Age of the Exhibitionist
About this Album
Age of the Exhibitionist is Rebecca Black's second studio album, released September 4, 2026, and recorded across 2024 and 2025[1]. It became her first project to chart anywhere, reaching number 75 on the UK Album Downloads Chart[1].
Across twelve tracks, the record blends dance-pop with hyperpop, electroclash, bloghouse, and progressive house textures, drawing comparisons to Born This Way-era Lady Gaga and Slayyyter[2][4]. Black has described the album as "a curation of self," built around reclaiming the word exhibitionism from its narrower sexual connotation and applying it instead to the broader condition of living a life on constant, voluntary display[8].
The album's throughline connects fame, digital-age self-surveillance, queer visibility, and the particular exhaustion of being watched since childhood, a condition Black has lived with since her viral 2011 single "Friday" made her one of the internet's first mass targets of public mockery[6]. Critical reception has been mixed to positive: some reviewers called it some of her finest work and praised its maximalist confidence[3], while others found individual tracks derivative or lacking subtlety[5].