― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
1. The way she has a frowny pooping sun written on the Thursday page of her planner
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
2. and that she then wrote "Hooray!" on Friday
3. she picked a very nice note to sing and was v wise in not straying far from it
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
4. "with chicken on it, on everybody's Russian"
5. the redundancy of "Gotta get down to the bus stop" followed immediately by "gotta catch the bus". Like, what else would you possibly do at the bus stop?
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
6. ...except for FRIENDS ROLLIN UP!!! Which seat is she gonna take??!?
7. Why the fuck are you standing up in the back of a car that is driving down the highway? I can't even.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
8. FYI when today is Friday, tomorrow is Saturday, and Sunday comes afterwards.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
9. Yesterday was Thursday
― Buff Orpington (Abbbottt), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
10. TGI Friday's marketing ppl, did you hear this?>?
― Buff Orpington (Abbbottt), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
11. there's this moment around 2:53 that makes me feel like Kristen Bell and NatPo fucked and then had a baby and that baby grew up and then fucked the Bird Lady from KitH and then that baby reached adolescence, and then made this music video.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
12. beats a level of Super Mario World at 0:44
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
13. bowl/seery-ohl
― Buff Orpington (Abbbottt), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
14. Green screen halo on the way to the full moon prom
― Buff Orpington (Abbbottt), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
15. how obnoxiously she enunciates the "r" sound in "partying"
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
16. featured rapper going "R! B! REBECCA BLACK!"
― teledyldonix, Sunday, 13 March 2011 09:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
17. boy in the back seat beckoning
― teledyldonix, Sunday, 13 March 2011 09:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS TO MY ATTN, this is definitely the best
18. Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun!
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Sunday, 13 March 2011 12:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
― oppet, Sunday, 13 March 2011 13:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
I do feel a bit sorry for this girl, possibly.
― oppet, Sunday, 13 March 2011 13:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
So certain it was a (solid) parody that I was ready to mock people who fell for it, but after reading about the guys behind it I'm stunned. Still, I'm sure someone is taking the piss at some level, even if they do it in a cynical money-grabbing way.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 13 March 2011 13:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's easy to imagine she's singing about fried egg.
― bendy, Sunday, 13 March 2011 14:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
19. The rapper's smugface at 3:25
I'm surprised it took so long for a business like this to spring up. When people are dropping $300k on a party or $150k on a car for their little cherubs, getting them to fork out a few grand for a music video seems like a potentially profitable venture. Ultimately, it's just an updated, super-rich, version of the customised books you got when you were ten that had your name / photo in the story.
Of course, you could argue that a few of the legit pop stars around at the moment didn't have a particularly different route to fame.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 13 March 2011 14:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
20. Underage driving
― BLOOMPS 2012 (rip van wanko), Sunday, 13 March 2011 14:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
There does come a point when it's slightly creepy. 2:25 is solid gold though.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 13 March 2011 14:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, kinda struggling to find a meaningful, useful difference between these and, e.g., Ke$ha, who is equally as retarded and equally manufactured but doesn't have the excuse of age or ambitious stage parents. It's razor-thin line between "Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy" and "Hannah Montana is wearing my jeans."
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Sunday, 13 March 2011 14:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
21. Not wearing seatbelts because it could get in the way of "FUN FUN FUN".
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 15:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
22. Shading the girl on her left by singing "my friend is by my right".
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 15:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
23. The puzzling omission of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
― Mark, Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
i thought this was real until it got to the bridge
― Whiney On The Goon (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
A dramatic reading of Rebecca Black’s “Friday”
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
what does "real" mean in this context?
― Mark, Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^^^^^^
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
<3
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
So certain it was a (solid) parody that I was ready to mock people who fell for it, but after reading about the guys behind it I'm stunned.
When I first saw this I thought 'it's like some totally regular and unremarkable kid got a wish granted somehow to be a pop video artist' and...I was right.
― Buff Orpington (Abbbottt), Sunday, 13 March 2011 17:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
24. the first few comments (pre-"fame") on the video from users that COINCIDENTALLY joined youtube the same day this video was posted, including:
"Song is fun, very upbeat and age appropriate. Catchy tune. Singer has a powerful voice with great range. Harmonies show off her ability. She demonstrates great confidence."
"I like this video and this song! Hey, who doesn't look forward to Friday and the weekend? These kids have it right. And she can hit some diva notes!"
― teledyldonix, Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
I haven't posted in--literally--ages, but as soon as I sat down and properly watched this I had to come see what ILX had to say about it.
I really love the rap feature. "Tina? You know a black dude, right?" "Uh. Yeah, Rebecca. Why...?"
― Andrew Kornfan, Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Maybe this is a stretch, but this whole idea seems like an outgrowth of the fact that the rich in the U.S. have gotten so much richer. The top 1% has more money than they know what to do with so they pay $50k or whatever something like this costs to have their kids be pop stars. Within a day or two this will have a million views. Crazy times.
― Mark, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pick a parody/reinterpretation, any parody/reinterpretation:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rebecca+black+friday&aq=f
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
Personally I'm all about this, but I would be:
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
^ this is probably better than anything Kevin Shields might ever deign to release
― corey, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
She should change her name to Rebecca Black Friday, or maybe just Black Friday.
― Mark, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hard to beat this one as far as passionate delivery:
― Mark, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
25. How she can get up at 07:00 and still straighten her hair in time for school.
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
The happy hardcore version resulting here rules:
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Yesterday was Thirsty, Thirsty/Today it's Fried Eggs, Fried Eggs"
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
1. omg2. ...how does this thing manage to be an actual earworm >:(
― lex pretend, Sunday, 13 March 2011 23:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
there's this moment around 2:53 that makes me feel like Kristen Bell and NatPo fucked and then had a baby and that baby grew up and then fucked the Bird Lady from KitH and then that baby reached adolescence, and then made this music video.
I want to marry this sentence, it is such a thing of beauty. And so accurate.
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Sunday, 13 March 2011 23:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 March 2011 00:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
This is quickly becoming my favourite moment:
― prolego, Monday, 14 March 2011 00:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
Imagine what tomorrow at school is going to be like for these girls. They went home on Friday afternoon being nobodies, and they'll go back Monday being the toast of the whole internet.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 March 2011 00:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
I just can’t tell if this is serious or not. If you look at all the other videos uploaded by www.youtube.com/trizzy66, they are all music videos for serious songs that are trying to promote young artists who are supposedly part of “Ark Music Group.” They even have an official website, www.arkmusicgroup.com
I am just really confused. If it supposed to be funny and a parody video of a Top 40 songs, it is funny. If it is supposed to be a real song and a video working to promote a young artist as the website claims to do, it is terrible. Either way, Rebecca Black is blowin’ up the internet. However, how will this effect the legitimacy of the other “artists” Ark Music Group supposedly represents? What happens to those people now? Are they part of a comedy website, or a musical promotions site? Or…can it be both?
― harlan, Monday, 14 March 2011 00:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
26. Okay there are a ton of little goofs and off moments that would have been edited from a PRO video but my favorite and the most subtle is the tiniest little eye shift to the left at 2:05
― BLOOMPS 2012 (rip van wanko), Monday, 14 March 2011 00:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
There's an explanation here:
http://www.bohemian.com/citysound/?p=7181
― Mark, Monday, 14 March 2011 00:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh god that horrible nasal autotuned voice why did I click on this
― one time, something happy craz (Trayce), Monday, 14 March 2011 00:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
makes me think of
― one time, something happy craz (Trayce), Monday, 14 March 2011 00:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think i had a fit watching this.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Monday, 14 March 2011 00:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
so hilair
― plax (ico), Monday, 14 March 2011 00:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
27. multiple neon-lit space needles going by in the background on the highway shot
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Monday, 14 March 2011 01:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
GIT'ING DOWN ON FRIDAY
― Not the real Village People, Monday, 14 March 2011 01:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
dunno, I have an eerie feeling that all these girls have leukemia or CF or holes in their hearts, and Ace Music is giving them their first and last chance to feel like popstars before the inevitable happens. the over-the-top makeup, the vocal effects...I'm sure the producers are working very hard to make these girls look and sound like happy, healthy teens, but in the end you just can't autotune the pain of a dying child.
just listen to the way Rebecca stretches out "Sunday comes afterweeeeeeerds", as if she knows that her life is slipping away and she wants to make it last as long as she can, surrounded by the friends she loves (and a black guy).
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, 14 March 2011 02:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
:/
― BLOOMPS 2012 (rip van wanko), Monday, 14 March 2011 02:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
ok, never mind my cynicism. this one is quite good (and not in a jokey/ironic way) so long as you fast-forward past dude w/ goatee:
&
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, 14 March 2011 02:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
They just gave it an official remix, striking while the iron is hot!
― Mark, Monday, 14 March 2011 02:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Hey Kids! Wouldn't ya rather listen to this song...listen to this song rather than Charlie Sheen?"
^yes, that's a real line in the remix.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 March 2011 02:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
The "educating you on the days of the week" part seems like it might have been written in response to the YouTube comments of the last 36 hours, trying to pass it off as tongue-in-cheek.
― Mark, Monday, 14 March 2011 02:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, these guys fucking suck
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 14 March 2011 02:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Guys, we're laughing AT you, not WITH you. Trying to roll along with it and chuckle with us and pat our backs is just going to make you look like even bigger fucking tools.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 14 March 2011 02:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
Tomorrow is Pi Day so if their school forces them to acknowledge this I can imagine some kids might replace the chorus with "Pi Day Pi Day."
― billstevejim, Monday, 14 March 2011 02:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Also by the time next Friday actually happens most of us will have moved onto something more substantial.
― billstevejim, Monday, 14 March 2011 02:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
a million views
― dead perez (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 14 March 2011 03:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
i like this one!
― scott seward, Monday, 14 March 2011 03:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
I fully expect at least one of these artists to be hailed as a genius in a 2k-word post on the rolling teenpop thread.
― Mark, Monday, 14 March 2011 03:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's a smart idea. star camp for girls. they do a pretty good job.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 March 2011 03:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
i wonder what they charge.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 March 2011 03:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I looked on their website earlier and saw nothing
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 14 March 2011 03:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
you need the secret password. i did learn that little naynay is dropping a new album soon. that's always good news.
http://arkmusicfactory.com/
― scott seward, Monday, 14 March 2011 03:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
someone should start a company where you get to make videos with your favorite pop and rap stars from the 80's and 90's. some of those people could probably use the money right about now. like rock camp for budding musicians, but you get to post the results on youtube and be a star.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 March 2011 03:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ark Music Factory's Independent Record Label is based in the heart of the entertainment capital of the world, Hollywood, California. Our producers and team of collaborating writers have worked with artists like Cindy Santini (US - Fontana/Universal), Miley Cyrus, Backstreet Boys, Ashley Tisdale, Ibrahim Maiga (Slovakia), Psquare (Africa - 2009 MTV Best Group), Samantha Lombardi (Australia - FourScreen USA), LadyBird (Latvia - Best Pop Artist 'Top of the Pops') etc., and have also produced music for US Emmy winning and four time Emmy nominated Nickelodeon Television (Growing Up Creepie). ARK's main objective is to discover future #1 artists and produce the next outstanding star. Our established relationships within the entertainment industry umbrella keeps us committed to producing solid results for the artists' career, whether it be an independent release/distribution, a major label signing or an original licensing opportunity on Film/TV. Our team at ARK have certainly recognized that raw talent alone is sufficient to get noticed. However, to further advance as a professional within the music industry, it is absolutely essential for an artist to have hit singles and a well executed image - all within that marketable package!We at ARK make it possible for emerging independent artists from a variety of popular genres to be discovered, defined and delivered, to advance in their chosen career and be successful.
We at ARK make it possible for emerging independent artists from a variety of popular genres to be discovered, defined and delivered, to advance in their chosen career and be successful.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, 14 March 2011 04:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Rebecca Black is a fun, loving, 13 year old. She loves to sing, dance and act, and she is always looking to try something new. Now in 8th grade, she landed the lead role in her school musical, Oklahoma! She started dance classes when she was three years old and has continued studying dance since. She studied Jazz, Ballet, Hip Hop, and Tap. She starred in a local commercial when she was 7 for the building toy Puzzlecraft. She participated in a patriotic performing group. performing at over 50 locations including singing the Star Spangled Banner at the Angels Stadium. At age 11, she signed with a modeling management company. She started vocal lessons at 10 years old, and she's continued with it ever since. Singing is her passion, and it's what she loves to do. In the summers of 2008 and 2009 she participated in a musical theatre summer camp. When she started going to her local public school, she immediately auditioned for musical theatre, and now succeeds with flying colors. She starred in the school's rendition of Guys and Dolls, and their variety shows such as Showtime America, Broadway, USA, and Star Search. This past summer, she visited New York and participated in various workshops with cast members of West Side Story, Memphis, and In the Heights.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, 14 March 2011 04:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
28. One of the dudes is named John Benett Ramsey
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 14 March 2011 05:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
LOL I noticed that too.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 13:26 (Yesterday)
This is cracking me up.
― one time, something happy craz (Trayce), Monday, 14 March 2011 05:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
She is trending worldwide.
― billstevejim, Monday, 14 March 2011 05:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
I just hope she never realises she's trending in about the same way Tommy Wiseau has.
― one time, something happy craz (Trayce), Monday, 14 March 2011 05:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Well every one of these tweets is negative... Maybe she can't read.
― billstevejim, Monday, 14 March 2011 05:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Well she seemed to be able to be able to make it to the Bus Stop...
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 14 March 2011 05:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
she recognized the sign :(
― corey, Monday, 14 March 2011 05:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
29. The fact that she is standing on some sort of elevated platform in front of a crowd, singing to them that it's Friday. I am imagining some sort of Dark City-esque alternate universe where everybody's short-term memory is constantly wiped out and no one knows what day it is except for Rebecca Black, so they all have to travel to her to find out what day it is. Except they're aware of--and embarassed about--their memory condition, so to make them feel better she sings every day of the week as a fun song.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 14 March 2011 05:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
30. "My friend is on my right..." Her friend on the left must have been devastated by the snub.
― Simon H. Shit (Simon H.), Monday, 14 March 2011 06:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
If she's 13 what the heck are they all doing driving cars?
― one time, something happy craz (Trayce), Monday, 14 March 2011 06:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Has anyone slowed this down to 60% yet like "Gimme Pizza Slow"?
― billstevejim, Monday, 14 March 2011 06:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
I would like to know Andrew WK's opinion on this song.
― billstevejim, Monday, 14 March 2011 06:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
stage manager parents are the scariest
― deej, Monday, 14 March 2011 06:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
31. singing in front of a tree trunk
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Monday, 14 March 2011 07:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
32. she questions whether to sit in the front seat or back seat, yet there is never really a choice--the two front seats are already taken.
― prolego, Monday, 14 March 2011 07:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
i thought this video was pretty boring & not very memeworthy -- just seemed like a cheaply made video involving a girl that really loved 'lizzie mcguire' -- if bad green screen is all it takes to be a meme these days, someone should dig up some videos from the 90s
the song is fucking terrible tho & i don't really understand how it could be released to the internet
― J0rdan S., Monday, 14 March 2011 07:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
all in all this is a far, far cry from "take u to da movies"
― J0rdan S., Monday, 14 March 2011 07:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
the bridge is something else tho
― J0rdan S., Monday, 14 March 2011 07:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think the funniest thing about this is that somehow, despite...everything, it's still an earworm. how was this stuck in my head as i went to sleep last night and then STILL THERE WHEN I WOKE UP? after just one viewing, most of which was spent making the :o face?
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 March 2011 07:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
33. never gets that bowl of cereal or catches a bus
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Monday, 14 March 2011 07:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
probably of this trending every friday for the next 6 months? FUN FUN FUN
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Monday, 14 March 2011 08:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
34. Autotune moment #1: the way that the word 'Friday' is transformed into 'Fra-ee-day'.
35. Autotune moment #2: the tortured-robot scream at ~2:52.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Monday, 14 March 2011 10:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
36. The background "WEEK-end, WEEK-end"
― corey, Monday, 14 March 2011 14:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
so awesome on ned's shoegaze version when they all shout after "party!". sounds very crazy and very cool.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 March 2011 14:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah that was a favorite moment of mine too. On the sped-up version the 'FUNFUNFUNFUN' bit is the killer.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 March 2011 14:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
doesnt really seem like english is her first language
― plax (ico), Monday, 14 March 2011 14:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
I laid down to go to sleep last night and this chorus was ringing in my head, it was strangely similar to tinnitus.
― Mark, Monday, 14 March 2011 14:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
the little half-step glissando thing she does going into "FER-IGHDEY" keeps coming back to me
― corey, Monday, 14 March 2011 14:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's an earworm because Baby by Justin Bieber with the word Baby changed to Friday.
And I'm like Friday Friday Friday OH.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 14 March 2011 14:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
maybe if there's enough backlash people will start writing melodies composed of more than two notes
― corey, Monday, 14 March 2011 14:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
Guys we are starting to repeat ourselves (#30 and #34)
Surely we can come up with more
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 14 March 2011 14:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
has anyone pointed out the hidden adult driver?
― corey, Monday, 14 March 2011 14:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
"5. the redundancy of "Gotta get down to the bus stop" followed immediately by "gotta catch the bus". Like, what else would you possibly do at the bus stop?"
cop a dime bag.
― errant flynn, Monday, 14 March 2011 14:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
i couldn't sleep last night because this song wouldn't leave my head
― teledyldonix, Monday, 14 March 2011 14:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Butterflies is the top Ark Music joint:
― errant flynn, Monday, 14 March 2011 14:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Songs In Rebecca Black's Day Planner
― dead perez (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 14 March 2011 15:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
38. when you watch it in 720, you can see a zit under her right eye and now i can;t unsee it
― dead perez (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 14 March 2011 15:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
the whole "yesterday was thursday, today is friday...tomorrow is saturday, and sunday comes afterwords" is kinda zen...or totally retarded, i can't decide
― gr8080 sings the blues (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 14 March 2011 16:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
The inevitable dubstep remix:
& here is "Friday" performed by ~Bob Dylan~
― prolego, Monday, 14 March 2011 18:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
Dylan thing is funny, but I wish it was a little faster and more picky/strummy. Right now, it sounds like a Pink Floyd ballad.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 March 2011 18:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
― lex pretend, Monday, March 14, 2011 3:45 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark
This morning at the office, my coworker asked me if I’d heard this new internet sensation by some girl named Rebecca Black. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I realized it was already playing in my head when he asked. So I cried.
― shudder, Monday, 14 March 2011 18:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
They photoshopped "Friday" on the Dylan 45 but didn't think to give R. Black the writing credit.
― i been serving humble pie since he had small faces (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
39. "chillin in the frontside, in the backseat"? no, token rapper, we can all see that there's no homies in the backseat and no homies riding shotgun. you are so very alone.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
40. that one zit on her right cheek that they left untouched so that she'll have something to work with when Neutrogena comes callin.
41. sympathy zits on two of her female friends' cheeks.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
42. Silly Bandz and a white BIEBER FEVER bracelet around her wrist in the living room scene
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
― dead perez (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, March 13, 2011 11:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
2.3
― I love victorias but I've chosen maidenform (Edward III), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
Not sure whether she's going to be mortified or loving the attention.
― Ha ha ha ha. Jack my swag. (ShariVari), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Dylan" version is great - helping to wipe the original from my brain.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 14 March 2011 19:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://twitter.com/#!/_RebeccaBlack_
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Monday, 14 March 2011 19:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, March 14, 2011 2:45 PM (20 minutes ago)
correction: the white bracelet says NEVER SAY NEVER
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, 14 March 2011 19:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
and that twitter account is a fake.
arent all twitter accounts fake?
― ullr saves (gbx), Monday, 14 March 2011 19:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
not courtney love's!
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, 14 March 2011 19:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Why are people talking about this video again?
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 March 2011 19:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
what would you like to talk about?
― scott seward, Monday, 14 March 2011 19:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
i just saw this thing last night for the first time that's why i was talking about it. and i was stoned when i watched it so it kind of made an impression.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 March 2011 19:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Monday, 14 March 2011 19:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
So basically Ark Music is a vanity production house for children of the rich:
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 March 2011 19:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
No, that's actually the real twitter account. There were about 10 other fake ones, though.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 March 2011 19:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
we have already had that link and links to their website and discussion of those links on here. please try and keep up with this.
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― scott seward, Monday, 14 March 2011 19:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
from arkmusicfactory.com:
I have no official Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr.* Posted by Rebecca Black on March 13, 2011 at 8:47pm
* Posted by Rebecca Black on March 13, 2011 at 8:47pm
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, 14 March 2011 19:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh, okay.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 March 2011 19:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Sounds like a freestyle over Party in the U.S.A.
― A Very Small Bag of Phrases (Eazy), Monday, 14 March 2011 19:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's definitely her twitter, she's deleted previous tweets she made where she criticised Justin Beiber for using autotune and called someone a cunt.
― prolego, Monday, 14 March 2011 19:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
I would pay good money to see Andrew WK cover "Friday"... or is that too meta?
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Monday, March 14, 2011 12:18 PM (26 minutes ago)
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Monday, 14 March 2011 19:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
i called justin beiber a cunt on twitter once but it wasn't my twitter rebecca black started a twitter account using my name.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 March 2011 19:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
auto cunt justin beiber
― ice cr?m, Monday, 14 March 2011 19:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
_RebeccaBlack_ Rebecca Black @VederaMusic my family has an airport there! Hope you enjoy the stay :]23 May
― oppet, Monday, 14 March 2011 20:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
43. Girl with weird beauty mark riding shotgun making bored handmotion at 0.52
44. Drama! That girl gets ditched for green screeen moon riding party scene, replaced with less-bored looking girl who appears to enjoy friday
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 14 March 2011 20:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
When Rebecca Black's Friday comesI'll stand down by the doorAnd catch the listeners when they dive from the fourteenth floor
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 March 2011 20:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
A+
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 14 March 2011 20:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
wtf is this song
loooooooooooooooool
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Monday, 14 March 2011 20:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm sorry but this is just XD
― ullr saves (gbx), Monday, 14 March 2011 20:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
I love how the song boils down to: yay Friday do I sit in the front or the back seat of the car
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 14 March 2011 20:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
will no one explain to me where the hell this came from
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Monday, 14 March 2011 20:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's been posted a few times!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 March 2011 20:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Someone posted the youtube video on tumblr last Thursday or Friday and over the weekend it set the internet aflame.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 March 2011 20:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg I was interrupted so I didn't hear the bridge the first time
also I know she's autotuned to death but still why does she sound like that
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Monday, 14 March 2011 20:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ark Music Factory was launched last month by Patrice Wilson and Clarence Jey—pictured here with one of their pop stars-in-training, J’Rose.
I am DYING
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Monday, 14 March 2011 20:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
the autotune makes her voice sound like a doorbell
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 14 March 2011 20:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
DJP I am so ecstatic that you're finally here
you should put together a big choral version of this because if you get it up online by Wednesday it will blow the fuck up
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 14 March 2011 20:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
btw this is all time lol
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 14 March 2011 20:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think ILX could write a 'Friday' song that would out-mundane Friday even.
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 14 March 2011 20:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
I know a whole bunch of professional singers and I don't think a single one of them could get through the bridge without wetting themselves
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
even better
― ullr saves (gbx), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Still lol at this one.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 March 2011 21:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg the sped-up version
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
it just needs full-on happy-hardcore thump and it would be PERFECT
want so bad to hear Hilliard Ensemble singing "We We We We So Excited"
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
funfunfunfun
going round and round in my head
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 March 2011 21:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
I have listened to this like 6 times in a row
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
everyone's not going to be laughing when a week from now it's revealed that this is an aural version of the video from "The Ring"
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
all right you guys, don't let me down: rebecca black vs. pomplamoose
― accredited butter grader and dairy technologist (reddening), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
PS: PARTYING PARTYING YEAH
omg the sped-up version...it just needs full-on happy-hardcore thump and it would be PERFECT
Completely OTM.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 March 2011 21:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
which seat can i taaa-aaake?
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 March 2011 21:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
so who wants to guess what late night show gets her first and whether it happens this Friday or next
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's like Small Wonder hit puberty and made a song (note: haven't watched the video yet, too exposed at work)
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
KICKIN IN THE FRONT SEATKICKIN IN THE BACK SEAT
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 14 March 2011 21:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
I still hold out hope that the rapper is saying "I BE REBECCA BLACK" because that would make just about as much sense as anything else in this song
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
J'Rose rockin the fake frown
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg dan if you haven't watched the video yet you have a TREAT ahead of you. seriously her charisma is something to behold
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 March 2011 21:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
I can't wait for you to experience the full joy of the video DP
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 14 March 2011 21:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh my God Dan you're seriously...no video yet? go home early, do what you have to do
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
The guest rapper looks like Gary Sheffield.
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
Discovered the video at 4 am with a bunch of my fellow students pulling an all-nighter in the library. Weekend-long ILX/internet break meant that our first exposure to it was on no sleep and very little sanity. Laughed so hard I cried. My brain is still singing it.
The rapper swaying along to the beat in the car at the end is an undersung moment.
― Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill The Radio Star (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
Also, people who are the most "amazed" at the songwriting/performance of this song probably don't have kids/nephews/nieces and have been subjected to hours of Radio Disney, of which this would probably be a highpoint tbqh.
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
...or Frank Kogan^^^
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
― prolego, Monday, 14 March 2011 21:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Fallon would be all over this.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 March 2011 21:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's like Small Wonder hit puberty and made a song
The part about how Sunday comes afterward is esp robot/vulcan
― da croupier, Monday, 14 March 2011 21:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
I would have gone home already but I am actually helping someone now
my lols will have to wait
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
There's a certain Phil Oakey quality to the lyrics too
― da croupier, Monday, 14 March 2011 21:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
surprised no one has intercut this with "WHIPPED CREAM POURING LIKE WATERFALLS" yet
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^needs .gif
― Roz, Monday, 14 March 2011 21:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
So this is like some tween Rodd Keith song-poem shit?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 March 2011 21:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
the kid driving the car looks like my little brother
― brigitte beardo (donna rouge), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
whoa this is seriously bolt-from-blue insightful imo
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
It'll be worth it.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 March 2011 21:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
― prolego, Monday, 14 March 2011 21:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Monday, March 14, 2011 4:31 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
hahahaha totally!
― gr8080 sings the blues (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 14 March 2011 21:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
niiice. was lolling more at the bit at 0:38 tho. xp
― Roz, Monday, 14 March 2011 22:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
― teledyldonix, Monday, 14 March 2011 22:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://arkmusicfactory.com/page/store-1
as hideously lolful as this is, it's got nothing on that Mac Miller shit in the frat rap thread. they should duet together as the Sonny&Cher from Hell
totally pwns Pomplemoose, inspires thoughts of Friday Fun instead of suicide
― herbal bert (herb albert), Monday, 14 March 2011 22:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
where is his cape?
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 14 March 2011 22:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean when it starts she looks like she's trying to make armpit fart noises and then it just falls apart. Even she doesn't appear to know what she's doing here.
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Monday, 14 March 2011 22:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
Much better!
― prolego, Monday, 14 March 2011 22:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
prolego killin it itt
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Monday, 14 March 2011 22:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
― history mayne, Monday, 14 March 2011 22:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
hold on there's no way this rapper's name is actually Pato
― J0rdan S., Monday, 14 March 2011 23:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
KBP needs to be informed of this
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
The most compelling thing for me is the look of panic that intermittently flashes across her face, as if she realises the futility of her brief fame even before it happens.
Top PR work by Ark Entertainment though.
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
so were the other kids in the video actually her friends, or were they just paid to be her friends?
― sarahel, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
holy shit
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
OMG the gifs
― one time, something happy craz (Trayce), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
i just feel sorry for her.
― sarahel, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
her daytime car friends look p overwhelmed by life, not incl. the enthusiastic backseat beckoner pictured above.
― plax (ico), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Its like a professional version of those insta-studios you can go to, karaoke it up in front of a greenscreen and then burn it to CD.
― le grenouille mange le pomplamousse (Trayce), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
do you think she'd cry if she read this thread?
― sarahel, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
yes, but only because today is monday
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
45. That not only is Rebecca Black's school bus stop designated with a large, diamond-shaped yellow sign, like you would see for a curve in the road or a lane merge, it was 'shopped in for fear that we'd think she was just a LOSER loitering by herself on the sidewalk. Just in case we didn't hear her talking about the BUS TWICE in the lyrics.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
guys i still have this stuck in my head
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
worse than even that, i think i'm beginning to like it.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
i like how the lyrics expose the inherent mundanity of stream-of-consciousness, it's like...the brain in repose
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
Interview them all for a Guardian piece, Lex.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
i am pretty sure i like it
fun funfunfun
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm pretty impressed that she craves a "bowl" before even having breakfast, that is hardcore
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wait why's she still asking which seat to take once she's already in the damn back seat cruisin down the green-screen way?
― le grenouille mange le pomplamousse (Trayce), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
You'll all be surprised when this places #1 on the 2011 EOY poll.
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
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well she got stuck with back middle which sucks, shoulda called shotgun
― what do it take to be a legend like noz is? (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
46. how her singing is so monotonous and staccato that it sounds like someone typing morse code with a telegraph machine
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
47. the fucking seizure-inducing mirror image of herself during WE SO SO SO EXCITED. it's like her molecules are reaching escape velocity and peeling off into a mirror version of herself which will go on to star in "Saturday"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
do you think she eats cereal on Saturday, too?
― sarahel, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
in the entire breakfast section she doesn't blink once, just the fixed stare and a monotone about cereal. capturing the true essence of all our mornings.
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
tbh - i drink coffee in the morning and blink a lot.
― sarahel, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
cant wait for her ep of super sweet sixteen
― plax (ico), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
the girl in the jeans video is better, i think.
― sarahel, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
48. How her smile gets even smilier when she sings "I see my friends!"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
THERE IS ONLY ONE FREE SEAT
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
GOD
yeah the jeans video one is so hamming it up and like into it, this girl just seems like she was going w/ it. idk arent spoiled rich thirteen yr olds all supposed to be doing coke and having sex parties in their parents summer house or something? when i was that age nobody would have been lame enough to think this fake hanna montana shit was a vaguely acceptable thing to do but maybe thats just bc my friends were all awesome and cool
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
she just reminds me of the kind of girl that would audition for a community theater play and sing "A Little Fall of Rain" from Les Miz, but would get confused and kinda break down when the accompanist plays the song in a different key from the one she practiced in.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
^
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
the jeans video girl would totally get a part in any community theater production of Annie.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
there was an mtv show that basically did exactly this btw
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg the jeans video
HA HA HA JACK MY SWAG
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
okay wait no it didnt but it had a similar element of vanity and pointlessness
p impressed at this girls mastering of the dance move that me and my sister once spent like an hour trying to figure out and couldnt
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol "enhanced cd"
unless these guys aren't just rich-parent-hustlers but creepy pedos (that one "5 days with CJ Fam" video has the camera following CJ and her little friend into an abandoned shed in the woods for some reason), they should totally exploit this net buzz for their own MTV series.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
also holy shit no one's posted the CJ Fam video yet
It's about a small child who could maybe get a callback for Annie on Broadway wrestling with the price of fame
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
"I'm not a diva, I'm sooo real and sooo down to earth."
crepeing all the way to the bank
― deej, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
I was at a recording studio that gets a lot of big-paycheck clients, big place with multiple studios, and while we were there in like the C studio over in D was the daughter of a guy who owns this massive company whose products I have enjoyed since I was a child. They had 1) hired some of the people who write hits for Britney etc and 2) hired a vocal coach and 3) hired musicians to a) write a record for their daughter b) teach her to sing it and c) track it, at full studio rates. they were there for a week working all day on something that will never see the light of day, just indulging their idea that enough money & successful people could make their daughter a pop diva.
this made me lol really hard
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
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― lex pretend, Monday, March 14, 2011 7:54 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lmao otm
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol cj fams producers flamboyant displays of weve got a hit on our hands
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
hey were there for a week working all day on something that will never see the light of day, just indulging their idea that enough money & successful people could make their daughter a pop diva.
Have you heard the tapes?!
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
Let me explain to him in simple arithmetic. One, two three! Because you don't fuckin' get it, Burt! You give us the tapes. We get the record contract. We come back and give you your fuckin' money. Have you heard the tapes? Have you even heard them? We're guaranteed a record deal. Our stuff is that good!
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
For serious it is interesting how the Ark model is different from the old vanity stuff. You have autotune, which makes it really easy to make a talentless singer sound catchy and tuneful, and you have youtube, which makes the distribution costs nothing. So you can record high production value vanity shit for people, charge them a lot of money, and then put it out there easily, and if it takes off, more money for you, if not, no big deal.
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is fucking bonechilling
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Holy shit that CJ Fam one is creepy as fuck! Whats with the two producer dudes and their leery smiles and nods? *&^^$
Also she totally looks like the kind of indulged fat brat who does precisely this kind of thing (or beauty contests) at the behest of pushy parents. UGH.
― le grenouille mange le pomplamousse (Trayce), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
cj fam is deeply pomo
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh man, the CJ Fame "behind the scenes with ark entertainment" vid I referred to has been made private.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Fam, I mean. I guess only exclusive members of the Ark Ent family get to know about the shed, now.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
CJ's comments are still loaded with obvious plants going "fantastic voice!".
― le grenouille mange le pomplamousse (Trayce), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
The faux-naivety ITT is like you guys have never seen "Tardy For The Party" or anything.
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 01:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
i have never seen 'tardy for the party' or anything
― history mayne, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 01:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
i saw something
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 01:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
but i couldnt make out what it was
some people here have probably not even heard Alana Lee's "Butterflies", and that makes me sad b/c it is a much better song than "Friday":
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 01:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
That video has been posted 3 or 4 times already.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 01:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
tru, but some people here have probably not even heard it.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 01:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
Or anything.
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 01:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
Fried egg, fried egg
― le grenouille mange le pomplamousse (Trayce), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 01:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ive been going around singing "fried egg" since last night much to N's bemusement.
recently i have started interpreting the "which seat can i take?" as a direct question to the audience, asked the same way dora the explorer and the guy from blues clues ask their viewers where the tree/clue/whatever is
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 01:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
this entire thing is super creepy to me
― deej, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 01:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
did lol @ those lex posts ice craem reposted tho
"Fried egg, fried egg" reminds me of this:
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 01:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Lex's analysis has made me realise that this song corresponds exactly to the picture of Kafka Judith Butler put forward the other week:
precisely because of this apparently objective and rigorous mode of writing, a certain horror opens up in the midst of the quotidian, perhaps also an unspeakable grief
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 01:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
no it's also terrible just less memorably so
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 01:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
In 15 minutes, everyone will be famous.
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
says the man who provided the terribly memorable soundtrack to the terribly memorable moment in Armageddon where Ben Affleck makes animal crackers stampede across Liv Tyler's half-naked body.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
(/cheap shot)
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
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I missed it while watching Baseball Tonight :(
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
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this sequence of lex posts is slaying me
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
haa
28. One of the dudes is named John Benett Ramsey― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux))LOL I noticed that too.― one time, something happy craz (Trayce)
― one time, something happy craz (Trayce)
No he isn't.
:D :D
― dom p's rusty Nuts (sic), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
"haa" @ cad btw
"this entire thing is super creepy to me"
ooh so creepy. more goofy than anything.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
Man I am sad it's not actually John Bennett Ramsey
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 03:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
― scott seward, Monday, March 14, 2011 9:58 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
idk stage parents embarrassing their teenaged children on a massive public stage is p gross
― deej, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 03:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
do you think their kids are embarrassed though!? if anything there will be a hundred more kids knocking down this company's door. 2 million youtube views! all the snarky comments in the world won't deter them. look at snookie!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 03:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah but its 2m people laughing at her :/
― le grenouille mange le pomplamoose (Trayce), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 03:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
you guys, this video is extreme lol
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 03:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
well duh!
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 03:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Yeah but its 2m people laughing at her :/"
even more than that laughing at snookie! i don't really think the negative matter to people anymore.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 03:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
matters
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 03:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
my friend P3tey on FB just now: "I have now seen the video. HORRIFIC.Her friends all look like they are in a serious amount of pain."
― le grenouille mange le pomplamoose (Trayce), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 04:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
the terrible overdubs at the end
I seriously cannot deal, they are too lol
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 04:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
I like what scott's saying on this thread
I have to admit as a long time fan of things like Y. Bhekhirst and Ken DeFeudis, it's been interesting what the internet has done to the idea of 'outsider music' -- technically incompetent but completely earnest and slightly strange songs suddenly finding a huge mainstream audience. the second repetition in the chorus of 'Friday' totally hits my nervous system, something totally genuine about it (even though it's the same performance cut and pasted for every chorus)
and I know these gifs are meant as mocking but face it the longer you look at them -- behold ACTUAL 13 YEAR OLD GIRLS looking completely awkward on camera -- if this is the way things are going, this is 9000x better than kesha or katy perry or any of that straight up bullshit that I've seen grown people on this board make an argument for that is absolutely, inarguably confusing and poisoning the landscape for other actual 13 year old girls
things like "Hot In The Airport" will never make 2.5 million hits in two days, I know this is something different, but it's the same lineage and it's a hell of a lot more interesting to me than most of the stuff usually taking up space on new answers
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean it is interesting -- the lineage is less true complete-outsiders like Ken DeFeudis and more the dial-a-song poem people as mentioned upthread. I know this is a factory, not true expressive wellspring, and I think the people saying 'creepy' are more responding to the factory aspect of it. But I like that too, the factory aspect is more laid bare here than ever before, if you find this creepy it completely exposes all the other factory pop you've ever let yourself like, and I like that too
you don't get to 2.5 million hits by accident, this isn't just 'oh wow this is the worst', this is recognition
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I agree with all that.
― A Very Small Bag of Phrases (Eazy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
this song immediately reminded me of dahv, whose time i guess has passed now:
― brigitte beardo (donna rouge), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Milton - has anyone autotuned Florence Foster Jenkins?
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think she also makes for an interesting comparison. The problem I have with this in terms of previous outsider music, is that a lot of the charms of the historical stuff is its earnestness, but how "earnest" can you be, or be perceived, with autotune? Like it's too polished to really have that aesthetic.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
why does she only sing the second syllable on weekend most of the time
― rumpie's trusty nuts (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Maybe it's just me but does the yellow BUS STOP sign move just a teeny bit around when she says "stop", like right before the edit?
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
how many times have you watched this, Stevie?
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Honestly? Maybe 15
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
48. The background "Friday, Friday" paired with impassioned hair-stroke at 3:17-3:18
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 06:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
49. when all the other kids are either waving or pumping their fists, there's one person in the front right corner of the crowd who is either making devil horns or pointing at RB as if to say, "this girl! this girl!"
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 06:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
I can dig the earnestness of this kind of stuff. I can dig the honesty. But just being earnest and honest isn't enough. I mean, Bright Eyes is earnest and honest. It still sucks.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 07:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
50. Revelation of CHILD ENDANGERMENT! (when "rapper" owns up to being lapped, in the fast lane, by a school bus)
― Spectrist, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 07:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
i woke up with this song stuck in my head for the second day running and nothing else i try to listen to feels adequate ;_;
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 08:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
man that ark music factory page is so fucked up -- shit looks like a cross b/w a child porn site and an escort service
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 15 March 2011 09:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
I FEEL A LAWSUIT COMIN' ON
― Ned Raggett Reads Autumn Almanac (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 09:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
How dare they destroy a well-respected brand like "King Boy Pato", seriously.
― Ned Raggett Reads Autumn Almanac (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 09:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol yeah i'm reading herta müller's the passport atm and it ALL FITS
btw when i went downstairs this morning the words "gotta have my bowl gotta have cere-owl" sprang unbidden to my lips
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 09:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:28 (4 hours ago)
totes
i thought it was 'just a bad song' for the first min or so
kid has an endearingly unaffected manner, and one imagines a preponderance of 'you be the youtube star' competitions in which ordinary tweens compete (or more hopefully, are randomly selected) for a $20k autotune + greenscreen makeover
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 09:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
compare / contrast with these retards
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 10:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean it is interesting -- the lineage is less true complete-outsiders like Ken DeFeudis and more the dial-a-song poem people as mentioned upthread. I know this is a factory, not true expressive wellspring, and I think the people saying 'creepy' are more responding to the factory aspect of it. But I like that too, the factory aspect is more laid bare here than ever before, if you find this creepy it completely exposes all the other factory pop you've ever let yourself like, and I like that tooyou don't get to 2.5 million hits by accident, this isn't just 'oh wow this is the worst', this is recognition― Milton Parker, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:32 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:32 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
christ
― history mayne, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 10:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
fucking ilm
yeah i'm more in the "2.5 million lols" camp myself.
― le grenouille mange le pomplamoose (Trayce), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 10:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
why does it offend you? xp
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 10:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
"I like that too, the factory aspect is more laid bare here than ever before, if you find this creepy it completely exposes all the other factory pop you've ever let yourself like, and I like that too"
just seems a retarded comment to me
― history mayne, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 10:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
if you can't get a solid lol out of this, sans popist wank, then i don't even
― history mayne, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 10:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
ya but you probably got trolled by 'dogville' too
not like foregrounding of artifice (willingly or otherwise) began in 2k11
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 10:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
you guys wouldn't be laughing if I'd made the awesome music video that I imagined in my head in middle school. I think it involved me lipsyncing the song IN SPACE.
― Morty Maxwell (crüt), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 10:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
90% of the lols are from the video, 10% lyrics
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 10:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
if you can't get a solid wank out of this, sans popist lols, then i don't even
― Morty Maxwell (crüt), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 10:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
:D
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 15 March 2011 10:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
yes... this is why milton's comment caused me great eye-rollage. and even then this isn't foregrounding artifice, it's just a badly made video that is funny.
― history mayne, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 10:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
FRIDAYFRIDAY
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 10:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
IT'S IN YOUR HEAD ADMIT IT
― Morty Maxwell (crüt), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 10:11 (1 minute ago)
surprising lack of lecherous comments in the youtube
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 10:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
ppl keep telling me I dance like the car friend girl :(
― oppet, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 10:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
ouch.
when i woke this morning my first thought was OH GREAT ANOTHER GRIM DAY OF CATASTROPHICALLY SPIRALLING SELF-REFLECTION, and then my next was FRA-EE-DAY, FRA-EE-DAY, and then my next was :).
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 13:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
51. when her friends open their mouths, the demonic voice of Zuul issues forth like a black contagion to infest the ears of non-believers
― dayo, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 13:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
52. token asian makes me feel I too could be a part of this scene
― dayo, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 13:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
53. definitely proves the "we the best" theorem as laid out by dj khaled: verbs are mere window dressing in the english language
WE SO EXCITED
― dayo, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 13:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:13 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:13 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
I watched like 1/2 of it yesterday morning and yet somehow found myself humming it as I walked to get some coffee just now. WTF.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 13:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
also, what the fuck is this new video editing effect where you strobe the image at a 45 degree slant on the left side of the image, and only the left side of the image
― dayo, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 13:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
I thought Tracer was doing some ungodly Rebecca Black/Cranberries mashup for a second
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 13:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
And I love pink top girl. My awkward ass 13 year old braces wearing self would have got down with her.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 13:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
53. rebecca's house gives me fond memories of when the mccallisters packed for france at the last minute
― dayo, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 13:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
54. the lyric "sunday come afterwards" is the giveaway that this is actually the latest pinnacle of po-mo - "sunday comes after words", or after words, sunday, the end of the week, traditionally seen as God's rest day, God...the Word... after... words...
― dayo, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh no
I am going to hell for laughing at that
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg
― ENBB, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
!!!! :D
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
heee
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've just listened to the sped-up version five times in a row...help :(
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
That's because it's brilliant. (Did about the same last night.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm supposed to be working (and I kind of am) but my internal world is all FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY and my head's nodding and I think everyone's looking at me...
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
imagine how you're going to be feeling when it is ACTUALLY FRI-EE-DAY
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
WHOO!
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
the sad irony is that by friday, no one's going to give a shit anymore
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
partying partying YEAH
whoever mentioned Andrew WK upthread, you are OTM
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
These seem to be legit:
http://twitter.com/#!/arkmusicfactoryhttp://twitter.com/#!/REBECCAFANCLUBhttp://twitter.com/#!/CJFam
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
the video is kind of all about how cool cars are to 13-year-olds
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Lil Naynay's claim that "I started rapping before I could talk" makes my head explode
― o0o00h really? (boxedjoy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS??? Who attends events like this?! Where do you get the money to indulge yourself to this extent?
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 15:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean do these people really think that they matter to any degree? For real?
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 15:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Watched this with gf last night, much cracking up over the REJECTION! REJECTION! REJECTION! girl in particular. Thought Lil Naynay was actually the best of the stable.
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 15:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think the reason I dislike this video so much is that Rebecca Black reminds me of the girl that was always really enthusiastic at the synagogue youth group events my dad made me go to.
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 15:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
just thinking about this this morning made me lol
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 15:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
42. Silly Bandz and a white BIEBER FEVER bracelet around her wrist in the living room scene― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, March 14, 2011 2:45 PM (20 minutes ago)correction: the white bracelet says NEVER SAY NEVER― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, March 14, 2011 3:07 PM (Yesterday)
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, March 14, 2011 3:07 PM (Yesterday)
well fuck, her twitter pic revels that it actually says NEVER SHOUT NEVER, which is the name of a musician who is 1000 times more awful than herself.
yes this issue is very important to me.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 15:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah I figured it was a NeverShoutNever bracelet; wd fit her demo and also no one wears bracelets that say NEVER SAY NEVER
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 15:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
her green bracelet says Justin Bieber, no lie:
this is very shocking and fascinating because very few 13-year-old American girls are fans of Justin Bieber.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 15:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
fuck i love that bob dylan version
― SBlendor in the grass (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 16:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
like obviously it is a song that lends itself to the stripped-down one dude+acoustic guitar 'ironic' cover — but the dylan impression takes it to a whole nother level
― SBlendor in the grass (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 16:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Rebecca Black could be starting a garage band with other 13 year olds and playing in her friends' living rooms. Bet she'd have more fun.
o_0 o_0 o_0
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 17:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
it took me a while to even notice the rap part in the midst of all the craziness, but it's kinda...bizarre...like it's designed to SOUND like a rap, but it doesn't really rhyme...or even really make sense, it's like random words delivered in the cadences of a rap....it's like a sub-par Kool Keith verse done in a Radio Disney style...it's kinda hard to understand but i tried to transcribe it as best I could:
R&B - Rebecca Blackso chillin' in the front seatin the back seatI'm drivin', cruisin'fast...lane...switchin' laneswith a car by my side (WOO!)passin' by is a school busin front of memakes tick tock, tick tockwanna screammy time is Fridayit's a weekendwe gonna have func'mon c'mon y'all!
― what do it take to be a legend like noz is? (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 17:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
ITUNES LINK
― prolego, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 17:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Queen of the music industry. ***** by iLike iTunes Michael Jackson who? Beyonce who? Britney Spears who? Lady GaGa who? Rihanna who? Ke$ha who? Katy Perry who? Justin Bieber who?
brilliance in the purest form ***** by Crashnate never in the history of music, except for maybe King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man" has there been such cohesion between musicality and creativity in one song. This song is flawless, may it go down in history as the perfect jam for literally any occasion, be it a funeral or an 11 year old's birthday party. perfection.
This song is a masterpiece. ***** by Sandfishies Duchamp did it with his "Fountain." Swift did it with Gulliver's travels. Rebecca Black and her team of song-writers are one in a long line of satirical genii taht have exposed to us the sheer obviousness of everyday farce.
So bad it's amazing doesn't even begin to cover it.
Genres: Pop, Music, Children's MusicReleased: Mar 14, 2011
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 17:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm drivin', cruisin'fast...lane...switchin' laneswith a car by my side (WOO!)
Like, I was p sure this is what he said but my hearing's kinda shot and I was convinced it couldn't actually be that awful. "Fast lane, switchin' lanes"?
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 17:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
i believe it's a sex thing. nothing wrong with that.
― history mayne, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 17:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
DYING at this being sent to US Top 40 Radio
http://addboard.mediabase.com/AddDetails.asp?sngcde=BLACF21
None of the stations have added it so far though... :/
― prolego, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 17:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ew. Just.... ew.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 17:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Like these guys are grossing me out more and more.
This is like "Digital Love" for 2nd graders.
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 17:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
― SBlendor in the grass (bernard snowy), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:32 PM Bookmark
Kind of think it sounds more like Pearls Before Swine or Bill Fay.
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 17:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
where American Idol (and Pop Idol, X Factor, et fucking cetera) made an industry performing what i once considered a very valuable service - namely, proving again and again to young Americans that being famous involves actual practice and skill rather than sheer cheek - this whole ARK thing is like the backlash, the anti- American Idol. we will create this little bubble of yes-men for you.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
actual music writers feel free to expand that into an article for the Observer
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
idk i don't think that's the case really, unless they planned this to happen alla long, which...idk, how could they? seems like all of this itunes stuff is just an attempt to strike while the iron is hot briefly exists. what the ark actually do is just a manifestation of a thing that's long existed, this whole "pretend you're a pop star for a day!" competition prize thing.
i think reality tv & the internet have long proved to young people everywhere that being famous requires no practice or skill whatsoever
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
How far did Jedward get on X-Factor?
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
how much money can you make from a video with 4 million views btw?
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
$23.59
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah lex that why i say i "once considered" because pretty quickly after the first couple of seasons of these shows the (often totally incompetent) runners-up became even bigger stars
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
i should correct this - becoming famous doesn't necessarily require practice or skill, but once you're known for a certain thing you do or a certain persona or a certain look, maintaining that to stay famous probably requires as much practice and skill as anything else
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
i just feel like ARK is totally catering to all the people who are like man, american idol would be perfect if we could just get rid of all the snooty judges
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
ARK is catering to people with more money than they know what to do with
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
like these ARK videos are the stuff of Adorno's nightmares
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
nah that would be the russian hebeprhenic winning Stravinsky vs Schönberg
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
like who though? you've got your one-off freakshows like jedward but i think most of the people getting famous through XF and AI are still the ones deemed competent. i'm not sure the ark has anything to do with that - it may be a factory but it's so amateur - their MO isn't "we'll make you a superstar" it's "we'll make you feel like a pop star for a day"
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
have you read his Cadillacs essay, nakh?
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:09 PM (7 minutes ago)
the thought did occur to me that this is all a scam to make millions of AdSense dollars from views
― corey, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
Surprised they don't have ads on the Youtube...
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:18 (1 minute ago)
no, do you know the title?
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Why Rebecca Black's Much-Mocked Viral Hit 'Friday' Is Actually GoodThe teen unknown's surprise internet hit is an unintentional parody of modern pop
By Matthew PerpetuaMARCH 15, 2011 1:15 PM ET
Rebecca Black's "Friday," a song and music video produced by the Los Angeles company Ark Music Factory, has gone viral over the past few days, bubbling up from Tumblr and Twitter to become one of 2011's fastest-growing memes. The clip has already been parodied, covered and remixed many times over, and will likely inspire further variations as it spreads throughout internet communities and pop culture. The fascination with the video mainly comes down to its subpar production values, grating hooks and extraordinarily stupid lyrics. (This is a song that makes a point of explaining the sequence of days in the week.)
But there's something else going on here, something that makes "Friday" uniquely compelling. After all, there's no shortage of insipid failed pop music out there, and Ark Music Factory is responsible for many other music videos by young unknowns that are just as cringe-inducing, if not much worse. When you see this video, you immediately notice everything that it does "wrong," but it actually gets a lot of things about pop music right, if just by accident.
For one thing, Black's voice is totally bizarre. It's not just the processing on her vocals – she has a peculiar tonality that inadvertently highlights the absurdity of boilerplate pop lyrics that may not seem as ridiculous if, say, Katy Perry was singing instead. When she sings the "Friday, Friday" hook or the "fun fun fun fun" refrain, she sounds unlike anything else in pop music. Perhaps the closest comparison is Laraine Newman in Saturday Night Live's Coneheads sketches – pinched and stilted, like an alien attempting to pass an average American girl. Obviously, this isn't the most pleasant sound in the world, but Black comes out sounding like a distinct singer with an alluring sort of anti-charisma.
With a voice as strange as this, Black probably doesn't belong in the world's most generic modern pop song, but here she is. "Friday" is exactly what you expect from teen-oriented pop in 2011, from the sing-song melodies on down to a guest spot from an anonymous rapper who's only tangentially related to the rest of the song. If the video was intended to be a parody of teen pop convention, it would be on par with some of the best SNL Digital Shorts by Lonely Island.
And thus Black and Ark Music Factory have made a video that forces its audience to reckon with a particular formula for pop music. It's not as if any of this was ever actually cool, but suddenly it seems as if any legit pop singer goes anywhere near the vibe of "Friday," it will just seem like a joke.
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
"an alluring sort of anti-charisma", fuck me
― SBlendor in the grass (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
rich kid karaoke is the new punk rock
― SBlendor in the grass (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
Lo, his writing style is more amateur than Rebecca Black's performance.
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
xxp - i don't remember off the top of my head, but there's also an essay critiquing it called something very close to "Adorno Meets the Cadillacs" that is also worth reading. Both were on the syllabus for Popular Music Criticism class I took in college 15 years ago.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Tracer wasn't in this class, I think I was the only MCM person in it - everyone else was Ethnomusicology grad students iirc
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah will read that, thanks
users.ipfw.edu/tankel/PDF/Gedron.pdf
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
I said the same shit as Perpetua way, way upthread in like one tenth of the words: Yeah, kinda struggling to find a meaningful, useful difference between these and, e.g., Ke$ha, who is equally as retarded and equally manufactured but doesn't have the excuse of age or ambitious stage parents. It's razor-thin line between "Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy" and "Hannah Montana is wearing my jeans."
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
il perpetua anorexico
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Friday" is exactly what you expect from teen-oriented pop in 2011, from the sing-song melodies on down to a guest spot from an anonymous rapper who's only tangentially related to the rest of the song. If the video was intended to be a parody of teen pop convention, it would be on par with some of the best SNL Digital Shorts by Lonely Island.And thus Black and Ark Music Factory have made a video that forces its audience to reckon with a particular formula for pop music. It's not as if any of this was ever actually cool, but suddenly it seems as if any legit pop singer goes anywhere near the vibe of "Friday," it will just seem like a joke.
― SBlendor in the grass (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
iow i think everyone is just making up excuses for enjoying a silly catchy novelty song
― SBlendor in the grass (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
her voice isn't that distinct.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
someone should arrange this for big band and do a sinatra impression over it
― SBlendor in the grass (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
waiting for power metal cover, personally.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm late to the party on this whole thing, but is Ark Music Factory like the 2011 version of those 'Song Poem' records? You know, "we'll set your lyrics to music, just send us money?"
― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
a peculiar tonality
I don't hate on this dude like everybody tends to but I really, really, really, really wish music writers would think twice, or three times, even, before using a word like "tonality" - it's fine to not actually have studied musical terminology (I guess, and even if it isn't fine, the horse has left the barn) but using it like you knew what it meant is a bummer
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp essentially
― SBlendor in the grass (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm late to the party on this whole thing, but is Ark Music Factory like the 2011 version of those 'Song Poem' records? You know, "we'll set your lyrics to music, just send us money?"― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:40 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:40 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
my old housemates had a business doing this for a while
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
man aero how many horses are even left in yr barn???
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
gbx, great screen name. I'll research new one stat...
― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
her voice is just funny because it's monotone and slightly worried, like she is nervous about screwing up and this nervousness/the song's general ridiculousness is getting in the way of her connecting to it at all; she is singing the same way you dance when you're hauled on stage during dinner at Uncle Billy's Restaurant in scenic Hilo, Hawaii to learn and dance the Hukilau while everyone laughs and takes pictures of you, which is basically exactly what is happening, except it's happening with an incongruous budget and on youtube
ke$ha is awesome and not remotely like this at all but we don't need to go into that
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
I know I flog the hell outta that phrase
you might say I'm flogging a
well you get the general idea
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
I feel kinda bad for her tbh, imagine if that fake pop song you recorded in your bedroom when you were 12 was all of a sudden being parodied by 5 million ppl and perpetua was calling you non-charismatic
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
didn't someone do a record/project releasing these Song Poems years after the fact?
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
perpetua was calling you non-charismatic
pretty sure even a 13-year-old can get the irony here
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
hueg lol
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:44 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark
haha, no worries, entirely possible i poached it?? the whole song is potential display names imo
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp to sarahel
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
i just really want to know if the other kids in that video were her real friends or not.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think i was emotionally scarred by "You Can't Do That On Television" where one of the girls on the show is told that all the other kids were paid by her parents to be her friends, and she doesn't have any real friends. Most of this was due to people in grade school telling me I kinda looked like that girl.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
"the world's most generic modern pop song"
I HAVE A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH THIS
actual modern pop songs really don't use this narrating-everything-as-you-go lyrical style? as anyone who actually listens to pop music would know? jesus, perpetua.
― c sharp major, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:44 (1 minute ago)
that shit is the worst, like beyond the guetta principle in terms of 2k10s aesthetic vileness
awkward tween singing silly naive song about the end of the school week having meme fame accidentally foisted upon her vs relentlessly ugly frat hedonist retard anthems
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
you're not supposed to say that!!!
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
you didn't need to go into that
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
xpost to self:
like if it was a series of generic statements about being in a club: fine, yeah, modern pop.
but this 'now i'm doing this, now i'm doing that, making a statement of fact' super banal stuff is actually more reminiscent of the first robin sparkles song on HIMYM than actual charting pop music.
― c sharp major, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
no, someone just got yelled at about an hour ago for calling someone retarded.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
not reading 'that thread' (assuming....)
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp again i'm not gonna do this because what's the point, but without getting into actual value judgments i'd just say that like 65% of the joke with "friday" comes from how stilted and robotic she sounds, like she's just barely clinging to this weird edifice that's been built for her, whereas ke$ha does not sound like that, because she's throwing herself into her relentlessly ugly frat hedonist retard anthems and giggling and preening and doing weird voices and affecting deliberately obnoxious vowel sounds and this is like literally the opposite of what is going on with "friday". that's all.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
'now i'm doing this, now i'm doing that, making a statement of fact'
read this in rebecca black's voice — actual lols
― SBlendor in the grass (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
ke$ha is also an adult whose junk boys want to touch.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm guessing some of the <3 apologists itt have for this track is because, as tweens or former tweens, they empathize with the simple joy of the school week finishing
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
don't forget according to iatee's recent poll, many ilx users are actually 13
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
xxpokay I'm at the club, yeah goin' to the clubgotta get boys, have 'em touch me on my junkordering drinks, gosh look at all these drinkshave to pick a drink, and then I'll get drunk
― SBlendor in the grass (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
(also everything c sharp major is saying about the lyrics to this not actually being anything like any actual pop at all is otm, that is why it is so funny)
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
except the "fun fun fun" part - pretty sure that's been in a pop song before
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
but this 'now i'm doing this, now i'm doing that, making a statement of fact' super banal stuff
'Cause you're hot then you're coldYou're yes then you're noYou're in then you're outYou're up then you're downYou're wrong when it's rightIt's black and it's whiteWe fight, we break upWe kiss, we make up
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, but that is about "~feelings~" not eating a bowl of cereal
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
that is a structured description of contrasting abstract states that happen over the course of a relationship
vs an unstructured list of physical things happening in the order that they are happening
like again that is the opposite of "friday"
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
had a 30 second search but couldn't find anything for
thread for random crit theory bloggers discussing pop music
would appresh if any relevant material is posted there
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
itt a lot of special pleading
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
This list is a lot different from that list because of because
she's totally ditching in that video, right?
― slugbuggy, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
i guess there are some similarities between this song and Beastie Boys' "Fight for Your Right to Party"
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think ppl calling this a 'typical' pop lyrics are probably using "Party in the USA" as a reference point, and it's true, this is kind of like an artless version of
Jumped in the cab, here I am for the first timeLook to my right, and I see the Hollywood sign[...]I'm noddin' my head like yeahMovin' my hips like yeah
― SBlendor in the grass (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
xpost also "a hard rain's a-gonna fall"
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
ibut this 'now i'm doing this, now i'm doing that, making a statement of fact' super banal stuff
trapped in the closet, minus sex, conflict and midgets.
― m the g, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
r kelly does the "now I'm doing this" thing all day
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean I'm not trying to equate Rebecca Black and Ke$ha or whomever as performers and difficult listening hour is correct in re: their dedication to their performances, but when it comes to the, eh, I don't know, songwriting values? we're into some narcissism of small differences territory here, big time.
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
in 5 yrs we will look back on this girl as the 'star wars kid' of the 2010s
― SBlendor in the grass (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
narcissism of small differences = equating a 13 year old girl with an adult woman? Pretty sure Chris Hansen would have something to say about that.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
That's not what I'm doing. At all. I'm talking about the songs qua songs, not the performers behind them.
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
I get up when I want, except on Wednesday's, when I get rudely awakened by the dustman. I have a cup of tea, out my trousers on, and think about leaving the house. Fun fun fun fun.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
when it comes to the, eh, I don't know, songwriting values? we're into some narcissism of small differences territory here, big time.
get this even if i don't agree, doubt either of us would benefit from arguing it.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
in this case, how easy is it to separate the song from the performer though?
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
and the subject matter of the songs are different -- ke$ha's are adult in nature.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp what are you, william butler yeats?
― SBlendor in the grass (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
like dumb songs about getting wasted and getting laid have a qualitative difference than a dumb song about a pre-teen eating cereal and waiting for the bus.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
get up, get out of beddrag a comb across my headmade my way downstairs and drank a cuplooking up, i noticed i was lategrabbed my coat, grabbed my hatgotta get down to the bus stopgotta catch the bus'cuz its FRI-EEE-DAY, FRI-EEE-DAY
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
also has anyone considered the possibility that if this girl 'sounds like' ke$ha it's because maybe she LIKES ke$ha and was trying to emulate her? "gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal" is kinda like a crude 13-year-old approximation of "wake up in the morning feelin' like p.diddy", right?
― SBlendor in the grass (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
But it's not like this is the Numa Numa guy in his bedroom, RB has to some degree signed up to "being a pop star" with whatever promotion Ark can offer. It's a bit sad that she finds out how the world/Internet works in such a public way but she or her parents should have known better.
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
but this 'now i'm doing this, now i'm doing that, making a statement of fact' super banal stuff is actually more reminiscent of the first robin sparkles song on HIMYM than actual charting pop music.― c sharp major, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:52 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark
― c sharp major, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:52 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark
haha yes, 'let's go to the mall' has inexplicably been in my head as a result of r.b., though idk, they're not quite the same
― history mayne, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
i guess because partying *is* exciting but going to the ma-a-all isn't.
― history mayne, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm gonna do this version of the song as some serial killer type might do it and I'll be like super-viral, it'll be so funny
then I will live another 40 years or so with the shame of my act, and then die
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
an incognito rebecca black will place roses on your grave once a year
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
man it's gonna be even more awesome to be dead than I thought
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
she'll only visit your grave when the night winds wail, though.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
all the lonely people where do they all come fromfun fun fun fun
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
gotta have my bowl gotta visit my serial
killer
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
wait what the hell that doesnt even make sense
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
thread is moving so quickly that you could declare 'friday' to be the vacuous pop analog of 'life: a user's manual' and nobody would notice. hitler. poo.
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
friday's probably the best english translation of a perec work yeah
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
clearly her agonizing over whether to get in the front or back seat is symbolic of the anxiety teen girls feel regarding their impending womenhood. does she ride in the chaste front seat, or become a creature of sexual agency by choosing the back seat?
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
there are levels of complexity here you sneering ghouls have not even begun to scratch
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
seeing as the rapper is actually the adult version of her, one could say that this dilemma is resolved by learning to be comfortable in both seats
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
first you insinuate she is a timeshifting biracial hermaphrodite, and then recommend a path of polymorphous, perverse sexuality? you sir are a cad.
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
can someone plz explain this i dont get it ;_;
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
LOL politics blogger John Cole:
Apparently this is the newest big thing, and it is sweeping the intertrons because it is apparently really, really bad. Critics are panning it, and Sullivan included one critic who stated that “Black’s video for ‘Friday’ is one of those rare occurrences where even the most seasoned critics of Internet culture don’t know where to begin. From the singing straight out of Auto-Tuned hell to lyrics such as ‘Tomorrow is Saturday / And Sunday comes afterwards / I don’t want this weekend to end’ and a hilariously bad rap about passing school buses, ‘Friday’ is something that simply must be seen and heard to be fully appreciated.”Here’s my problem, and why I think I am getting old. First, I’d never heard of it. Second, I watched it and listened, and to me, it seemed not much worse than most of the crap you hear every day anyway. Flip through the television and watch any of the shows on Disney or those networks geared towards teens, and you hear this kind of crap every single day. Don’t get me wrong, it isn’t my style of music and I think it is bad in that sense and I will live a very happy life if I never have to listen to it again, but I have a hard time describing it as qualitatively worse than any crap that has spewed from Miley Cyrus or the likes. If I were in a store or restaurant and that was playing in the background I wouldn’t stop and say “That’s really bad,” because it sounds just like all the other crap out there passing itself off as music.And I thought the young girl singing it had a sweet smile.
Here’s my problem, and why I think I am getting old. First, I’d never heard of it. Second, I watched it and listened, and to me, it seemed not much worse than most of the crap you hear every day anyway. Flip through the television and watch any of the shows on Disney or those networks geared towards teens, and you hear this kind of crap every single day. Don’t get me wrong, it isn’t my style of music and I think it is bad in that sense and I will live a very happy life if I never have to listen to it again, but I have a hard time describing it as qualitatively worse than any crap that has spewed from Miley Cyrus or the likes. If I were in a store or restaurant and that was playing in the background I wouldn’t stop and say “That’s really bad,” because it sounds just like all the other crap out there passing itself off as music.
And I thought the young girl singing it had a sweet smile.
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp the sound effect in the background is basically equivalent to when you cross the final gate-thing in a super mario world level
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
hahahah nice, that's pretty subtly down in the mix! XD
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
You can depend on The Ark for subtlety.
― Spectrist, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
55. The kid in the green shirt at 1:57 shouting "yeah," he's like a one man Smashmouth Junior.
― Threadkiller General (Viceroy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
Don’t get me wrong, it isn’t my style of music and I think it is bad in that sense and I will live a very happy life if I never have to listen to it again, but I have a hard time describing it as qualitatively worse than any crap that has spewed from Miley Cyrus or the likes. If I were in a store or restaurant and that was playing in the background I wouldn’t stop and say “That’s really bad,” because it sounds just like all the other crap out there passing itself off as music.
Though I would never resort to this kind of crochety old guy language, he's basically otm.
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 21:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
if production cost for videos that **look** professional hadnt come way way down in the past couple years 'professional' critics wouldnt have a child's vanity video to get all haughtily critical about. i kind of get the feeling its taken seriously at all bcuz it has a veneer of similarity to 'the real thing'
― deej, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 21:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^^
I think John Cole's inability to distinguish b/w Rebecca and Miley et al stems from the fact that he's probably unaware that there are rules at work in even the most simplistic, sub-literate corporate pop.
People find "Friday" hilarious not because it's appreciably more stupid in general than other pop songs, but because somehow it's also stupid about pop notwithstanding the fact that clearly a lot of people involved either have experience in the area or money to hire other people who do.
The key mistake "Friday" makes being that it's form is pop-as-storytelling and yet it has no story to tell (or rather, one so banal it's not worth telling) and no sense of how to tell a story. If it was designed for dancing to the lyrics wouldn't feel as prominent as they are. And that general mistake flows through to all the specific mistakes: the insane and meaningless level of detail with which Rebecca describes events that no-one seriosusly could imagine the listener caring about similarly sets her up to be lambasted for the poor writing in general.
We could of course go after Britney's "Three" (or "Hold It Against Me" for that matter) for similar reasons but any listener who has a basic working understanding of pop knows that the lyrics there are simply placeholders for some functional sex-and-dancing-frission effect.
But obv "Friday" isn't worth getting haughty about - if anything it's like an instructional video for budding pop songwriters. If I was running an Ark equivalent my project for students would be to take the song and make it good while changing as little as possible.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
ugh wrong "it's" totally undermines everything I just said.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
when she says "gotta have cereal" her lips say something totally different. maybe they changed the lyric in post?
― hey jelixy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
like maybe she said the brand name of a cereal in the song and they made her change it?
― hey jelixy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
ok, this is going to destroy me, who reads lips?
― hey jelixy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
I can - she was originally saying "smoke weed every day"
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
The song that it reminds me of a bit is Ashlee Simpson's "L.O.V.E." (crossed with the Degrassi Junior High theme tune), which is barely more intelligent or thoughtful in the lyrical department - but this really shows up the difference, in that Ashlee doesn't perform "L.O.V.E." in a storytelling style, so when she simply starts spelling out the letters in the title it doesn't feel (as it does with Rebecca when she starts repeating "fun fun fun") that she's simply run out of things to say, it's more like she's just messing around and, if particular factual nuggets emerge from the mix ("my boyfriend should be calling me now anytime" etc.) these are impressionistic condiments rather than solid plot points.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah most of the people finding it hilarious are people who actually love pop. and who love pop going to extremes, like this is so hilarious a new low that it just elicits pure delight. j shep and i were talking about this on twitter, you gotta talk about the rules of camp w/r/t this song's "popularity" - obv m-perp failed to even come close to this - and the thing is even the people still stuck on "hating" it, who keep talking about how it's THE WORST - they're playing by the exact same rules of camp as all the kids on ONTD and last.fm calling her the wig-snatching new queen of pop.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
if anything it's like an instructional video for budding pop songwriters
yeah the lyrics really feel like placeholder lyrics - like when a songwriter has a structure and melody mapped out and is just singing la-la-la stream-of-consciousness words to sketch it out.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
are we sure it's not an actual instruction manual for teens put into a song?
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
A modern Schoolhouse Rock, then.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
really looking forward to lots more thinkpieces about the vanity-commissioned song that went viral - high hopes for some really awesome thinkpieces
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
the first couple of lines just made me think of like a fascist camp for school children
7am wakin up in the morninggotta be fresh gotta go downstairsgotta have my bowlgotta have cerealgotta give thanks to my lord and protectorgotta serve our nation's great leader
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
Man, so wanna post a picture now of Kim Jong-Il with "IT'S FLIE-DAY, FLIE-DAY" lyrics but it just seems in bad taste.
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah it's a shame cuz in the right context that would seem witty and thought provoking
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
I had the SouthPark pokemon training camp in the back of mind the wholetime, so I am picking up what you're putting down there, Phil
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
gotta have my bowlsmoke weed, listen to sade
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'd say it's actually not very stupid about pop at all if you take into account the low expectations one normally has from a vanity song. I mean when I first saw it without knowing what it was I didn't mentally categorize it as another zonday-type lol video, I just thought "here's another unambitious and mediocre pop song." Once you find out that it's a vanity thing I feel like you can only come to one of two conclusions: (1) that it's become incredibly easy to make a moderately catchy pop song or (2) that Ark Music are awfully good for vanity producers. Or possibly both. Seems like there's maybe an underlying attempt by the Ark Music guys to show that they can make a hit with ANYONE, that the singer doesn't matter at all. Which is sort of interesting, I guess.
The thing is I don't feel like there are clear rules of camp anymore, because camp so dominates the culture. I can't tell if the lyrics of this song are supposed to be funny or not and either way they seem so mind-numbing that it doesn't matter to me.
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
maybe she wrote it! are their song credits anywhere? maybe i missed them somewhere.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
lex, you were born for this thread/song/etc or something. write something about it somewhere.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
And I thought the young girl singing it had a sweet smile.And I thought the young girl singing it had a sweet smile.And I thought the young girl singing it had a sweet smile.And I thought the young girl singing it had a sweet smile.And I thought the young girl singing it had a sweet smile.And I thought the young girl singing it had a sweet smile.And I thought the young girl singing it had a sweet smile.And I thought the young girl singing it had a sweet smile.And I thought the young girl singing it had a sweet smile.And I thought the young girl singing it had a sweet smile.And I thought the young girl singing it had a sweet smile.And I thought the young girl singing it had a sweet smile.And I thought the young girl singing it had a sweet smile.And I thought the young girl singing it had a sweet smile.
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think it's true what scott said about the negative just not mattering to anyone any more. the ridicule doesn't mean a single thing to rebecca black and/or ark. they are officially the hottest thing on the internet as of this moment right here and i feel very confident that every single downvote or negative comment they see as just the inevitable haters hatin. the bigger you are the more haters you get, etc.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
the ridicule doesn't mean a single thing to rebecca black and/or ark.
maybe not to ark, but i wouldn't be so sure of the 13yo girl.
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh even less to her, i would imagine. she might have a couple of doubts at first but her friends - possibly the one on her right - will buck her up. "haters gonna hate!"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
i mean otherwise she'd implode from embarrassment. it's sink or swim.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean when I first saw it without knowing what it was I didn't mentally categorize it as another zonday-type lol video, I just thought "here's another unambitious and mediocre pop song."
O.T.M. My immediate thought was, "Wow, Radio Disney has just given up completely here."
Seems like there's maybe an underlying attempt by the Ark Music guys to show that they can make a hit with ANYONE, that the singer doesn't matter at all. Which is sort of interesting, I guess.
Well, and that's the thing with these songwriting/production teams, they have these beats and structures and maybe some melody or instrumentation sitting around and can plug anything and anyone into it depending on who they're working with. Kinda like the Ryan Tedder/Kelly Clarkson/Beyonce kerfuffle from last year.
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://fuckyeahcjfam.tumblr.com/
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
party like a rich kid guys
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
listening to teena marie 'i need your lovin' when that gif popped up on my screen, lolz for some reason
― deej, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
I realize we're already across the rubicon here, but that CJ Fam tumblr seems to be in poor taste.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
"I realize we're already across the rubicon here, but that CJ Fam tumblr seems to be in poor taste."
THE DEFINING WORDS OF THE POST-EMPIRE
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
The song didn't go viral because it's an unambitious piece of daytime radio filler, it went viral because it united everyone from Britney fans to 4Chan in laughing at how terrible it is. It has a surface feel of slick studio professionalism but the beating heart is one of hapless amateurism - something clearly distinct, for the majority i'd wager, from the junk Disney comes up with on its off days. That said, hapless amateurism isn't limited to vanity projects - if something like Vanilla's No Way, No Way, were around today, it would have the same kind of reaction.
I'd be genuinely surprised if Ark Music had any idea that this song, or any of their others, would get more than 60,000 or 70,000 Youtube views. The primary audience is surely the friends and family of the kids concerned. The objective isn't to turn average kids into stars with their songwriting / studio wizardry, it's to make them feel like stars, while pocketing a healthy cheque from their parents.
One of the most interesting things, for me, has been the general lack of malice in the meme-generating responses. She's quite an easy target - someone fundamentally talentless getting to live her dreams on a public stage thanks to the largess of her wealthy parents - but the ribbing has tended to be pretty good natured, by tumblr-bait standards. Again, i think it comes down to the amateurism - there's a kind of goofy charm that comes with it that an equally bad song by a pro singer might not carry.
― Ha ha ha ha. Jack my swag. (ShariVari), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Quincy Jones' voice emanating from the iPad at the launch party is an underrated moment in all this, I think.
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah i get it if the song sounds "real" to people who aren't all that familiar with or interested in teenpop, or who hate it, but otherwise your immediate response is "either something weird is Up with this or it is a really, really unprecedented low". my reaction was basically tim's--the song is so incompetent in so many weird ways; i'd never seen anything like it.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
hearing it was like hearing half the music i listen to through the ears of half the people i know.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP)
I know this is the 2nd time I have otm'd a weed post in this thread, but Jamie_ATP otm
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
i played this for the lovely Emma b and she said "I can see why people like watching it, there's something genuine about her"
kinda hard to argue with
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
there's something genuine about her
The one... TR00 ARK
― Spectrist, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 00:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
i wonder though if this is in fact the death of autotune. if jay-z was not the light, he was only bearing witness to the light.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 00:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
eh i knew something was wrong right away, p sure most people did, hence the memeification - tim is all over this one w/the specifics
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 00:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
this comment has shown up on her official page, i don't know if it's real but lol anyway.
At 12:59am on March 15, 2011, john black said…Wow!What a wild last few days,huh?I hope you take this new found fame(or infamomy in some cases)and grab hold of it!Don't look back,look forward to your next great thing that will come your way.This such a lucky break that doesn't come along very often for most singers.It's yours right now to mold your future if you choose to embrace this opportunity!Way to go my little star! Dad
― teledyldonix, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 00:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
I want my infamomy!
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 00:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
wait whats this abt?
Suggest Ban Permalinkil perpetua anorexico― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:37 PM (Yesterday)
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:37 PM (Yesterday)
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 00:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
this will have its own panel at the next emp pop conference. people had idol fever at the one in los angeles. idol idol idol. they could do a whole conference on idol. there are so many angles you can take. s whole world of idol! forever and ever. and rebecca/ark is similar. there is lots to talk about here! i don't agree with the couple of people on here who don't think it's worth talking about. it's fun to talk about.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
i was really thinking the craziest thing is that we haven't even experienced an actual friday with this song in our lives
― hey jelixy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
kindof enjoy that temporary suspension
so crazy
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
the buildup is a little excruciating. keep looking at my calendar...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think the annoyance about "talking about it" is due to the self-referential nature of the discussion. eventually we're just talking about the fact that we're talking about it, ad infinitum. the think pieces and analysis that follows is just as predictable and tiresome. it's like this ride no one can get off...
― ryan, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think this is the quickest turnaround from the time a meme goes viral to the time my mother forwards a link of it to me.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
...if something like Vanilla's No Way, No Way, were around today, it would have the same kind of reaction.
i had to google this; we didn't get this one in the u.s. afaik.
lol, lol
lol.
― dell (del), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Rickrolling is dead. Long live Blackroll!
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'll take this over sheen any day
― brigitte beardo (donna rouge), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
I find this song to be hilarious and bad and goddamn I cannot wait for FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY on ILX
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
when does one of these kids commit suicide and we're all technically responsible for the bullying?
― hey jelixy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
based on corey haim I would say 2030.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's almost as if everybody's lookin forward to the weekend
weekend
(xpost)
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
The worst thing is we haven't been given any guidance about how to deal with Tuesday or Wednesday. I mean, if it were Thursday, I'd know what's going on.
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
fuck I haven't even thought about front seat or back seat yetAGH THE PRESSURE
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's a kind of sign of something about me that every time this song goes through my head (which is all the time now) it now goes "n*gg*s in the FRONT seat, n*gg*s in the BACK seat"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Just listened to the Dylan version. A++++++
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
She makes Tiffany seem like Muddy Waters
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
gotta have my bowlgotta have "cereal"
― Hippie J0hn D. (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
maybe she eats her cereal in a bread bowl, that's why they are listed separately
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
nope! she is obv smoking the chronicwhich would explain why she has such a hard time to figure out where to sit in her friends' caranother sign of deviant behavior: faking her parents out by pretending to catch the school bus when she is really planning to ride (recklessly at that) w/ her underage delinquent friends.
― Hippie J0hn D. (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
*which would explain why she has such a hard time figuring out where to sit in her friends' car
― Hippie J0hn D. (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
been having some 'cereal' myself, you see..
Greil Marcus weighs in on Rebecca Black. This is some of his best work since Mystery Train!
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
i see my frieannns
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
kickin in the front seat
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
we we we we so excited
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
disappointed that the artist wasn't someone named Rebecca doing a song called Black Friday
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
the sped up happy hardcore remix makes me lololololol
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
supposedly the video getting posted on the Tosh.0 blog last week was what really helped the thing blow up, so it was disappointed that they didn't show it on tonight's episode of the show.
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
plus Tosh said the show won't be on next week so by the time they do cover it in 2 weeks it'll be ancient
yea, by then she'll have released the Weekend Trilogy
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
by then she will have already chosen a seat
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
yea, that one goofy looking boy's face
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm really becoming obsessed with how the seat thing is this recurring pre-chorus thing and by the 2nd time around they've got little arm movements to go with it, like they're anticipating it. like, it's funny enough as a throwaway verse, but it's a goddamn refrain.
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:13 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark
omg I'm gonna give you such a punch
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
I totally fell for that too
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Who on here knows Andrew WK? I would pay $$ to hear him cover this I GET WET style... maybe Cherie can do the guest rap.
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
I know his mom!
― *emergency alternative display name (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
would pay to hear Andrew wk's mum cover this
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Rickrolling is dead. Long live Blackroll!"
Blackball
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm psyched. I'm going to start blackballing people immediately.
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
is that like teabagging
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
haa kornrulez
― dom p's rusty Nuts (sic), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
Share some of yer 'cereal' with me Pillbox; you know where I live...
― hapshash jar tempo (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
Sure thing, Drugs A. Money!
― *emergency alternative display name (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
i feel like one of the things abt this song is how shes says which seat can i take instead of which seat should i take - i mean she really cant figure out which seat is available even - shes standing right there - im sure this has been mentioned
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
maybe she has alpha female status, and therefore has the option of claiming shotgun & demanding that "flow hands" girl move to the back (though, being a benevolent dictator, she allotted herself backseat status).
― *emergency alternative display name (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
well notice she ends up in the backseat both times the dilemma arises -- i'm pretty sure that means she likes it in the butt
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
dude..
― *emergency alternative display name (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hee heee heee
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
This thread has improved my quality of life. Thank you, ILM. Thank you, Ark Productions. Thank you, Rebecca Black.
― relentlessly ugly frat hedonist retard anthems I have loved (staggerlee), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
LOVE this songwriter analysis of why it's catchy.
― The Construction of the Duck Character (Eazy), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
Friday – 27Weekend – 18Partyin’ – 16Fun – 16Seat – 7
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
fuck, I kept meaning to do that re: the lyrics
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
word cloud
― ryan, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Rebecca Black kind of reminds me of Maya Rudolph's character on the SNL "Wake Up Wakefield" sketches.
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
― ENBB, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
less than three always looks like a scrotum to me btw
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
plax, take your pointy ballsack to ILTMI, please.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
That girl is so boring.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
fyi you don't need a www. in front of girlinpinkdancing.tumblr.com
you can sit down now
― dayo, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
can i just..
― *emergency alternative display name (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ark launch party vid is amazing.
"Give it up, everybody! Another young artist! That has more talent, WOO! Than my little toe ... [nano-moment of grammatico-existential horror - then, nothing else for it, into the breach] and my body got in it!"
― relentlessly ugly frat hedonist retard anthems I have loved (staggerlee), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's a shame it cuts off her left arm; that is where most of the lulz are imo.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
― plax (ico), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:03 AM Bookmark
I always think it looks like a naked person bending over, top view
O}<3
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
it looks like an ice cream cone with two scoops, fuiud
― dayo, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
laughs, *applause*
― Odult Ariented Rock (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Partyin’ – 16Fun – 16
Doesn't she say fun twice as often as partyin?
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
Also the word "we" should have been included even though it's a pronoun, just for lulz
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
partyin partyin yean x2fun x4
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Sign her to Turquoise Jeep stat
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 05:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
dude walks up a gives her a lil smack on the tush @1:53
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 16 March 2011 05:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
would like to brag that it will be Friday here first, by like 11 hours
FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN
― dayo, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 05:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
You better not take my spot in the front seat
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 05:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
think u mite fine NZ will beat u. Also mayb us?
― Fun Fun Fun Fun auf der Autobahn (Trayce), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 05:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wait Trayce aren't you in Oz?
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 05:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
(r.i.p. nice knowin u guyz)
yeah it will be LJ first then the mongs
― fried egg on my mind (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 05:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Lj might be busy nudge nudge :D
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 05:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
you have no idea what I have planned
― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 05:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
surprise us
― fried egg on my mind (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 05:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
let's just say it'll be a particularly unconfined celebration of our weekly solstice
― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 05:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
so unless there's a tongan out there lurking, u all gonna be looooosers
FUN FUN FUN FUN FUNFUN FUN FUN FUN FUNFUN FUN FUN FUN FUN
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 05:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
will there be a vacuum y/n
( jokes)
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 06:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
we need to recruit a Tongan stat
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 06:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's on!
― sarahel, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 06:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
what the hell were yall doing last Friday when this thing hit? Certainly not getting it permanently lodged in your head so that by Sunday you had to ban all mentions of it from your house, by the sounds of it...
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 06:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
This thread is the evil twin of the Ignition (Remix) one.
― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 07:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
Tap-dancing Jesus Christ on a cracker!
Meet the old meme:
Same as the new meme.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 08:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
so has anyone figured out what part of orange county she's from? the o.c. register wouldn't say anything more than that she attends a "northeast orange county middle school." no stalko, just curious.
― minsktrans.by (get bent), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 08:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
ummmmm well i looked at the profile of "john black" who commented on her ark music factory page claiming to be her father. his profile lists his location as anaheim, so i guess that could be it.
― teledyldonix, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 08:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh and i guess that would also make sense in light of the fact that her bio says she has sung the national anthem at the angel stadium
― teledyldonix, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 08:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
nope! she is obv smoking the chronic
i know right! and cereal = ketamine
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 08:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://sickmouthy.com/2011/03/16/who-is-rebecca-black/
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 09:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Very nice, Nick.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 11:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
Thank you.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 13:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
god it really is impossible to wake up the day after hearing this for the first time without having it stuck in your head
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 13:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
How is this any worse than "Party In The USA"?And, has anybody noticed how good Fergilicious sounds these days?
― Odult Ariented Rock (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 13:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Fergalicious" has always been great.
― Joseph Beuys II Men (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 13:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Party In The U.S.A." is completely awful but it doesn't derive any particular entertainment value from being as incredibly awkward as "Friday"
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah "fergalicious" is a terrific song
"my humps" is the real comparison point here
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
the people who go "it's just a mediocre pop song, how's it different from a lot of real chart hits" confound me, like, did you watch the whole thing or what
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
Then he walks back to the room. Right now I'm sweating like hellChecks under the bed (bed)then under the dresser (dresser)He looks at the closet (closet)I pull out my berretta (berretta)He walks up to the closet (closet)He’s close up to the closet (closet)Now he’s at the closet (closet)Now he’s opening the closet (closet, closet, closet)
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
fwiw "Trapped In The Closet" was also a horrible trainwreck
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
I wonder what all this does for Ark's business model? Surely no parent who googles them is going to think "hmm...my daughter would love if that happened to her". At the same time this is clearly a one-off fluke event, so they have no future as a million-view monetisation machine either.
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
I know DJP I am just trying to be funny
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm aware of what the differences are, I'm just not convinced that they're significant.
As a point of comparison, here's a current video from a Radio Disney star. Lots of similarities in the milieu, the "storyline," the lyrics, the structure, etc. Miranda Cosgrove has obviously been raised to be a star (she was in "School of Rock" 8 years ago) and puts something into her performance that Rebecca Black is clearly not (yet?) capable of, but still.
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
ppl reacted to "Trapped In The Closet" much with the same reaction that they are reacting to this; gleeful fascination with watching someone crash and burn before their very eyes while saying some amazingly stupid shit
the big difference is that if ppl take Rebecca Black's banality as representative of white ppl, it shows that white ppl are boring and slightly confused about car seats, whereas with R. Kelly taking that shit as representative of black ppl would make you think they are all insane nymphomaniacs; it would seem ludicrous to think that ppl would actually take R. Kelly's nonsense at face value until you go look at The Corner
xp: oh curse you I'm posting this anyway
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
Rebecca Black's banality as representative of white ppl
next aerosmith album "I Am...Rebecca Black" already slated for June release
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
and yeah I agree with you that R Kelly's schtick is irresistible flypaper to racists but I mean I feel like if we don't have fun with him (because R Kelly is clearly to my mind having a lot of fun in his work) then we're letting the bad guys win
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
it is, IMO, much easier to have fun with him if you aren't black
but I have said this before and no one outside of my family and Bill Cosby actually agrees with me
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
Fun, fun, think about funYou know what it is
― Moka, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
agree... damn this song, listened once, endless repeat loop in head today
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
no I actually can imagine, or imagine that I can imagine - complicated q imo (it's the same race-relations basket roughly as white people find the dope dealer persona super-cool, isn't it?) I was just saying that the argt that this song could actually be popular has support in r kelly's (and plenty of country singles I think) (and king diamond's) tendency to do this documenting-a-live-moment-as-it-develops schtick
bonus side quiz, how pissed are people going to be at us if this thread stops bringing lols and becomes a performing-race thread
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
with other Disney pop songs and especially "Party In The U.S.A." I think the main difference beyond the level of competence is the cynicism involved at every level of the conception, execution and reception of a song like that. with "Friday" instead there's total naiveté and a resulting haphazard strangeness that goes way beyond Miley being an awkward post-Alanis warbler or Ke$ha saying dumb rhymes in AutoTune.
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
DJP who do you feel about the racial implications of Pato's role in "Friday," to steer this thread back on topic
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
ha who=how
ha who?
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
prefer "who" tbh lol xp
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
I got thisyou got this
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
i feel like even as we've become so tolerant or accustomed to different types of singing and different types of music, and tend to focus on things like melody and lyrics, there's a lot of subtle issues of intonation and inflection and meter that we kind of take for granted until we hear something that just flaunts convention in such an alien way. like you could so easily rewrite the part about cereal and catching the bus so that it's pretty normal observational pop song fodder, and sing it with more natural phrasing, but then it would just be boring and not entrancingly wrong.
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, not only do the two videos mirror each other but also that miranda cosgrove video ends with her whacking the alarm clock at the exact same time the rebecca black one starts with her waking up. splice em together and put a cowboy in the middle and you've got mulholland drive.
i.e. one's a hazy hollywood dream version and the other's your crappy reality.
― slugbuggy, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Mark my words Rebecca Black will one day be ackonowledged as a pioneer for troll-pop.
― Moka, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Read that as 'trollop' and thought you were being very rude.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
how: Any adult is going to look incredibly creepy and out of place in this video so I think any racial implications are reinforcing grossness that would be there regardless.
who: Halle Berry
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 14:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
splice em together and put a cowboy in the middle and you've got mulholland drive.
Serious out-loud lols!
― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 15:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
People aren't lolling because it's a banal video about a girl hanging out with her friends, people are lolling because it is a TERRIBLE banal video about a girl hanging out with her friends; comparing them and saying "aside from the polish" misses the point that the liberal application of anti-polish is what people are responding to.
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 15:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Thoughtful Observer" digs deep:
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/6148/1300154451929.jpg
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 15:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Watched the Miranda Cosgrove video (thanks for posting it) and I think the analogy to Rebecca Black is that the Cosgrove clip/song is the slickly produced, fluffers on the set, story-line and sequels in the can Hollywood adult entertainment extravaganza whereas Black's is a quickie gangbang filmed by some guy in a Hoboken Motel 6 that emulates the former but is clunky, poorly framed and doomed to a life of hastily thrown-together "all amateur" DVDs and PornTube hits.
And yes, given the ages of those involved, this analogy does make me feel a little dirty. But it's just an analogy so Chris Hanson can ask someone else to have a seat over there.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 15:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
what is it about 13-year-olds that make people so eager to bust out the pr0n analogies
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 15:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm always eager to bust out porn analogiues though.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 15:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
touche
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 15:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
13-yr-old girls to be exact. they kind of weird me out w/r/t r.black b/c she's not remotely sexualised
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 15:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Moka, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 15:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
Okay, no, this is nothing like "Fergalicious", which wasn't even inherently good itself. The only reason it was in any form a "good song" is because JJ Fad's "Supersonic" and Afro-Rican's "Give It All You Got" are good songs.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 15:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
one thing abt this song is how literal it is - like every song p much has some aspect of metaphor or idiom or imagery - its just how people naturally communicate - w/friday its scrubbed clean into this laundry list of sterile events
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
its the sound of complete terrified amateurism - like getting up on stage and forgetting all your lines - youve lost connection to any sort of naturalness or flow
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
does not compute. please couch in pr0n terms
― dell (del), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Negatory, please do not couch "naturalness or flow" in pr0n terms, think of the children.
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah let's not bring up R. Kelly again
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
porn couch terms
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
So ARK very condescendingly wrote this, right?
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
i feel like she had to have written this
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, that was my question above re: Ark: do their video stars bring in their own lyrics, or was this a pre-written thing?
― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Right but are 13 year olds really THAT vapid? It seems like an adult approximation of 13-year-old vapidity. Like I know it's like "lol kids are so simple, they care about cookies and treehouses and getting A's" and shit, but srsly do you have N O T H I N G else to write abt besides Friday in and of itself? Or is it her putting herself in some wacky frame of mind of how she thinks songs ought to be written?
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
hate to break it to you but most of the population are not thinking deep thoughts
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
all the articles about Ark so far seem to imply that they provide the whole package for their clients -- writing/producing the songs and just putting them in front of the microphone to sing it
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Black
""Friday" is a song written by Clarence Jey and Patrice Wilson, performed by Rebecca Black"
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
i feel the elephant in the literal room is her parents, watching over the production and paying the bill. it HAS to be bland and naive so as not to offend Mom
― herbal bert (herb albert), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
"what's so amazing about really deep thoughts"
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:44 PM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
unbelievable!
which reminds me when i was a boy one of my fav tv shows was double dare - oh man i used to sit there thinking of how i would crush that obstacle course - anyway the girl contestants when asked abt their hobbies would typically include writing pop songs - i remember not really understanding wtf they were talking abt - like im sure i knew what a pop song was, maybe i didnt realize that someone had to write them, or maybe i just couldnt imagine little girls writing them, or what theyd do w/them - not sure that any of them actually did write pop songs or what particularly that meant in context or if it was just a cool thing to say on double dare or w/e - anyway friday is a song by a double dare contestant basically
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah if an actual 13-year-old girl wrote this it might well still be bad but it would be bad in a v. different way.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
a mom ok with them standing in a convertible w no seat belts lol
― deej, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
figurative elephant in literal room
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
xps to herb
― deej, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
Patrice Wilson = Pato i assume?
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
i assumed the ark wrote it because i assumed that footage of pato had been shot months earlier and plugged in
― max, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
btw for those not familiar
fyi family double dare was wack - kids only o.g. double dare 4 lyfe
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Right but are 13 year olds really THAT vapid?
If my niece's FB page is any indication the answer is "Yes, but more so."
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha so this song is top 100 on US/AUS itunes already?
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
that video doesn't actually feature kids eating shit does it? bad look imo
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
double dare should have just strapped those kids to a donkey and set the ostrich after em
― max, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
btw i still cant watch the rebecca black video all the way through, it ruins me
― max, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Like the 13 year old me writing a song would have at least talked about DOING SOMETHING on the weekend, like dying your hair blue or going to Hot Topic or pinning a Fugazi patch on your hoodie or something
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
"13-yr-old girls to be exact. they kind of weird me out w/r/t r.black b/c she's not remotely sexualised"
yeah, lots of projection going on. but maybe everything is so sexualized now that people see it everywhere no matter what. like when people were talking about that other video and saying OMG creepy abandoned house who are these perv music company people! and it IS kind of a weird scene, but on the other hand, little kids explore outside all the time! and go into weird abandoned buildings and stuff. so, really, its kinda cute or something? interesting how people read these things though.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
not a bad tune but I prefer the 'moose
― brownie, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Hey, the days of the week thing was MY idea!"
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
they ARE doing something on the weekend! partying!
― brigitte beardo (donna rouge), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:56 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
well, in her case a NeverShoutNever bracelet instead of a Fugazi patch
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean, 13 year old girls do not party on the weekends, okay? They just don't.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't think a 13 year old would write that.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
you're hanging out with some lame 13-year-old girls, dude
― brigitte beardo (donna rouge), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's just this laughably generic and meaningless idea of what a "fun time" is supposed to be, without any sort of real thought or substance.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:03 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
they also dont drive
― max, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
Why do you hate partying?
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
I feel like rich 13 year olds probably have more 'parties' than not rich 13 year olds
― iatee, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
It doesn't make sense, it's like if I wrote a song about how excited I was move to Florida and retire and work on my Precious Moments collection.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's called ~imagination~ stevie
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
you don't realize how awesome that song would be tho, that's why you don't have 8 mill page views
xp
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
they want to party, because they have heard partying is cool thing to do in a song
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
um, I remember 13-year-old girls partying quite a lot back in the day
I also remember a startlingly high number of teen pregnancies starting around age 15
FUN FUN FUN FUN
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
So Friday is #69 on US iTunes - I'm surprised that anyone has bought this, but do we have any idea what kind of sales this would translate to?
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
exactly, also makes them pretty much like everyone else xp to ice
― iatee, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
except for kesha, there are a lot of miles on those tires
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Does anyone have access to SoundScan?
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
they want to party, because they have heard partying is cool thing to do in a song― ice cr?m, Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:09 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:09 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
But my whole point is that it isn't even "they"! It's two guys' idea of "they"
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm guessing this song's chart ascent will be so widely reported that it's just a matter of time til we get exact sales figures
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Will it chart higher on the Hot 100 than "Bed Intruder"?
― Joseph Beuys II Men (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
absolutely
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:15 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i refuse to engage w/the concept of these 'two guys' theyre too weird i dont understand them
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
at 13, all my songs were about how depressed I was b/c girls like RB wanted nothing to do w/ me. I was soooooo misunderstood, see..
― *emergency alternative display name (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've posted the only song I remember writing when I was 13 on the boards before:
Poems You Wrote When You Were 15
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://twitter.com/_RebeccaBlack_/status/47718066150309890http://twitter.com/_RebeccaBlack_/status/47730311290814464
i think she might be awesome
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 17:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
can really see this going #1 on itunes, the day that comes after thursday. the next day after is is saturday, and after that comes sunday.
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
*after it
lol @ lex thinking her being a panic at the disco superfan is awesome
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
'A', he'd say. Then 'B'. 'C' would usually follow...
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
obviously you guys have never seen catherine hardwicke's cinema-verite thirteen
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^ive seen this, classic material. also slightly racist iirc?
― deej, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh word? it's a good film, way the hell >>>> larry clark.
― suggest and ban is my favourite combination (history mayne), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wasn't Thirteen cowritten by the actress who played the corrupting friend?
― Joseph Beuys II Men (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
xxpost
I don't remember any racism? A lot of the kids (not girls) the protag. hung out with were minorities....
....wait.
― yeah (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, it was based partly on her own life iirc
― brigitte beardo (donna rouge), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
so i guess we can't rule out that partying on friday involves whippets and punching one another in the face
― brigitte beardo (donna rouge), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
I swear this video reminds me of the Shaggs updated for 2011 more than anything else. There's the general idea of what a song is, how it's sung, what a video should look like, etc. but the specifics remain mysterious and just out of reach. Technology has changed a lot, so on first listen it's hard to hear the fact that this isn't all that far from Foot Foot.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
― yeah (kelpolaris), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:34 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
minority men were cast as crepes & white dude was the only one who was like, 'you are too young 4 boning' iirc
based on a tru story complicates that somewhat i suppose
― deej, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
i can't remember it that well. but in itself that's not necessarily racist.
― suggest and ban is my favourite combination (history mayne), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
so has anyone figured out what part of orange county she's from? the o.c. register wouldn't say anything more than that she attends a "northeast orange county middle school." no stalko, just curious.― minsktrans.by (get bent), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 4:10 AM (10 hours ago)
― minsktrans.by (get bent), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 4:10 AM (10 hours ago)
heck, with a bit of googling, you can find out what school she goes to (surprisingly it isn't one that charges tuition and/or is run by $cientologists) and see photos of her in theatrical garb, standing next to a male schoolmate who also appeared in the Friday video. but when I earned my google degree, I took an oath not to spread that kind of personal info abroad.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.urbanedjournal.org/reviews/breview0008.pdf
this dude lays it out.
Evie draws Tracy into her world of cool older boys, nearly all of whom are African American. Amazingly, not one of these older males of color is possessed of any sort of moral compass. They are represented as utterly amoral, freely trafficking in drugs and sex with middle-school aged girls. I suppose this gives the audience the doubly transgressive thrill of watching 13 year old girls having interracial sex. Yet I was disturbed by the fact that none of the film’s black males ever questions whether it’s OK to commit statutory rape with 13 year old girls, to provide them with illicit drugs and alcohol, or to swap them like baseball cards.
I suppose this gives the audience the doubly transgressive thrill of watching 13 year old girls having interracial sex.
how_to_win_an_argument
― suggest and ban is my favourite combination (history mayne), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
well... no more racist than thishttp://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/8912576.Midsomer_Murders_producer_suspended_after_race_row/
kinda inevitable that we've been trained to look at everything from a PC perspective as well. 13, i think, manages to violate that with little aim to harm, as seen here ^
― yeah (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
I have a hunch that Ark representatives visited school and community singing/acting programs in upscale areas and pitched their music video scheme to wide-eyed kids and their neurotic but filthy rich parents. that's what I'd do if I had no shame. I really doubt that Ark gets all of its business from random people who stumble across their website.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
the money's out there: pick it up it's yours
― suggest and ban is my favourite combination (history mayne), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
"your child is amazing!" why because $50,000."
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 19:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, i did a bit of googling but got bored and gave up. *shrug* congrats on the degree tho!
― minsktrans.by (get bent), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 19:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
but there is a wikipedia page now for "friday" and it says anaheim hills.
― minsktrans.by (get bent), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 19:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's hard for me to make the Shaggs comparison because it's such a different aesthetic and the tools of production have changed so much. It's harder to hear earnestness through autotune ... but maybe that's just me.
― sarahel, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 19:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
ha ha oh shit, rebecca black attends my old middle school! and she'll probably attend my old high school if the ~fame~ doesn't take her.
― accredited butter grader and dairy technologist (reddening), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 19:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
THE FAME MONSTER
― minsktrans.by (get bent), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 19:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
Until the Fame Takes Her - a Rebecca Black Metal documentary
― sarahel, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 19:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
man if she's an anaheim hills drama kid i guess i can't hate on her for making a goofy pop song w/ friends. when i was her age my friends and i were trying to send x-files spec scripts to chris carter.
― accredited butter grader and dairy technologist (reddening), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 19:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
# (cur | prev) 14:32, 16 March 2011 Boing! said Zebedee (talk | contribs) (6,634 bytes) (Reverted 1 edit by Imascrabblefreak (talk); We don't actually want links to common everyday words - people know what Friday is. (TW))# (cur | prev) 14:31, 16 March 2011 Imascrabblefreak (talk | contribs) (6,679 bytes) (figured a way to include a link to day itself.)
Don't know why I find this so funny.
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 19:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
lmao this song is, at the very least, very likely to chart in new zealand, where it is currently the #13 track on itunes.
― teledyldonix, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 20:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
I love NZ!
― bugs a. bunny (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
sheep will listen to anything
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Joseph Beuys II Men (jaymc), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:34 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― brigitte beardo (donna rouge), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:35 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol marketing
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
umm no.
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah this has absolutely nothing to do with the Shaggs
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
I hope this isn't some kind of sardonic "people are sheep remark" because if it is ughhh
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pretty sure it was about actual sheep
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
So given the local connection I'm going to be writing a small piece on this for the OC Weekly tomorrow. Should be fun!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp It's got a bit to do with the Shaggs, I'd think. Though it's p much an inversion of, like, earnestness.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's like comparing Showgirls to Plan 9 from Outer Space
^otm
― bugs a. bunny (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah that's a good comparison, but things are just so much different. With the Shaggs the joke was that they couldn't play, sing, keep time, or write songs, while "technically" there's really nothing wrong with "Friday", it's not really that much different from say Justin Bieber if you're not listening close (you know "my WUHRRRLD, is your WUHRRRRLD), but if you pay attention it becomes bizarre and hilarious. I mean you can connect them on some sort of overall general level but I dunno, she's got more to do with Mrs. Miller I'd say
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
sorry totally disappeared for two hours and now the discussion has thoroughly moved on, but xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxpost: yeah thirteen is eyeroll and easily-shocked-parent-baiting in many, many ways, one of which is how all the bad kids are black, but it's also weirdly powerful. the stuff between holly hunter (<3) and wood is really good.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think it was a joke about how new zealand has a lot of sheep (apparently even more than it has humans)
― teledyldonix, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
can't wait for Black's Christmas song later this year
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
this movie is awesome, they should totally do a sequel called Rebecca Black Sheep
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh i've been meaning to see that
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've been wanting to see that movie forever!
― bugs a. bunny (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol I forgot that Thirteen was a Catherine Hardwicke movie
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Guys, nothing she does again is going to be anything like this. There's now a conscious awareness of audiences' perception that makes it more or less impossible for her to recreate this in any form. Like, anything she does is going to be with a huge wink or something that will negate everything that makes "Friday" funny/amusing/great in the first place.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean clearly this was supposed to be "Hey, fun pop song, so cool!", not the laughing stock it turned out to be. There is no more room for any sort of naïveté
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
i still think it's a cute pop song.
― minsktrans.by (get bent), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's no worse than, like, a back-to-school jc penney commercial
― minsktrans.by (get bent), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think when i was thirteen shit like this kindof bummed me out that obviously loads of other thirteen yr olds were partying like mad every weekend and i was like "why do we only like shoplift and hang out in the alley beside the cinema"
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
which is the kind of simulacra any thirteen year old would buy into in writing a pop song i think
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
like it would be a p cool and smart 13 year old that would write a song about their actual real experiences instead of like "i love you baby" shorthand
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
my 13th year was either spent in the principal's office or in my room listening to metal records
― minsktrans.by (get bent), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
mine was listening to red hot chili peppers and being way too cool and superior try smoking
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
there have been like indications tho
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
shoplifting & hanging out in the alley > partying like mad
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
Having a daydream that there will be a rockist version soon, where a 56-year-old general counsel/vintage Gibson collecter pays to have Ten Years After reform with himself at the bassist.
― bendy, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
Guys, nothing she does again is going to be anything like this. There's now a conscious awareness of audiences' perception that makes it more or less impossible for her to recreate this in any form. Like, anything she does is going to be with a huge wink or something that will negate everything that makes "Friday" funny/amusing/great in the first place.― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 5:39 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban PermalinkI mean clearly this was supposed to be "Hey, fun pop song, so cool!", not the laughing stock it turned out to be. There is no more room for any sort of naïveté― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 5:41 PM (4 minutes ago)
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 5:39 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 5:41 PM (4 minutes ago)
I don't think her handlers were naive. I mean I doubt Ark's attitude was along the lines of, "genius! this'll go straight to the top of the chart's!" their business model was to cut low-budget music videos that stage kids and their parents would be proud to add to their portfolios.
"Friday"s producers were probably well aware that it was a goofy, ramshackle affair, but I doubt it mattered to them as long as it made the customer happy. on a spectrum between total naivete (i.e. unselfconsciously thinking the song was awesome and radio-ready) and total jadedness (i.e. setting out to make a "so bad it's good" meme), I think these Ark people fall somewhere in the middle. even if they take note of the song's ironic hipster appeal, I doubt they'll change their priorities much because that would mean compromising their main source of income, i.e. the rich kids and parents who need to be convinced that the project is being done in complete earnestness.
I'm not going to speculate on how all this internet attention will affect Rebecca's self-perception, because I really don't know.
Tay Zonday is a good example of a guy who started out in earnest but lapsed into self-parody once he gauged the public's reaction. but he started out as a self-employed, unpaid nobody of a singer, so he had nothing to lose by winking and joining the side of the people who mocked him. I can't say the same about our friends at Ark.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
xxpost yeah seriously when i Regret not doing cool teenagery things when i was 13 it's mostly "hanging out in the alley"
i played starcraft and made parody film noirs
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
a million xposts to frogbs - "sheep will listen to anything" comment was 100% lol New Zealand is populated entirely by sheep ie poor attempt at regional humor
but I stand by it
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
when I was 13, I would do magic shows at the birthdays of 11 year old girls who would nowadays want to make a video with the Ark.
― bendy, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
I kind of hope for RB's sake that she turns down whatever offers are being made at the moment and doesn't try to be a real pop star. I don't see how things can end well if she tries to make more of this than it is.
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
When I was 13 I had three friends and spent most of my time doing homework. Now I wish I'd been doing something else, e.g. partying.
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.rockcamp.com/
― da croupier, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
don't take it personally...I have spent a lot of time on message boards like RYM, SomethingAwful, and 2+2 that totally take the humor out of things like this and say stuff like "this is LITERALLY the end of humanity", so yeah I'm kinda jaded
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
my sister just reminded me that rebecca black's celebration of friday is some straight-up BULLSHIT because fridays are when you have to do the "coyote run" at our old middle school. you do a half-lap around the track, run up this steep incline near the edge of campus that's right next to the foul-smelling dumpsters of nearby businesses, run all over campus while people who aren't in class laugh at you, and then come back and do another half lap for completionism's sake. all the parties in the world couldn't make me look forward to friday coyote runs.
also if today's drama nerds are anything like me and my friends were, she and her crew probably spend their weekends acting disaffected at the starbucks down by cinema city.
― accredited butter grader and dairy technologist (reddening), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
re: rockcamp
Is that rainbow beard from the Nilsson documentary?!!
― bendy, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
There's a shot of that Two And A Half Men kid in the rockcamp intro video - sadly he doesn't have a rock video on youtube yet
― da croupier, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 5:39 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i think the last thing anybody expects is that she will do anything that's remotely as funny as "Friday" or helps "Friday" seem funnier. honestly anything we learn about her other than that she's a normal untalented rich teenager will be a bummer, and that includes sad personal life, winky in-on-the-joke antics, etc.
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
her followup, "The Seat I Chose," is a much more introspective affair
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh my god
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
This is making me v uncomfortable/embarassed
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 6:12 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
obviously their #1 business plan/revenue stream is attracting gullible clients to finance these songs and videos, but i definitely think part of the whole idea was that eventually one of them would (non-ironically/comedically) become a hit or one of the kids would become a YouTube superstar and they'd cash in big on that. i mean their non-Rebecca Black videos are generally as polished if not way more polished than the videos that launched Justin Bieber's career, it's not that hard to believe if they kept doing these for a year or two they'd stumble into actual success.
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
that this song is an earworm has been well-documented in itt, and I too have had it stuck in my head all day. The maddening part is that, instead of the whole thing, or even a complete verse, the only thing that has been cycling over and over ad infinitum is: partyinpartyin YEAH partyinpartyin YEAH, FUN FUN FUN FUN, partyinpartyin YEAH partyinpartyin YEAH etc.
― *emergency alternative display name (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
a good bro of mine runs this business, he's an amazing guitarist and manages to eat off rock camp for dadz
http://rockcampfordads.com/
― what do it take to be a legend like noz is? (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
the only thing that has been cycling over and over ad infinitum is: partyinpartyin YEAH partyinpartyin YEAH, FUN FUN FUN FUN, partyinpartyin YEAH partyinpartyin YEAH etc.
yup
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
your username is not helping the earworm leave my head btw gbx :)
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
tbh it reminds me less of Rebecca Black and more of
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think Rebecca's missing one key point -- weekends suck when you're a teen. yea, it's awesome to not have to go to school, but anything you do on the weekend is likely dictated by your parents and requires you doing a ton of chores first. and fuck it if you're grounded.
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Unless you're spoiled rotten.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
when I was 13, everything was worth it as long as I wasn't go to school
― Morty Maxwell (crüt), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
going
you can see where this philosophy got me
― Morty Maxwell (crüt), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
i mean my weekends were ok but that's cuz i played sports and stuff....some of my friends had shitty assed weekends
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
I definitely wasn't partying, partying yeah, but I had plenty of fun fun fun fun
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
i had fun that didn't involve other people cuz they hated me
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh, man, the reviews on iTunes. I can't C&P from there, but they're worth reading, especially because there are at least a few people who have obviously encountered the song for the first time while browsing through iTunes and are reviewing it on its own merits.
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 March 2011 01:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
i see my frieeeensss
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Thursday, 17 March 2011 01:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
I see my
's
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 17 March 2011 01:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
looooooooool
― brigitte beardo (donna rouge), Thursday, 17 March 2011 01:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
I showed my wife this earlier this evening, and literally a minute later I heard my three year old, happily playing in another room, start singing a similar upbeat song about the days of the week. "Friday, Friday, Friday! Then comes Saturday and Sunday!"
It was adorable. And scary.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 March 2011 01:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
weekends suck when you're a teen. yea, it's awesome to not have to go to school, but anything you do on the weekend is likely dictated by your parents and requires you doing a ton of chores first.
Man, seriously!? My weekends in high school involved sleeping in, sitting in my room writing a lot of stories, and roller skating.
― Fun Fun Fun Fun auf der Autobahn (Trayce), Thursday, 17 March 2011 01:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
And certainly not being told what to do my my parents - they let us be kids and go play/ride our bikes/etc
I dont recall any 13 years olds I know ever driving cars though, haw.
― Fun Fun Fun Fun auf der Autobahn (Trayce), Thursday, 17 March 2011 01:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
self-mutilation was a blast 7 days a week iirc
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 March 2011 01:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm still back on my Frans
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 01:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
I delivered newspapers in middle school, so my weekends carried the dread of having to wake up well BEFORE dawn to make my rounds. Esp. in the winter (shudder). Of course, this did not stop me from partyin partyin YEAH, FUN FUN FUN FUN.
― *emergency alternative display name (Pillbox), Thursday, 17 March 2011 01:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
bffs best frans forever
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 17 March 2011 02:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg the iTunes reviews
ummm no (1 star)by emme123bad voise, it sucked, pick a seat
bad voise, it sucked, pick a seat
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 02:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
heee heee
PICK A SEAT, MORAN
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 17 March 2011 02:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
this needs to win Pazz and Jopp 2011
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Thursday, 17 March 2011 02:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
Rue (1 star)by LittleTeaTreesu wut
u wut
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 02:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
argh that should be "uh wut"
i almost put that Insane Clown Posse song on my year-end list last year, so i wouldn't be surprised if i face similar temptation w/ this as it slowly takes over my brain
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 02:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
Huh. (1 star)by arabella zThis may be the worst song written. I'm even a 7th grader and it's terrible for kids. The lyrics have no rhythm. Waiting at the bus stop. I see my friends! Honestly? When I first heard it,which was yesterday, I burst out laughing. When I played it for my sister she asked me if someone made this as a joke. She sounds like my 50 year old aunt. She sounds worse than Selena Gomez on her worst day. No one cares about what you do on Friday, rebecca.
This may be the worst song written. I'm even a 7th grader and it's terrible for kids. The lyrics have no rhythm. Waiting at the bus stop. I see my friends! Honestly? When I first heard it,which was yesterday, I burst out laughing. When I played it for my sister she asked me if someone made this as a joke. She sounds like my 50 year old aunt. She sounds worse than Selena Gomez on her worst day. No one cares about what you do on Friday, rebecca.
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 02:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
C'MON BITCH EVEN CRAIG DAVID KNEW HOW TO SING SONGS ABOUT DAYS OF THE WEEK
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Thursday, 17 March 2011 02:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
"No one cares what you do on Friday, Rebecca"....I hear this delivered with a perfect mean-girl tone
ReBECca
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 17 March 2011 02:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
"We were all talking, and we decided that, like, since you are so bad at singing and everyone hates you and whatever, that you're out of the group."
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 17 March 2011 02:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
― corey, Thursday, 17 March 2011 02:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
"the people who wrote, produced and put that insanely strong autotune on should be shoot!!!!!"
― Black Arkestra, Thursday, 17 March 2011 03:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
10.4 million views.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 17 March 2011 04:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
56. Writing a good "weekend" song is hard to pull off. I fear that the guy who prompted me to begin this thread will say "Nonsense! Anybody can write a good 'weekend' song!" When I see his "weekend" song on the charts, I will concede his point. Until then, I'll note that many, many "weekend" songs are released each year, but very few of them actually poke their heads above the surface. This is because most of them sound forced. Rebecca Black's greatest gift is his ability to sound natural; engaged; genuine. Even when he's singing in a very mannered fashion.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 17 March 2011 04:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
Thanking u, screen name
― bad voise, it sucked, pick a seat (Trayce), Thursday, 17 March 2011 04:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
Rebecca Black's greatest gift is his ability to sound natural; engaged; genuine. Even when he's singing in a very mannered fashion.
...his?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 04:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
The only "genuine" sounding thing about this girl is the fact she is utterly, absolutely tone-deaf and cannot sing. Her voice is flat, nasal and monotonic and even autotune cant save it.
― bad voise, it sucked, pick a seat (Trayce), Thursday, 17 March 2011 04:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
And yes OK that didn't stop the likes of John Lydon but you know. Aaargrhh.
― bad voise, it sucked, pick a seat (Trayce), Thursday, 17 March 2011 04:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
SHE's
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 17 March 2011 04:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
100 Reasons Why "Ignition - Remix" Is So Damned Great
― dom p's rusty Nuts (sic), Thursday, 17 March 2011 05:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
cost to mutchit suckno goodsend to many disk.Me and my friends took a bisk and lit it on fire and froze it slamedit angaisnt the boor.
― minsktrans.by (get bent), Thursday, 17 March 2011 05:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 05:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
tshirt koans '011
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 17 March 2011 05:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Frank hats for 30 rock:
Send to many disk
No good
― scorpions on my nips and smear peanut butter on my ass (the table is the table), Thursday, 17 March 2011 05:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
dying over here
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 17 March 2011 05:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
maybe tomorrow I will buy a cheap tshirt and write that on it and wear it
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 17 March 2011 06:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
stevie if you do that you will be my hero
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 17 March 2011 06:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
and then post a pic of yourself wearing it to the WDYLL thread
a perceptive comment, from user "bitchimspecial" on last.fm!
No but really, "Friday" reminds me of how I thought every teen felt about Friday when I was 8.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 March 2011 08:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 March 2011 07:45 (3 days ago)
Yes. :(
― lycanthrope electrif (Pashmina), Thursday, 17 March 2011 09:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
song of the year of the week for me!
― Adobie Gillistrator (latebloomer), Thursday, 17 March 2011 09:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
― WD-40 (acoleuthic), Thursday, 17 March 2011 11:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
― lycanthrope electrif (Pashmina), Thursday, March 17, 2011 4:22 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
yeah, just came on to post abt how THIS morning it was:
"I don't want this weekend to eeeeeend / YO R. B. Rebecca Black! Front seat back seat, drivin' cruisin', fast lanes, switchin lanes!"
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 17 March 2011 11:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
this would actually be a really hard karaoke song because so many of the lyrics are just filler words crammed in - nothing really follows logically from what preceded it
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 March 2011 11:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
The rap is kind of like someone explained to the guy what rapping was and he had to do it at short notice without ever actually hearing an example of it
I like that on the Dylan one the top rated comment is a spoof inane Youtube nostalgia moment
― MPx4A, Thursday, 17 March 2011 12:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
I agree. If only there existed this 'machine' that projected lyrics for the singer on a 'screen'
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Thursday, 17 March 2011 12:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Does this song sort of remind anyone else of united states of electronica?
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 17 March 2011 12:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
"My name is Pato and I'm here to say,that Rebecca Black really loves Fri-day!"
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 March 2011 12:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
this song keep getting confused w/"california gurls" in my head
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 March 2011 12:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Finding CJ Fam's Ordunurry Perpstore more of an ongoing disturbance than Friday at present
― MPx4A, Thursday, 17 March 2011 12:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
After several views it suddenly struck me that she's totally ditching school and going all Ferris Bueller on us. There she is, waiting at the bus stop, when suddenly her ne'er-do-well friends pull up in their (stolen? borrowed?) car, and she's thinking: do I go to school? Or do I ditch and hang with my homies? The decision is easy, though, because it's FRIDAY. Know what I'm saying? Next thing you know, we flash forward to the end of an all-day rager and they're all blissfully blitzed.
The dude rapping in the car? He's a cop on the way to bust the teen party. That's why he's so happy, and why he's flying solo.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 March 2011 12:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
"it's friday" in my head pretty much all day yesterday and this morning. just repeating forever no matter what i think about. total parasite in my brain! i can't remember the last time this has happened. kinda spooky.
― scott seward, Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
there must be some scientific explanation. the tone or something. it just repeats in a loop...
TS: "Fun fun fun til your daddy takes your T-bird away" vs. "Fun fun fun on the autobahn" vs. "fun fun fun fun."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is the song u hear when u die
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp lol same here, like some awful mantra underlying every other thought. i was able to push it away for a time while meditating this morning but kept creeping back in - Fri-eeday Fri-eeday, ge'in down on Fri-eeday. MAKE IT STOP!!!
― herbal bert (herb albert), Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
taking the baton from LJ:
it's Friee-day, it's Friee-day, gotta get down on Frieday!
we we we so excited
partyin' partyin'
― dom p's rusty Nuts (sic), Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
god I love that line:
weweweso excited
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
the point in the video where those words flash on the screen right before she sings them was where my jaw kinda dropped and i was like "are they really gonna...OH GOD...THIS IS EVERYTHING PEOPLE SAID IT WOULD BE AND MORE"
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^^ yes
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
jealous of our friends in timezones where it's already friday
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's fuckin thursday morning here
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
I watched this video once (on Tuesday) and I can't remember how the song goes and I am terrified to watch it again lest it lodge in my brain as it has for so many of you unfortunates.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
but Jenny, don't you want to be partying partying (YEAH)?
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
(Keep in mind I pretty much only listen to the sped-up/happy hardcore version at this point. Then it's a PERFECT earworm.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm hearing a Swedish Chef thing happening with her voice; the overenunciation of the "i" syllable in "Friday", and the way she says "forward" ("foerr-werrd"). It's kind of the best thing about this for me right now.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
Note to self: do not post on RYM anymore
Waiting to see what will happen to her next. If she'll become the next Justin Bieber or this was just a one hit wonder.
This is such a horrible song. The lyrics could have been written by a 3rd grader probably and its simply asinine and stupid as fuck. I hope she goes away, my ears already have to hear enough bad shit daily as it is.
No, really, that song was awful. Poor lyrics, arranged awkwardly, hurts the ears, saddens the soul. But this is RYM after all, the home of ironic fandom. My Pal Foot-Foot, anyone?
But this is RYM after all, the home of ironic fandom. My Pal Foot-Foot, anyone?
Whats the big deal? It sounds like every other pop song ever released.
The shame of it is really how they're exploiting the hell out of these naive kids. They're going to have very troubled teenage years once their classmates get a hold of this shit. Rebecca Black will probably end up being the next Brenda Ann Spencer.
I've heard people talk about this a bunch of times over the past couple days... what the hell is so special about this? Seems like a normal (though below average in my opinion) pop song to me.
I stopped listening to this song after the chorus. Does it get better?
'Somewhat'? The lyrics to this and the few other songs I've heard from these guys... well, they're like Futurama punchlines (Fryisms) in their degree of absurd redundancy (Lines like "I can't get you out of my mind. You got me thinking of you." as an entire chorus). I'm honestly a bit... er... not tired. What's the word? In disagreement. I'm a bit in disagreement with this sentiment that seems to be popular among RYMers that, basically, any pop song is good pop. Presumably, there's an assumption here that pop shouldn't have to have standards. Wait. Nevermind. You just said "catchy."
I'm honestly a bit... er... not tired. What's the word? In disagreement. I'm a bit in disagreement with this sentiment that seems to be popular among RYMers that, basically, any pop song is good pop. Presumably, there's an assumption here that pop shouldn't have to have standards. Wait. Nevermind. You just said "catchy."
as awful as this song is i do feel bad for her, she's been deulded by people that she's going to be a great pop star and that she has a wonderful voice when sh'es just going to be the butt of jokes and fade into obscurity. can't be particularly easy to deal with.
Everybody in that video deserves to die whilst painfully riddled with disentery. Bloody awful.
Ho hum. It's Friday here tomorrow. I was bored of this whole 'Friday' thing by yesterday (Wednesday). btw it's Thursday.
It's Friday here tomorrow.
I was bored of this whole 'Friday' thing by yesterday (Wednesday).
btw it's Thursday.
It's still an amusingly poor song, but I think all this hype has way overstated how bad it really is. It sounds like something from Disney Radio, and it's funny as a (as the first thread stated, "unintentionally funny") pop song. Is it really worthy of ten million youtube views and a writeup in Time Magazine? Not really.
I would not be surprised if the marketing team behind the video/song pushed the "worst ever" as a brilliant form of viral marketing. Taking a bad song by an unknown artist and making it seen by millions = genius even if the song is not.
Every single person on that thread is OTM (off the mark)
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
No thank you. As I recall from my one listen, she made partying sound singularly unpleasant.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
but it's so FUN FUN FUN FUN
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
My god, you are like Odysseus tied to the mast.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Who will be the first to rock the ironic ringtone?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
will be so disappointed in our corporate media Overlords if she doesn't sing this on some show tomorrow
― herbal bert (herb albert), Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
She is. Good Morning America's booked her.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
I wonder how her voice will hold up live? She's really pushing those pipes. In fact, I suspect some sort of studio sweetener, but I can't be sure.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
awesome, i can sing along while I have my bowl and have cereal
― herbal bert (herb albert), Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
has anyone put a donk on this yet?
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Fun fun fun on the autobahn"
hate to be THAT GUY but it's "wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der autobahn"
― Morty Maxwell (crüt), Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
The concept for the music video is based on a typical Friday for Rebecca Black.[11] She wakes up and then heads to school, meeting up with her friends on the way. The focus then turns to the evening, as Black and her friends ride in a Chrysler Sebring convertible, before arriving at a party.[12] An adult guest rapper makes an appearances towards the end of the song, driving a car.[13]
― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
"driving a car"
― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
"adult guest rapper"
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
"concept"
― Spectrist, Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
Usher also made a surprise appearance at Super Bowl XLV to sing his song, " OMG" with the Black Eyed Peas' musician will.i.am.[92] He appeared on a rope from above, in a similar style to the Back Eyed Peas.Most recently, in March 2011, Usher appeared as a guest rapper in the music video for "Friday," by Rebecca Black.
Most recently, in March 2011, Usher appeared as a guest rapper in the music video for "Friday," by Rebecca Black.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Usher_%28entertainer%29&oldid=418393132
― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh oh ohoh ohoh oh my gosh
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Jey has also produced remixes. In 2010, he remixed US guitar legend and former member of glam rock band Poison, Richie Kotzen's top selling single "You Can't Save Me".[citation needed]
― Morty Maxwell (crüt), Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
"[citation needed]"
― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
That Usher thing is incredible, please let that stay
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hahahahahahaha at that Usher entry.
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=active&client=firefox-a&hs=Mvu&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=usher+rebecca+black&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
good, i needed a new DN
― An adult guest rapper (donna rouge), Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
Usher was in justin bieber's first music video, usher's in rebecca black's first music video. Am I the only one who sees a connection here
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha "that guy is Usher, right?" should really be in the rolling "Is This Racist?" thread
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
i bought a new box of cereal yesterday just to be sure of not running out before frieday, frieday :)
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
when did winnie cooper make this music video?
― The Scenario (chrisv2010), Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
and whats up with brace face on the right and her lack of rhythm.
― The Scenario (chrisv2010), Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Clearly she chose the more unflattering seat in the car, duh. Next time she should think a little.
Guest rapper looks (and sounds!) more plausibly Timbaland than Usher. Restart this misinformation campaign, please.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
the guest rapper is MC Frankenberry
― The Scenario (chrisv2010), Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
whoever starts a #justinbiebervsrebeccablack hashtag on Twitter could be in for a few lolworthy responses
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
the (semi-)famous rapper Pato most resembles is Maino imo
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
literally woke up with it in my head this morning
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
i have watched this at least once every morning after i wake up, usually right before i have my bowl
― An adult guest rapper (donna rouge), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^ otm ditto
― Mordy, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
conversation I had this morning:
WIFE: I don't know if you'll be able to go or not but I put my comp for tomorrow's show under your name.ME: That's this weekend? I thought it was next weekend.WIFE: Nope, it's tomorrow.ME: On FRIIIDAY FRIIIDAYWIFE: *exasperated noise*ME: PARTYING PARTYTING YEAHWIFE: You aren't allowed to come to the party after now.ME: FUN FUN FUN FUNWIFE: Aren't you late for work?
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
i am djing a kind of uptight cultural event tomorrow.... y/n
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
y!
― adult guest rapper (Eazy), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
for some reason i just imagine a version where she gets to the FUN FUN FUN FUN part and the song just disintegrates into an endless loop of robotic FUN FUN FUN FUN
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
y xp
― Mordy, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
Y
― iatee, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg Y
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
YYYYYY
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
those squares are gonna have to learn about partyin' partyin' YEAH sometime
― An adult guest rapper (donna rouge), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
(oh, Donna Rouge beat me to the name, gotta change unless we all become adult guest rapper)
― adult guest rapper (Eazy), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
:D :D :D
― An adult guest rapper (donna rouge), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
this song is kinda like http://www.livescience.com/13046-zombie-fungus-carpenter-ant-brain-altering.html for humans and we don't yet know what it wants us to do
― Mordy, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
keep having the "partying, partying YEAH" go through my head with different verbs substituted, viz. "marketing, marketing, YEAH", "formatting, formatting, CLICK", etc
cannot look at any verbs with a 3-syllable present participle now, driving me mad
also imagining this little girl with rich parents who want to make this beautiful princess future for her, imagining ('magining YEAH) that her mother is in fact Philippe's mother from Achewood and she takes her new video home and mom is very concerned about why these pop lyrics have no verbs in. What is this "we we we so excited" business? did we not pay enough for grammar tutors for you?
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
seriously I wanted to do exactly that loop
my quest to drive myself insane via music proceeds nicely
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
after a while that loop of "fun fun fun fun" starts to feel...incantatory. like some sort of shamanistic ritual chant.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha its sounds like the field
― max, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
someone needs to rap over that shit
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
― bugs a. bunny (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
NOW YOU KNOW IT
whew
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
"most people call him usher 2.0"
citation needed?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yahoo! Answers...no citations necessary
― bugs a. bunny (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
i may be wrong but i think his name is husher
― max, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
that Fun loop is pure trance
― herbal bert (herb albert), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
husher!!!!!
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://i.imgur.com/XaYr9.gif
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
next time usher releases a shitty single, "husher" will be my one word review
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
― I may be wrong but I think his name is Husher (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
xxp the letters yud tuf nun lamed vuv summons the beast
― Mordy, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
also dying @ "most people call him usher 2.0"
― max, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
Source(s): me
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
hahaha yeah, they all agreed on tuesday xp
― An adult guest rapper (donna rouge), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg lex thanking you for that loop
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
Damn, now I wonder if I can sneak in that loop into my story...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
something that might be obvious but im gonna say anyway is that part of the massive appeal of something like this (for me) is that it hasn't been seized upon by the normal media yet. the only commentary is like, animated gifs and comment boxes. (and the song and video itself is outsider art, in a way - also outside the "normal" media). as soon as she does her today show appearance, as soon as the onion does a NIB on her, as soon as SNL gets someone to imitate her, it'll be over (in that sense)
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
so completely otm
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
wau this loop is perfect
please extend it to 35 minutes long and play the 35-minute Bieberdrone underneath
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
brb, rapping
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
j/k everybody relax
this is my favorite of the 20,000 remixes anyway
Fun Fun Fun Fun loop makes it on ilx singles poll at the end of the year or I'll eat my hat.
― I may be wrong but I think his name is Husher (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
dan your wish is my command
http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DQspuCt1FM9M&start1=&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fv%2Fjqq3cgvZSTE%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den&start2=&authorName=IGotThisYouGotThis
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh my god, will I get anything done today at all...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
you guys in that 5x slowed one it's really, really worth hanging on 'til she gets to the chorus at about the four minute mark. Huge empty space suspension between "take" and "Friday" - and in the space, peeking through, it's God
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:32 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark
that's probably less true of this than most other internet memes, tbh. i mean, as i pointed out upthread, the main thing that really kicked off this video getting tons of hits (after being online for almost a month beforehand) was that it was featured on the official blog of Tosh.0, a TV show dedicated to making fun of online memes.
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
dan your wish is my commandhttp://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DQspuCt1FM9M&start1=&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fv%2Fjqq3cgvZSTE%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den&start2=&authorName=IGotThisYouGotThis
*mind blown*
― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Have to turn the volume down a bit on RB though.
huh! well, i'm still going to feel like something's been taken away when i see some late-night host cracking wise about it.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Thursday, March 17, 2011 11:47 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
yeah, but then it's glorious
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
why? the media is the internet and the internet is the media. we're not in an actual series of underground tubes. (xpost)
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
dogg if u cant tell the difference between 4chan and leno...
― max, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm not sure the ~mainstream media~ have yet got a handle on it and its appeal (yes APPEAL) - a lot of the commentary is stuck in the 5 minutes after you first hear it, the "omg this is the worst song ever" stage. that is insufficient! we are ~beyond~ that now.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
god that little repeating synth doo DOO dadoo that I only noticed two minutes into FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN is beautiful.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
― max, Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:50 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark
well some memes are confined to hardcore nerd sites like 4chan for a good while before spreading all over the net, that's not really the case here
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
you guys the idea that this one hadn't reached bed-intruder saturation level by yesterday morning is hopelessly quaint
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
I spent most of earlier listening to Emeralds-esque stuff and the "synth doo DOO dado" makes this fit right in.
― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
†† ℜΞBΞCC▲ B\▲CK ††
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Fℜ†D▲Y
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:53 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
otm
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
whoa @ that moment
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
Aero, if you're referring to my question about whether "Friday" will outrank "Bed Intruder" on the Hot 100, I think that's a slightly different issue. (Though I do now think it's inevitable.)
― Joseph Beuys II Men (jaymc), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
a passing spacecadet requested slowbieberloop, not me! I want a Busta Rhymes a capella thrown on top of this
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DafddnMZbc0A&start1=0&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Djqq3cgvZSTE&start2=0&authorName=IGotThisYouGotThis
I wish I could adjust the tempo because the Busta a capella is just slightly off.
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
anyone coming to this? http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=190535860984629
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
Been listening to the Rebecca/Bieber mash for almost 20 minutes now. Must... stop...
― emil.y, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
Same here!
― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
u give me butterflies deep insiiiiiiiideu give me butterfliesI dunno where 2 ruuun, ruuun, ruuun, ruuun from yoooooooouso I gotta sayu give me butterflies deep insiiiiiiiideu give me butterfliesI dunno what 2 dooo, dooo, dooo, without yoooooooouboy u give me butterfliiiies
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
dammit i was thinking of making that Fun Fun Fun Fun loop earlier, and slowly cranking the distortion up over 5 minutes until its a robotic chant of doooooom
― zappi, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
You should do it - much as I like the one as it stands, it wasn't quite what I was hoping for in terms of a 'spiralling into insanity' chant. It only really works for me with Bieber.
― emil.y, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
show of hands:
kickin' in the front seat?sittin' in the back seat?
rfi: which one can I take
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp - And to be fair, everything works with Slowbieber...
― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
― dayo, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 13:49 (2 days ago)
I laffed a lot at this, thx.
This record is terrible to the point where I actually feel kind of sorry for the girl, I mean I guess she probably thought she was making a proper pop rekkid, maybe even dreamed of it being a hit? Now there are like 250,000+ people all calling her a moron. Poor kid. I guess if it got playlisted and became part of the autotune morass I hear on the radio when I'm out in the car, it's very shambolicness might actually make it stand out from the crowd. It would actually be hilarious if the thing was a hit, and you couldn't get away from it for like 4-6 weeks or something. Probably ark music factory or w/e they're called's only chance of continuing, they must be cursing all this meme-y shit, which rich parent is going to use them in future after this? They'll have to splash out some real $$$$ and hire Stargate. Also, bad as this is, I have heard worse in the last few years eg dolly rockers or "my humps".
― lycanthrope electrif (Pashmina), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't get why people feel sorry for her. I'm guessing she's probably psyched about all the attention that she's getting and the fact that her crappy song probably will turn out to be a legitimate hit. She's probably making major career plans right now!
― Moodles, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
even as young as she is, she was waaaay more aware that her likeness was going to be beamed out to the internet for admiration or ridicule than the overwhelming majority of youtube superstars
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp - Yeah but that's kind of unlikely to work out for her.
― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
i mean think of all the people we've laughed at who thought they were making a home movie or public access show that would be seen by 10 people, or who didn't even know there was a camera on them at the time
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's probably already worked out better than she expected. The rest is gravy.
― Moodles, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think what will bear her psyche up in these go-go days of meme overload is the thought that "there is something about me that seems to hook people, even if the song IS bad" and i don't think she'd be wrong
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
"also ILX likes me"
― An adult guest rapper (donna rouge), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
hmmm,needs some work, but this could be addictive:
http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Djqq3cgvZSTE%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded&start1=&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4gnTXlzITqk%26feature%3Drelated&start2=&authorName=skotrok#
― scott seward, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh dear.
― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Am I the only one that sees a contemporary parallel to the whole song-poem "Beat of the Traps" MSR sort of pay someone to record your song scheme? I mean, clearly RB brought her own lyrics. Right? I hope?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
Scott, I am almost 100% certain someone released that on Wax Trax! in 1988.
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp- Couple of song-poem comparisons upthread, but I think it's been established that the music and lyrics were composed holistically by Ark.
― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
really like the busta/fun-fun loop mashup. like a lot
― I may be wrong but I think his name is Husher (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
guys we need to talk more about how its FRIEDAY FRIEDAY GOTTA GET DOWN ON FRIEDAY
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
oooh oooh where do I go to make fun of a 13 year old girl
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
right here!
― scott seward, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
her pained warbling at the beginning and weird pronunciation reminds me of the Cranberries
― herbal bert (herb albert), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
xxxxp janet jackson's chorus doesn't really mesh well with the fun fun loop, but when it's just busta rapping over it, it's a crazy new sort of greatness...
― I may be wrong but I think his name is Husher (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
attention DJP and scott (if you are unaware of these people):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_Network
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
guys i don't want this to ever not be the top of new answers
That's it! I couldn't figure out what it reminded me of, other than the Swedish Chef. Someone really should replace "fun fun fun fun" with "bork bork bork bork."
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha YES
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
there's a bit of yarl in there, a weird lineage that stretches from pearl jam through the cranberries, backtracks through nickelback, takes an unexpected detour through rihanna and pops out here
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
Dom Passantino for Vice Magazine:http://www.viceland.com/wp/2011/03/life-after-rebecca-black/
― gr8080, Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
mobb black
http://youtubedoubler.com/S6qX
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
that "human breakdown of absurdity" song-poem is so damn good
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
vice editor: "who can we get to make fun of 13 year old girls and possibly mention porn at the same time"
entire staff: "send up the dom signal"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
ugh
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Meme potential: Very, very low. She wears one of those tiny hats at an angle that fat middle class women wear on hen nights, and Fat Usher rolls up rocking a short-sleeved hoodie.
fatfatfattiefatfattasticfap
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yes. That is stunningly great.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
With a couple of ILX quotes for good measure, my take on it all:
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2011/03/local_record_review_friday_by.php
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ned tell me the truth does your editor force "Frankenstein's monster" or is that you
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
just curious not hating or anything
nicely done, Ned!
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
That was all me having to use something to say up against an unavoidable deadline and not necessarily being happy with everything I wrote. (I remember being irritated with it as I typed it but then I saw the clock again and had to live with it.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
LOL
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
She's probably making major career plans right now!
She's probably dealing with stares during passing period between PE and Social Studies right now.
― Spectrist, Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
A piece of pop culture couldn’t have been more made for Tumblr than “Friday” if Jared Leto started tattooing Sylvia Plath quotes onto his cat.
what does this even mean
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Jared Leto started tattooing Sylvia Plath quotes onto his cat.
...with a topless woman from 1977 in the background.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
my favorite thing about this thread is whenever i refresh it bumps back to the "we so excited" pie chart.
― minsktrans.by (get bent), Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, March 17, 2011 2:09 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
there's a whole bizarre history of white girls choosing to sing like this for some reason. I blame Canada (specifically Alanis and Avril).
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
You could probably go further back to Moon Unit Zappa tbqh.
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ned, you should have used my entire quote!
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
Believe me, I was tempted.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Meanwhile, interview!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-17/rebecca-black-friday-and-cyberbullying/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
At press time, the song was number 54 on the iTunes charts, ahead of Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Ke$ha.
But most of the feedback for the video involved questions like why are 13 year olds driving? Or why are they being followed by an adult rapper? Or is this a joke?
http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Rebecca-Blacks-YouTube-sensation-Friday-tops-iTune-charts/8018975
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
& from the interview Ned posted, clearing up some of the rich kid questions
Acing a casting-call audition, Black was invited to record one of two songs label heads had written for her. And, as part of a $2,000 package her mother paid for, they offered to produce an accompanying video in a bid to make a splash on YouTube. The song she picked: “Friday.”
“I didn’t write it at all,” Black said, clearing up a major misconception.
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
Acing a casting-call audition, Black was invited to record one of two songs label heads had written for her. And, as part of a $2,000 package her mother paid for,
― max, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is like a megaexpensive version of that scam where people come up to you on the street and are like "you should be a model! heres my business card!" and then if you call back they try to charge you $50 for a photoshoot and pretend to be your agent
― max, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
― lex pretend, Thursday, March 17, 2011 4:59 PM (2 hours ago)
― lex pretend, Thursday, March 17, 2011 5:00 PM (2 hours ago)
lmfao PLEASE let there be a witch house remix!
omg is she really going to be on good morning america?
― teledyldonix, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
SO MUCH FOR THE OBCENELY RICH SPOILED PARENT BRAT SCENARIO.
― scott seward, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
i mean 2 grand is 2 grand but its not like the end of the world or anything. i'd say it was cheap.
― scott seward, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Okay, straw poll...
At what point this week (if at all) did you make the switch into thinking this whole thing is kind of fun/cool instead of laughable/ridiculous?
I'm actually rooting for her success now.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is like a megaexpensive version of that scam where people come up to you on the street and are like "you should be a model! heres my business card!" and then if you call back they try to charge you $50 for a photoshoot and pretend to be your agent― max, Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:47 PM (1 minute ago)
― max, Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:47 PM (1 minute ago)
5 million views for $2k? 2500 views for each $1 invested?
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
OBSCENELY even
― scott seward, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
you can't even get model portfolio head shots etc for 2 grand. from a real photographer. probably. i actually have no idea. but i'll bet you can't.
― scott seward, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
scott otm but 1/2 the internet is people who haven't been out in the world makin rent & whatnot & for whom 2000 bones might as well be a mansion & a yacht
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
$2000!!! Why sir, that is like 4 months of subsidized rent to my parents! QUITE a pretty penny...
― Threadkiller General (Viceroy), Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's Friday down here! I am going to listen to it and see if gets me in the "mood" for Friday.
― Ned Raggett Reads Autumn Almanac (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Having survived the wrath of Twitter nation, the teen is now profiting from the experience–although Kelly says her daughter’s first investments will be donations to Japan relief organizations and school arts programs."
BLACK BLASTS BACK: "AT LEAST I'M FUCKING TRYING! WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE!?"
― scott seward, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
sometimes I hate the internet
― in my world of suggest bans (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
a) Despite playing it, we is still only a little excited -- if it allb) I'm really going to sue that guy stealing my name
― Ned Raggett Reads Autumn Almanac (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
i really like the field rmx
― goole, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
I knew this obnoxious guy who not only went for this but then started telling all his friends that he was a model.
― iatee, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
I call BS on this all costing 2k.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
they charge me 2k every time I watch it, not quite sure what's going on
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
For now, at least, she is scheduled to do only limited media—granting interviews soon to both Good Morning America and On-Air With Ryan Seacrest. And Black’s plan going forward is to record an acoustic version of “Friday” to showcase her vocal range in a non-Auto-Tune environment.“I want to show people there’s more to me than they think,” said Black.
“I want to show people there’s more to me than they think,” said Black.
you know, an acoustic version of a monotone trainwreck usually results in an acoustic monotone trainwreck
although I get dibs on calling her "her generation's Sade" when this comes out
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
I call BS on this all costing 2k.― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:06 PM (1 minute ago)
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:06 PM (1 minute ago)
i think you're confusing the casting fee with the production costs.
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
but they didn't pay the production costs beyond 2k, did they?
― iatee, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
hahaha, it's hard to say...
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
Scotts "fun fun fun fun"/mussloini mashup is megalol
― lycanthrope electrif (Pashmina), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
at any rate I'd imagine getting 5 Million views in <1 week is probably a pretty good return
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
12+ million now!
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's a 'good return' but I don't think her parents were investing in their daughter to become a meme. I mean yeah, now she's famous, but so is the fat starwars lightsaber kid.
― iatee, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, it was 1 million on sunday, now it's over 12 million
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
should we start a pool on how many it will have tomor-row tomor-row fun fun fun fun
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
why does Dom & other foax think that Pato looks like Usher? clearly the dude looks more like Common doesn't he? or at least nothing at all like Usher....
― I may be wrong but I think his name is Husher (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
fat starwars kid isn't making $$ on iTunes.
― gr8080, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
That people are actually buying this in numbers is actually the most surprising part of this for me.
― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's solely because of the haircut and the fact that he's smirking
for most white ppl, "smirking black man with short fade" = "THAT MUST BE USHER"
also with the whole Bieber thing ppl are predisposed to make "Usher likes to hang around young kids" jokes, it's like dude saw a particular spin on the MJ void and decided to strike while the iron was hitting puberty
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
he looks WAY less like Common than Usher or anyone else that's been mentioned so far
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
anticipating a Pomplamousse directed Rebecca Black video.
― gr8080, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
sometime on sunday for me
― teledyldonix, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
i guess i just didn't want this weekend to eeeeeeeeend
Pato looks like Kenyon Martin.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
For me, it's always been both fun and ridiculous. I was never on-board with all the "worst song/video ever" talk, because if I find it amusing enough, then it's not exactly bad. But I do think that once the song was officially released as a single, then it became something worth rooting for, rather than just an Internet curio.
― Joseph Beuys II Men (jaymc), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
I kinda want to buy it, just to help propel it on the charts.
― gr8080, Thursday, March 17, 2011 3:15 PM (7 minutes ago)
he also made a private video that was put online without his permission, not a flashy music video that was made public with his total consent ... not really a great comparison overall
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
This doesn't really work but parts of it are mad:
http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DoIr8-f2OWhs&start1=&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Djqq3cgvZSTE&start2=0&authorName=zoot
― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
That's my place on it too. I've seen/heard plenty worse than this, but where I first got a kick out of making fun of it, I eventually began to appreciate its unifying silliness. xp to jaymc
I still think ARK are some creepers, though.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
― I may be wrong but I think his name is Husher (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Monday, March 14, 2011 2:31 PM (3 days ago)
― gr8080 sings the blues (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, March 14, 2011 2:56 PM (3 days ago)
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
it is still laughable/ridiculous
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
Overall, similar...but when you start comparing mouths and noses and eyes, it falls apart.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
I misread that as "The guest rapper looks like Garry Shandling." And, well, he sorta does.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
closer than Usher *sulks*
― I may be wrong but I think his name is Husher (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
he doesn't really look like anyone famous...?
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
why can't pato just be pato
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
i still say that depends on if you consider Maino famous
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm looking forward to her comeback album following her stint in rehab following her meteoric rise to stardom
― in my world of suggest bans (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Is Rebecca Black? I'm guessing that when you sign up to something like this the paperwork signs most of the profits to ARK, but...
Anyway I guess I'm rooting for her because my name is Rebecca, I found being 13 pretty traumatic, and she looks as blankly nervous and confused by the concept of "partying" as I was back then. (Ah, projection.)
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
― MPx4A, Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:53 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
Really it's more amazing than Friday, but it's so disturbing it can't catch on I guess.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Poor Pato.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
R-B, Rebecca BlackSo chillin’ in the front seat (In the front seat)In the back seat (In the back seat)I’m drivin’, cruisin’ (Yeah, yeah)Fast lanes, switchin’ lanesWit’ a car up on my side (Woo!)(C’mon) Passin’ by is a school bus in front of meMakes tick tock, tick tock, wanna screamCheck my time, it’s Friday, it’s a weekendWe gonna have fun, c’mon, c’mon, y’allThe unexamined life is not worth living.
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol i just figured out that this guy's name is really pato and you all weren't on some extended riff on our own king boy for the the whole thread
― goole, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
I just came to the harrowing realization that Rebecca Black, at age 13, has not ever known a world where Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake aren't famous. Not that it means much, but "Oops! I Did it Again" to her is like "More Than a Feeling" to me. :/
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Oops" is only 2 years older than she is.
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
xpost -- Well, yeah. That's how generations work.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
I got that mixed up, she is only 2 years older than "Oops" (the song, not Luna's ex-bf).
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh snap
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp - I know, but half of it is "she is so young" and the other half is "Britney and Justin have been around that long, but it doesn't seem like that long."
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
This article from last year about Ark prodigy Kaya is amusing:
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/doug_moe/article_6dcb6cf0-83d7-11df-a6f0-001cc4c002e0.html
Some percentage of haterade must stem from how Rebecca unintentionally has become a household name without that long struggle for recognition on the merits of talent, despite not being represented by a "high-powered entertainment law firm" - yet.
― Spectrist, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wit’ a car up on my side (Woo!)
^i heard "cop" for "car" (and thought the Woo! was supposed to be a siren)
― An adult guest rapper (donna rouge), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
i can't see how that works, unless the 'haters' are the people that are confused and think "Friday" is a normal hit song with the support of the music industry and are outraged that people sincerely like something so bad (xpost)
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
granted, there do seem to be a fair number of people with that misconception
this song still sucks and is unintentionally hilarious. i'm not rooting for Rebecca but not rooting against her either. in 3 days I'll have forgotten about this just like I did Pants on the Ground
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
this thread is over-excelsior'd but I want to show love to Shasta's "unexamined life" riff
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
Someone make a poll so we can decide who the second-best Ark Music artist is?
Or would CJ Fam walk away with it?
I kinda love "My Jeans" too.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
I would appear that from the comments on youtube and iTunes for the song and the "worst song ever written" in the press that, yes, much of the (young) audience is believing that this is being dished out to them by the music industry, one which decides what is good and who we shall make stars of. I mean I could be wrong but I have doubts any kind of fraction of those 13 whatever million views care about "outsider music".
― Spectrist, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
someone should loop the "fun fun fun fun" refrain and layer the rest of the vocal track over it "O Superman"-style
― corey, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm not rooting for Rebecca but not rooting against her either.
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Thursday, March 17, 2011 9:01 PM (9 minutes ago)
Totally - it's just this thing to behold. This magical, miserable diversion.
― Spectrist, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think the either/or of totally outraged gullibles and nerds who use the term "outsider music" is a bit of a false dichotomy that ignores a much larger third group
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
Stoners.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
or just take the vocals of o superman and put em to fun fun fun fun
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DCD2LRROpph0&start1=&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Djqq3cgvZSTE&start2=0&authorName=moebiussuibeom
close
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
o cerealo booooowwwwwwl
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
O Mom and Dad! (Thanks!)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
and when the front seat is gone, there's always the back seat
― An adult guest rapper (donna rouge), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
― prolego, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh man, I love the way the "fun" loop goes in and out of sync with the main song
brb, going to play it down the phone to steve reich
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
Here come the beatsThey're Ark Magic beatsMade in Ark Magic
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
They're American cars.Made in America.Front seat? Or backseat?
― Joseph Beuys II Men (jaymc), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
we need RB to do this next:
― scorpions on my nips and smear peanut butter on my ass (the table is the table), Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
look which seat should the martian take
― scorpions on my nips and smear peanut butter on my ass (the table is the table), Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0LqUS_1Lsk
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Djqq3cgvZSTE&start1=0&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D41CeLWbpxM0&start2=&authorName=ILX_PASH
― lycanthrope electrif (Pashmina), Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Thursday, 17 March 2011 23:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
alana lee's "butterflies" has been added to itunes (to all 2 of you who enjoy it)
only problem, it is listed as "butterflys." fail, ark music factory. fail.
― teledyldonix, Thursday, 17 March 2011 23:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh no I listened to the fun fun fun fun loop all is lost help
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 17 March 2011 23:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
~one of us~
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Thursday, 17 March 2011 23:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
I listened to the entire 2:17 without once feeling bored or wishing something else would happen. !!!
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 17 March 2011 23:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Note: I really like The Field.
I think the fun-fun loop is the only known cure for the Friday earworm.
― I may be wrong but I think his name is Husher (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 17 March 2011 23:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Butterflys
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 March 2011 23:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
Guys it's a certain time of day here in London
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 March 2011 23:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Five minutes to go, let's fucking do this
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Thursday, 17 March 2011 23:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
the fun-fun loop is the Friday earworm
― a murder rap to keep ya dancin, with a crime record like Keith Chegwin (snoball), Thursday, 17 March 2011 23:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
If you listen to it long enough, it sounds like she's singing 'pun pun pun pun'
― a murder rap to keep ya dancin, with a crime record like Keith Chegwin (snoball), Thursday, 17 March 2011 23:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
We we we so excited GMT
― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Friday, 18 March 2011 00:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
Fun Fun Fun vs Xenakis
http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Djqq3cgvZSTE&start1=0&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DyztoaNakKok&start2=&authorName=ILX_PASH
― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Friday, 18 March 2011 00:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^^this is amazing
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Friday, 18 March 2011 00:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
yessssssssssss
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Friday, 18 March 2011 00:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
FUN FUN FUN FUN vs Mr. Oizohttp://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Djqq3cgvZSTE&start1=0&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dd72wgT6swCA&start2=&authorName=ILX_snoball
― a murder rap to keep ya dancin, with a crime record like Keith Chegwin (snoball), Friday, 18 March 2011 00:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
in the youtube comments for the Friday slowed x5 version:
when I listen to this song I imagine a huge 300-foot-tall asthmatic satanic being standing with a bludgeoning weapon and poised to inflict death and destruction on a crystal city of mermaids, with the princess mermaid singing a song of redemption from the top of the tallest crystal tower, pleading for him to grant mercy on their mermaid children.1reallyhatethisplace 4 days ago 16
― accredited butter grader and dairy technologist (reddening), Friday, 18 March 2011 02:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg that fb prolego posted
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 March 2011 02:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
xenakis for the win!
― scott seward, Friday, 18 March 2011 02:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
― piscesx, Friday, 18 March 2011 03:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
seriously cannot stop listening to the slowbieber/fun fun fun loop - help.
― Roz, Friday, 18 March 2011 03:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li1x32v6rt1qa847jo1_r1_500.gif
― piscesx, Friday, 18 March 2011 03:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
omfg!!!
― sarahel, Friday, 18 March 2011 03:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
okay that is a masterpiece
― J0rdan S., Friday, 18 March 2011 03:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
one frame is missing.
― Roz, Friday, 18 March 2011 03:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Awesome!!!!
― VegemiteGrrl, Friday, 18 March 2011 03:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Did that for a couple of hours earlier -- it was (and is) amazing.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 March 2011 03:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
EST HERE WE GO
PARTYINGx2 YEAHFUNx4
ad infinitum
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 18 March 2011 04:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
YES YES YES YES
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 18 March 2011 04:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Fun Fun Fun x2 (sorry if it has been done)
http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Djqq3cgvZSTE&start1=0&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Djqq3cgvZSTE&start2=&authorName=skotrok
― Mark, Friday, 18 March 2011 04:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
put that shit out of sync imo
― loser beam (electricsound), Friday, 18 March 2011 04:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
fyi you are all insane
― gr8080, Friday, 18 March 2011 04:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
fyi you suck at fun
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 18 March 2011 04:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's the song.
Have you seen The Manchurian Candidate? A decade from now if someone says "fun fun fun fun" I'll execute some kind of preprogrammed command.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 18 March 2011 04:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm starting to hear bun fun bun fun bun fun after watching the loop too many times
― loser beam (electricsound), Friday, 18 March 2011 04:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
I showed Mr Veg the video...he made it up to the part about the bus stop before he reached over and closed my browser window. I was like, "But you didn't get to the chorus yet.". To which he replied "Just...no. NO." ;_;
― VegemiteGrrl, Friday, 18 March 2011 05:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
"It's Friday" - Rebecca Black
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Friday, 18 March 2011 05:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
i showed this to my housemate and he said, "any parent who paid for this is a fucking asshole." first sentence out of his mouth.
― bun fun times infinity (the table is the table), Friday, 18 March 2011 05:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
Inspired by:
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Friday, 18 March 2011 05:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
― plax (ico), Monday, March 14, 2011 7:54 PM (4 days ago)
Seriously.
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Friday, 18 March 2011 05:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
She'll get a reality show out of this at least.
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Friday, 18 March 2011 05:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ha I should have said
"It's Friday" - Rebecca Black - Michael Scott
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Friday, 18 March 2011 05:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
fyi guys
kickin in the back seat, sittin in the front seat, gotta make my mind up, which seat can I take?
― dayo, Friday, 18 March 2011 05:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
what i really want is...oh wait.
okay my hypothesis that this is absolutely amazing while watching bear porn was correct.
― bun fun times infinity (the table is the table), Friday, 18 March 2011 06:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
Is it just me or has this week been moving along so... unbearably... slow...
― Spectrist, Friday, 18 March 2011 06:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's all just a message about the apocalypse. do you have your bunker ready.
― bun fun times infinity (the table is the table), Friday, 18 March 2011 06:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Enid: God! How can you stand all these assholes?Rebecca: Some people are OK, but mostly I just feel like poisoning everybody.
― Spectrist, Friday, 18 March 2011 06:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
TGIF YOU GUYZES
― minsktrans.by (get bent), Friday, 18 March 2011 07:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
YESTERDAY IT WAS THURSDAY
TODAY IT IS FRIDAY
― prolego, Friday, 18 March 2011 07:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
WE WE WE SO EXCITED
― Threadkiller General (Viceroy), Friday, 18 March 2011 07:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
GOTTA GET DOWN TO THE BUS STOP, GOTTA CATCH MY BUS
― prolego, Friday, 18 March 2011 07:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's time to go to sleep when you compare the "which seat can i take?" dilemma with sophie's choice
― minsktrans.by (get bent), Friday, 18 March 2011 08:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg it's
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Friday, 18 March 2011 08:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
― teledyldonix, Friday, 18 March 2011 08:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
(about to go top 40 on us itunezzzz btw)
― teledyldonix, Friday, 18 March 2011 08:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
REBECCA BLACK SPEAKS
http://www.ocregister.com/video/?videoId=831495030001&play=now
― teledyldonix, Friday, 18 March 2011 08:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
I would actually appreciate it if we never hear from her ever again, we'll probably find out she's a boring and ordinary person and the mystique will be lost.
― dayo, Friday, 18 March 2011 08:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
thought her take on the Dempsey/Tunney long count fight was pretty solid tbh
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 18 March 2011 09:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
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― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 18 March 2011 09:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
What I want to know is if she'll be in school in 8 hours or if a sick day is the wisest way to get out of everyone singing this song at her in the corridors.
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 18 March 2011 09:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
I HAVE MY BOWLI HAVE CERE-OLE
I AM LISTENING TO "FRIDAY"
I I I SO EXCITED
― lex pretend, Friday, 18 March 2011 09:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
good god this is up to #47 on uk itunes and will surely only be boosted today
― lex pretend, Friday, 18 March 2011 09:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
I hate humanity
― Morty Maxwell (crüt), Friday, 18 March 2011 09:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
this song actually makes me love humanity for once
― lex pretend, Friday, 18 March 2011 09:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
nothing fills me with respect for humanity like a 13-year-old girl getting exploited and then ridiculed
― Morty Maxwell (crüt), Friday, 18 March 2011 10:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
and it's way less earwormy than "chocolate rain"
― Morty Maxwell (crüt), Friday, 18 March 2011 10:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah this tbh
― bad voise, it sucked, pick a seat (Trayce), Friday, 18 March 2011 10:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Djqq3cgvZSTE&start1=0&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DeRAy6lFCfOo&start2=0&authorName=snoball
― a murder rap to keep ya dancin, with a crime record like Keith Chegwin (snoball), Friday, 18 March 2011 11:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
gotta get down on friday
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 March 2011 11:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
so excited
― No more war/No more hate/Got my girl swag on/Got my girl swag on (seandalai), Friday, 18 March 2011 11:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
pretty certain this track was dropped into the background in the Vic in last nights episode of Eastenders.
― mark e, Friday, 18 March 2011 11:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
how was she exploited and by whom, exactly?
anyone know what time her Good Morning America performance is gonna be?
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 11:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
performance??
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 March 2011 11:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
Holy shit guys it's Friday Friday gotta get down it's Friday!
― Mordy, Friday, 18 March 2011 11:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
xpost -- it might just be an interview, but even so she's definitely on at some point.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 March 2011 11:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
the bateman gif is brilliant
― suggest and ban is my favourite combination (history mayne), Friday, 18 March 2011 11:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
Woulda thought Bateman would dismiss RB with the kind of contempt Geir Hongro reserves for Mos Def
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 March 2011 12:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
The OC Register interview says that by paying what they did she and her family kept the rights to the song, and that the money from sales generated is going to a combination of her savings, her school theater program and donations for Japan. As far as I'm concerned, let this thing be a legit hit!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 March 2011 12:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Damn she played that one right.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 March 2011 12:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
where can i watch this online in the uk?
― lex pretend, Friday, 18 March 2011 12:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
what, the today show?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 March 2011 12:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
she's on Good Morning America, not the Today Show fyi
i'm sure her appearance will be online within hours, i'm just home w/ the TV on so i'm trying to catch it
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 12:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
Purchased on iTunes. (I think I missed that iTunes files are now 256 kbps and DRM-free.)
― Joseph Beuys II Men (jaymc), Friday, 18 March 2011 12:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
how many have sold on itunes?
― iatee, Friday, 18 March 2011 12:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
right now GMA is featuring a performance by the cast of the Disney Channel's Shake It Up and the margin of quality between this song and "Friday" is not especially huge
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 12:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp They don't release the actual sales figures, but the song is now #31 on the iTunes top sellers chart.
― Joseph Beuys II Men (jaymc), Friday, 18 March 2011 12:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
For perspective, though: Katy Perry's "E.T." is #1 on Billboard's Digital Songs chart (which presumably tracks sales from iTunes and other online vendors) this week with 216,000 downloads sold.
― Joseph Beuys II Men (jaymc), Friday, 18 March 2011 12:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
when the hell is she supposed to be on gma? did i miss it? i have to go to work soon...
HAPPY FRIDAY THOUGH EVERYBODY!
― scott seward, Friday, 18 March 2011 12:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
GMA is over and i only watched the second half of the show here and there so i guess i missed it
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 12:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
OOPS
― scott seward, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
"It was a lot of work," Rebecca says of the 12-hour shoot. "I redid that first scene – '7 a.m. I'm waking up in the morning' – I probably had to do 30 times."
damn girl
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Here's a point-the-camera-at-the-TV video of the GMA segment:
― Joseph Beuys II Men (jaymc), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
can somebody faux liveblog that for people like me who are at work, thx
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Can't watch this right now, but "Worst video in the world? Thousands ridicule teen singer" isn't the most charitable lead-in...
― No more war/No more hate/Got my girl swag on/Got my girl swag on (seandalai), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
okay the part where she reads the negative youtube comments to her on-air, that's brutal
― dayo, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
is it too late to make her a wild card pick on this season of Idol?
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
she's totally going to meet Bieber after that interview and she's already talking to some of her favorite bands on Twitter, between that and the iTunes $$$ i really just can't feel sorry for her
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
IT'S FRIDAY
Fuck anyone who hates this song btw.
― Matt DC, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
76% say the attacks were justified
― herbal bert (herb albert), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
i mean even if she was a genuine pop star with a song people loved, there'd still be thousands of people saying horrible things about her in comments boxes, so if that's the biggest downside to this she's in pretty good shape
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
idk, she's 13, having hundreds of thousands of people online saying you fucking suck can't be good for the psyche, even if you get a pony in return
― dayo, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
a pop star gets thousands of people saying that she's great though. this girl is saying 'haters gonna hate' but there's nothing to balance the hate...besides a bieber visit
― dayo, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
and piles of money and ample opportunities to appear on TV on her terms, prove she can 'really sing' or that she can laugh at herself?
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm sure that there are plenty of people around her saying that she's great. Meanwhile all these people saying she's crap are mostly anonymous Internet trolls.
― a murder rap to keep ya dancin, with a crime record like Keith Chegwin (snoball), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
do you really think she is gonna get to appear on tv 'on her terms'? pretty much any program that is going to have her is going to acknowledge her infamy
― dayo, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Lots of love for her on this thread...they should read our posts out on TV.
― No more war/No more hate/Got my girl swag on/Got my girl swag on (seandalai), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
well obviously she can't go "introduce me as 'beloved pop sensation Rebecca Black'" but i mean she's pretty in-demand now so i imagine she can dictate the line of questioning to some extent (and probably had a lot to do with the GMA segment focusing on mean comments and 'cyberbullying'), and if she does a skit on SNL or a web redemption on Tosh.0 or something i imagine she'll have to approve of the bit and make sure it's something she thinks is funny and not just mean.
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
any manager/exec will tell her, rightly, that any road into fame or notoriety is good as long as it's not porn. if you end up having to play it for laughs, cool, your chances of making it "legitimately" were infinitesimal, now you get money. she'll get an ad deal (like tay zonday did) and will, worst case scenario, get a free ride through college. plus if she actually kept the rights to the song, whichever company her family sells it to for a commercial will pay a mint. the ascap or bmi from these nat'l tv appearances alone will be more than she was going to make this year for music anyway, it's all good in rebecca black's world so nobody should feel sorry for her.
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
you really think the rebecca black who starred in this video will suddenly be capable to rewrite snl skits? xp
― sonderangerbot, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
also, it would be pretty cool if it turned out she actually can sing
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
idk I feel if they live in the OC and her parents paid for this she's obviously not hurting for money and probably already has a trust fund? the real question is, did she want to become (in)famous with all that that entails.
― dayo, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
― sonderangerbot, Friday, March 18, 2011 9:33 AM (27 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
uh no but i'm pretty sure every celeb who goes on SNL or whatever gets to read the script first and decide whether they want to read the lines that were written for them (which = doing it on her own terms)
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'd guess she can, and I'm sure that's her play - record stuff that nobody was ever going to hear, now people will & the right marketing team will get it to an audience that will like it - even if "ironically," guess what ironic dollars buy the same groceries earnest ones do
xp dayo this cost 2k. 2k does not mean "they're rich."
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm looking at this more from the side of "she's 13 and not even in high school yet and basically anybody who wants to will be able to use this giant sledgehammer to insult and smash her self-esteem" just lookin out you know
money is not a palliative for everything, fame is not a unequivocal Good
― dayo, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
i said this upthread but she more deliberately courted fame and opened herself up to public opinion than 99% of people who become youtube memes, only reason i'm not 100% "yeah you knew what you were getting into" is that she's so young
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
while this is true, it's generally better to have money than not. your self-esteem is a good deal less smashable if you can say "whatever to my haters, enjoy wearing the same shoes all year" in high school
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
well yeah that's the whole point! she's so young. I made a lot of things when I was 13 that I was really really proud of and thought deserved recognition, looking back now I would be absolutely mortified had any of them actually did
― dayo, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, March 18, 2011 9:35 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
idk if a family feels they can blow 2k on a what is essentially a vanity music video instead of on, idk a SAT tutoring class or something, I'd say they were at least well off. I guess maybe the closest equivalent I can think of among people I know is a family that blows 2k on little league baseball uniforms for their kid? given where they live I'd say they are not hurting for money.
― dayo, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
would you have put a slick professional-looking video for a song you made at 13 on YouTube if you could've, though? i made some shitty demos when i was a teenager but i only played them for like 2 people.
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
like you can't release a song, especially with a video with 'professional' production values, and then say "ok guys say something nice or say nothing at all." everyone who puts themselves out like that at any level risks ridicule in hopes of praise. that's not a very harsh reality, that's the bare minimum tradeoff for any kind of creative endeavor.
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
hmm idk i could totally imagine them being like *really poor* and busting their asses to raise the money for a real shot at fame for their daughter, the only golden thing in their lives...
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm kind of amazed that this only cost 2K. recording, mastering, shooting, post-prod...?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
fyi, this is where they live
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaheim_Hills,_Anaheim,_California
Anaheim Hills had an average annual household income of $127,298 in 2006.
― dayo, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
probably doesn't cost that much once you already own the recording equipment and some cameras and green screen stuff. they probably paid for the overhead with their first few clients and now it's mostly profit.
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
idk its hi-def digital edited on a laptop. doubt there was many takes bc the vocals were bludgeoned into shape in post production. green screen is cheap.
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah the cost of production has dropped dramatically in the last few years hasn't it, this was probably made using iMovie or something
― dayo, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
OK fine, the pricetag is still amazing!
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think she seems able to poke fun at herself/the whole phenomenon though - i doubt she's under the impression that her song is anything other than throwaway and ridiculous - ie anything other than what it is.
― lex pretend, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, in a way Ark Music are kind of impressively cost-effective given that most of the problems wtih the video are aesthetic or creative -- imagine how much more it cost to make that new Britney video that looks like total dogshit
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
idk if a family feels they can blow 2k on a what is essentially a vanity music video instead of on, idk a SAT tutoring class or something,
lol fuck an sat tutoring class, get outta here with that shit!
per the oc register piece her parents are both veterinarians, i'm sure they're not hurting, but who really gives a fuck?
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah the interviews w/ her and her mom where they're kind of like "they offered 2 songs and this one suited me more" and "i didn't want to micromanage" kind of give the impression that they had no faith in the song but just didn't think it would matter. i don't know if she'd be taking this better or worse if she actually helped write it or really believed it was a good song and a good performance.
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
my gf and i just "blew" 2k on a vacation, are we rich?
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
did this 2k fella pay you for it or was it for fun?
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
anyway my heart kinda broke a little when the GMA lady asked her if she thought she had any talent and she said "well yes, on some level." I wish rebecca black the best and I hope that she will be able to lead a normal life if she chooses to.
― dayo, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp lol
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Who sends a 13-year-old to an SAT tutoring class? Just let them take the PSAT and see how they do; that's what jjj and I did (hilariously, we got the second- and third-highest scores in our school district).
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
PSAT tutoring classes exist! if you do well on them you get to be a national merit scholar or something.
― dayo, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
127k as an average income isn't even that high for a family dayo - rich people make millions
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
plus if anyone gives her shit she'll always have the comeback "my song is stuck in your head though"
― lex pretend, Friday, 18 March 2011 13:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
if you wanna move the goalposts fine - but I wouldn't say anybody whose family made 127k really 'needs' the money, unless they are a family of 10 or something xp
― dayo, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
look, sorry to get all cuddlestein about this and for spoiling your lols. all I'm saying is that she has, maybe a little wittingly and a little unwittingly, stumbled into a situation that is pretty abnormal & extraordinary for the average 13-year old, and I hope that it when the dust settles it will have been a net good for her life. that is all.
― dayo, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
who said they need the money? independent colleges in California are an average of 45k a year, college costs are a real thing dude! parents spend 18 years sweating how they're gonna deal w/that - a 2k gamble toward dealing with that eventuality is money well spent imo
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
well, if it works it's money well spent
if it doesn't, it's you being a dumbass with yr kid's future
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
two grand in american dollars for a song + video is a bargain
― suggest and ban is my favourite combination (history mayne), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
rather make a song than buy in to the bullshit that is the supplemental education industry.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^
― suggest and ban is my favourite combination (history mayne), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
awww my wife does some part-time work with an SAT prep company. not that she necessarily believes she's providing an important service that's above criticism, though.
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
if RB becomes a cautionary tale that makes a lot of other tweens and their parents think long and hard about going into showbiz unless they're really sure they have the talent, the material and the ability to tolerate haters, then she's probably making the world a better place.
lol cad I agree the supplemental education industry is worthless - however if you are all really trying to make this seem like her parents had their daughter's future prospects first and foremost in their minds when they wrote that check, I'm just pointing out that there are about a million things that would have been a better investment than a vanity song + music video
― dayo, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't think dayo is wrong to point out that all of this might be too much for a 13-year-old to handle but I think the way he's doing it misses a larger point; this may be too much for ANYONE to handle, regardless of age.
As has been pointed out by how she's handled her interviews, Rebecca herself seems very capable and smart; she is not coming across as someone who thought what she was doing was great art, rather as someone who was trying out something she really wanted to pursue that she knew wasn't super great who then watched it balloon out of control. The steps she and her family have taken (retaining rights to the song, setting up a college fund, setting up an arts fund, donating to Japan, using the backlash as a platform to speak about cyberbullying) have been uniformly excellent.
I am concerned about many things in this modern world but I'm not concerned about Rebecca Black. She'll figure out how to get through this.
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
Quite right.
When it comes to ridicule and exploitation and all, it'll be all the crazy parents and wannabe Ark Magics who will have seen this story, weighed up everything and thought "WE can do that!" and then wonder why it didn't work for them, whatever it might be.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha i'm not saying that at all! just that maybe this was a frivolous investment, but there's really nothing "objectionable" about it.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
do you guys have any idea how many powerball tickets they could have bought with $2000
― dayo, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
i kinda think the RB story is going to do the exact opposite TBH
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
And I mean -- the other amazing thing is not just how quickly this has become a thing, not merely all the many ways people are reacting to it, but that we're at a point technologically where, for instance, last night I was completely and happily lost in that YouTubeDoubler combination of the fun loop and slowBieber because it just plain worked, and that's the kind of happy accident that could never have happened until recent times anyway unless you had a lot of patience, your own home studio setup and knew about obscure vanity videos as well as pop hits.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
2000
they weren't looking to get rich quick, though, from what I can tell; they were looking to allow Rebecca to explore an interest
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Guys remember the part where HER PARENTS OWN A FUCKING AIRPORT?
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
if they are really rich enough to own an airport, then dropping $2k on this video is admirably parsimonious
― suggest and ban is my favourite combination (history mayne), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
pfft who doesn't own an airport
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
regular blue collar folks own airports all the time, remember the lady on northern exposure
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:25 (2 years ago) Permalink