Top 100 moments in Rebecca Black's "Friday" music video

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

She should change her name to Rebecca Black Friday, or maybe just Black Friday.

― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:31 (2 years ago) Permalink

1. omg
2. ...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

the comments!

― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 16:42 (7 months ago) Permalink

i mean it's seven total pages of that!

― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 16:43 (7 months ago) Permalink

For DJP's own protection do not let him in this thread or let him see that link.

― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 16:47 (7 months ago) Permalink

Gnesa - "Wilder"

betta reckanize

― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 16:48 (7 months ago) Permalink

26 pages! Comments have to be a joke or just written by a bored-at-work street-team drone, right???

Please, for the love of god. Make more!

Christopher Redding 23 hours ago

I like the part where she goes "la la la la laaa la la laa la laaa".

alemmingsdeath 1 day ago

This song has granted me an everlasting erection that will not be contained by clothing for the rest of my life

FishWash 18 hours ago

i love the close up on her face

greencable 18 hours ago

― fish frosch (seandalai), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 17:00 (7 months ago) Permalink

i think she's moderating the comments and erasing all the negative ones? you can do that right?

― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 17:03 (7 months ago) Permalink

She's still found 250+ "people" to post positive comments though.

― fish frosch (seandalai), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 17:11 (7 months ago) Permalink

i am so sorry, djp

― there is no dana, only (goole), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 17:13 (7 months ago) Permalink

Comments are obviously jokes like the ones you get for ridiculous products on amazon. It is just for fun. Anyone who thinks there might be a street team behind this is nuts.

― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:42 (7 months ago) Permalink

Yeah you're right. I just liked the idea of one of these crap vanity video operations having a stoner teenage temp in the corner handling "Web 2.0 Strategy".

― fish frosch (seandalai), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:07 (7 months ago) Permalink

wow J-Lo really sounds terrible without autotune

― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:10 (7 months ago) Permalink

that beat + close up is sort of terror

― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:18 (7 months ago) Permalink

FRIDAY FRIDAY GOTTA GET DOWN ON FRIDAY

thank god for friday

― Mordy, Friday, 19 October 2012 13:36 (7 months ago) Permalink

did we talk about this yet?

― Mordy, Friday, 19 October 2012 14:08 (7 months ago) Permalink

Sets the bar low for karaoke, that's for sure.xpost

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 October 2012 14:08 (7 months ago) Permalink

"Friday" was/is actually catchy and fascinating and was joyously stuck in my head for two weeks. All of the obvious copycats trying to recapture the magic are predictably failing hugely.

― billstevejim, Friday, 26 October 2012 07:27 (6 months ago) Permalink

FAST LANES, SWITCHING LANES ON THANKSGIVING

― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 10 November 2012 15:31 (6 months ago) Permalink

The assassination occured on a Friday and when he was shot the Secret Service yelled at Jackie Kennedy to “get down” (got to get down on Friday). Parts about the cold war and the spread of Communism are referenced (everybody’s Russian). The assassination occured on a Friday and when he was shot the Secret Service yelled at Jackie Kennedy to “get down” (got to get down on Friday). Parts about the cold war and the spread of Communism are referenced (everybody’s Russian). The assassination occured on a Friday and when he was shot the Secret Service yelled at Jackie Kennedy to “get down” (got to get down on Friday). Parts about the cold war and the spread of Communism are referenced (everybody’s Russian). The assassination occured on a Friday and when he was shot the Secret Service yelled at Jackie Kennedy to “get down” (got to get down on Friday). Parts about the cold war and the spread of Communism are referenced (everybody’s Russian). The assassination occured on a Friday and when he was shot the Secret Service yelled at Jackie Kennedy to “get down” (got to get down on Friday). Parts about the cold war and the spread of Communism are referenced (everybody’s Russian). The assassination occured on a Friday and when he was shot the Secret Service yelled at Jackie Kennedy to “get down” (got to get down on Friday). Parts about the cold war and the spread of Communism are referenced (everybody’s Russian). The assassination occured on a Friday and when he was shot the Secret Service yelled at Jackie Kennedy to “get down” (got to get down on Friday). Parts about the cold war and the spread of Communism are referenced (everybody’s Russian).

― suggest butt (Pillbox), Saturday, 10 November 2012 16:59 (6 months ago) Permalink

"Nothing is forbidden" - Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

― nickn, Saturday, 10 November 2012 17:54 (6 months ago) Permalink

lol @ that sad little turkey

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, 10 November 2012 18:07 (6 months ago) Permalink

tbh you probably don't need a very big turkey if there's only one adult at your dinner and he's eating ribs

― a man d'Balmer (some dude), Saturday, 10 November 2012 19:15 (6 months ago) Permalink

tiny turkey : it's thanksgiving :: no school bus : friday

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, 10 November 2012 20:45 (6 months ago) Permalink

IT'S THANKSGIVING: Ark Music strikes again

― Huey Lewisies & The Newsie-Wewsies (snoball), Saturday, 10 November 2012 20:47 (6 months ago) Permalink

btw:

As the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of November 22, 1963, Shift Team #3, Kellerman was riding in the front passenger seat of the presidential limousine. The driver was Secret Service Agent William Greer. Like all Secret Service agents assigned to protect the President of the United States, Kellerman was trained to use his own body as a shield, taking a bullet if necessary in the line of duty.

No "Samuel Kickin" in the front seat, ok?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 11:09 (6 months ago) Permalink

...and Lincoln had a secretary named Pato

― Binders Full of Mittens (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 11:39 (6 months ago) Permalink