a fan of Rebecca Black, praising the 13-year-old singer in the press for her catchy ditty "Friday" which has over 38 million views on YouTube. Simon also pointed out that "weekday songs" always seem to cause a public outcry, likening "Friday" to the 90's song "Saturday Night" by Whigfield. But did Rebecca rip off the hit?

No, but Simon's comparison did bring a very important fact to light.

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Get the public angry and you will get noticed! He should know as his angry, rude, mean comments always made headlines when he was a judge on American Idol!

Rebecca, 13, is just pursuing her love for singing and how can we blame her?

Simon certainly doesn't.

“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. Any song to do with the weekend annoys you," the mogul told Entertainment Weekly recently. "It reminds me of ‘Saturday Night,’ do you remember that 1994 song by Whigfield? 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. But the fact that it’s making people so angry is brilliant.”