"friday" was amazing
― dyl, Saturday, 26 September 2020 02:29 (three years ago) link
I'm so disappointed that no one (afaict) has ever done a mashup of Rebecca Black and Murray Saul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhqp0XL0lkA
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 November 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
Fun fun fun fun
10 years l8r... out 2nite at midnight @MsRebeccaBlack @bigfreedia @3OH3 prod. @dylanbrady pic.twitter.com/gNo9UWZy4w— DORIAN ELECTRA🗡My Agenda💿Out Now🎵 (@DORIANELECTRA) February 9, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 19:05 (three years ago) link
*checking the calendar*
what the FUCK
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 19:15 (three years ago) link
Friday (Remix) music video is here. directed by @westonallen64 + feat @DORIANELECTRA, @bigfreedia & @3OH3 https://t.co/RRKJaXwE72 pic.twitter.com/QDjDWQFO0D— Rebecca Black (@MsRebeccaBlack) February 10, 2021
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
this fuckin blows. you can't do "so bad it's good" if that was the entire intention
happy Friday y'all
― frogbs, Friday, 12 February 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
did she ever decide what seat 2 take
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 February 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link
Kinda obsessed, some sort of genius microtonal trolling? idk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sN7kgEw954
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 22 July 2021 23:21 (two years ago) link
SAY YOU LOVE SATAN
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 July 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
kinda sounds like buffy saint marie if she sat down in an office chair and spun around like 50+ times really fast and then had to sing this song
― Bongo Jongus, Friday, 23 July 2021 00:13 (two years ago) link
Omg rong thread
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 July 2021 00:16 (two years ago) link
marisa was a prophet
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 July 2021 00:16 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbOhYhZiyTI
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 July 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
she also has drone videos of herself doing yoga on a mountain
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 July 2021 00:19 (two years ago) link
This might legitimately be the worst singing I've ever heard. Like fascinatingly so.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 July 2021 01:38 (two years ago) link
What key is that vocal melody in? Q flat?
― frogbs, Friday, 23 July 2021 01:38 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kfVskTOsWw
― ufo, Friday, 23 July 2021 01:45 (two years ago) link
Man, her friends are assholes. You're really just gonna keep letting her do this and never tell her?
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 July 2021 01:55 (two years ago) link
whaaaaat
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 23 July 2021 02:20 (two years ago) link
📹
― KEEP HONKING -- I'M BOBOING (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 23 July 2021 02:43 (two years ago) link
Her phrasing is good!
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 23 July 2021 03:06 (two years ago) link
She's a puzzle
― Maresn3st, Friday, 23 July 2021 09:02 (two years ago) link
I cry hoax, she can actually sing but chooses to hit the wrong notes. Genuinely shit singers are more droningly flat.
― a cad, a bounder, a rotter, a really bad sort (Matt #2), Friday, 23 July 2021 09:04 (two years ago) link
i really love the bizarre camera work in the "red dress" video, those moments when it suddenly speeds up
― ufo, Friday, 23 July 2021 09:11 (two years ago) link
She's no Mark Gormley.
― pomenitul, Friday, 23 July 2021 09:33 (two years ago) link
She directed this too. That could be her main thing. But then again she took the trouble to put the song on Spotify. Her campus tour video is a liiittle bit goofy. But I can't really see anything that suggests she's joking with the singing. She's surely seen many comments that she's not good at it. I wonder if she'd want to hang out.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 23 July 2021 10:59 (two years ago) link
I get the same vibe from those melodyne derived Youtube videos where they knock the vocal melody of 'Africa' out by one semitone.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 23 July 2021 11:24 (two years ago) link
a little Spotify sleuthing turns up what appears to be her personal playlists, featuring, among many others.....that's right, gaz coombes. the mystery deepens
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Friday, 23 July 2021 11:37 (two years ago) link
I feel like I need a 20m Adam Neely video unpacking this.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 23 July 2021 11:39 (two years ago) link
Oh, I just realized what this reminds me of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNhhXmXQ_bY
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 July 2021 12:14 (two years ago) link
The chorus of Red Dress is a straight rip of something but I can't think what it is.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 23 July 2021 13:12 (two years ago) link
shotgun?
― calumerio, Friday, 23 July 2021 13:15 (two years ago) link
sounds like a lot of pop country choruses, maybe some "Wildest Dreams" in there
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 23 July 2021 13:35 (two years ago) link
Yes, it's Shotgun!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 23 July 2021 13:43 (two years ago) link
Thanks, Calumerio.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 23 July 2021 13:48 (two years ago) link
She's an MA student at Oxford who "conduct[ s ] quantitative research on the intersection of religion and politics": https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-brand-501595188/
The recording and engineering quality definitely suggests that digital pitch correction could have been applied if it was desired. My speculative hypothesis is she's not trolling but not lacking in self-awareness. She doesn't have singing chops but feels that shouldn't stop someone, out of a version of indie/punk-like aesthetic principles; all the online haters make her more resolved to do her thing and actually prove her message. She wants to make an anti-Christianity/pro-sex/anti-conformity statement and this kind of out-of-tune indie-country is what she sees as her innovation.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:33 (two years ago) link
I feel like if you asked her then she would say this is part of her singing style, like Kate Bush or sth
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link
That's my theory too, with the caveat that I don't believe she would be able to sing conventionally if she had to.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
Did IceJJFish turn out to be real or a joke in the end?
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:41 (two years ago) link
Why not put the instruments out-of-tune too, if she's trying to make that statement? Why not go fully atonal?
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 23 July 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
I mean, I'm just throwing darts but tbf this way of doing it does highlight the dissonance of her vs the group, which is also the message of the song.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:45 (two years ago) link
Cause she's making an uncanny-valley, gentle tweak to the conventions of the genre?
― Maresn3st, Friday, 23 July 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
Man, we should get on Linked In and invite her to the thread.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 23 July 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
Otherwise, she'd just be doing early Pavement.
Not saying I like it (although I didn't like Pavement either for a long time).xps
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link
is she Jandek's daughter?
― cajunsunday, Friday, 23 July 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv-cPY0Bel4
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:14 (two years ago) link
Devil fest
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
It's almost as if she's never heard singing before until someone described the act of singing to her and she decided to take a stab at it based upon that description.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
If this wasn't produced/presented the way it was, I think the response would be less bafflement and more praise. The YT algorithm showed me Wuthering Heights immediately afterword, and I think the algorithm is on to something.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
Obviously Kate Bush is a much better singer! Just to be clear
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link