22. Shading the girl on her left by singing "my friend is by my right".
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
23. The puzzling omission of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
― Mark, Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought this was real until it got to the bridge
― Whiney On The Goon (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
A dramatic reading of Rebecca Black’s “Friday”
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
what does "real" mean in this context?
― Mark, Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^^^^^
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhzhamfLq01qfqhot.jpg
<3
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Personally I'm all about this, but I would be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1M5Q3onsX4
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
^ this is probably better than anything Kevin Shields might ever deign to release
― corey, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
She should change her name to Rebecca Black Friday, or maybe just Black Friday.
― Mark, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Hard to beat this one as far as passionate delivery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EdUUMdcUYU
― Mark, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
The happy hardcore version resulting here rules:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cazsLHi9fI
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
"Yesterday was Thirsty, Thirsty/Today it's Fried Eggs, Fried Eggs"
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/bnkcX.jpg
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
1. omg2. ...how does this thing manage to be an actual earworm >:(
― lex pretend, Sunday, 13 March 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li0qg2OhIb1qi1tuao1_500.png
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 March 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
This is quickly becoming my favourite moment:
http://i55.tinypic.com/50npdi.jpg
― prolego, Monday, 14 March 2011 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
There's an explanation here:
http://www.bohemian.com/citysound/?p=7181
― Mark, Monday, 14 March 2011 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
makes me think of
http://sharetv.org/images/guide/350642.jpg
― one time, something happy craz (Trayce), Monday, 14 March 2011 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i think i had a fit watching this.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Monday, 14 March 2011 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
so hilair
― plax (ico), Monday, 14 March 2011 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
GIT'ING DOWN ON FRIDAY
― Not the real Village People, Monday, 14 March 2011 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
:/
― BLOOMPS 2012 (rip van wanko), Monday, 14 March 2011 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
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:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xHfRUW99aI&
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, 14 March 2011 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
They just gave it an official remix, striking while the iron is hot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnL0Mtkv5UU
― Mark, Monday, 14 March 2011 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, these guys fucking suck
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 14 March 2011 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
a million views
― dead perez (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 14 March 2011 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i like this one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_GwMeD0X3I&feature=related
― scott seward, Monday, 14 March 2011 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a smart idea. star camp for girls. they do a pretty good job.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 March 2011 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder what they charge.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 March 2011 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I looked on their website earlier and saw nothing
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 14 March 2011 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
the other thing is she wrote the song, and there are definitely people that can mimic other people's songs, but can't actually tell that what they're writing doesn't fit the key they're in. also people who aren't used to using melisma and don't have a good ear often melisma into Allan Holdsworth territory
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
FYI: This is the holiday classic "It's Thanksgiving" by Nicole Westbrook, produced by the same "music factory" as Rebecca Black's "Friday" https://t.co/mEFM93NWbC— Sam Gavin (@samgavinLA) November 24, 2022
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Thursday, 24 November 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link
Thanksgiving in the back seatThanksgiving in the front seat
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 November 2022 23:14 (one year ago) link
"Nothing is fo-bidden" Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
And I like how she covers other holidays.
― nickn, Thursday, 24 November 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link
I like how she sings into the turkey leg toward the end. (Why does the song only mention turkey and mashed potatoes? Seems like there are a lot of other dishes that could’ve been name-checked…)
― "Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Thursday, 24 November 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link
I don't get no respect.
Thanksgiving music?
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 November 2022 23:35 (one year ago) link
We definitely talked about “It’s Thanksgiving”, I think on this thread years ago
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 25 November 2022 00:58 (one year ago) link
I scrolled up and lolled again at “My family owns an airport there”
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Friday, 25 November 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link
i do always revisit "it's thanksgiving". a classic
― dyl, Friday, 25 November 2022 14:44 (one year ago) link
It’s the time of year when everyone has rubs smelling up their cribs
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 25 November 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
Did dude take down the song where he said “they call me fat fat fat fat Usher”
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 25 November 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
i hope so, that was so embarrassing
― dyl, Saturday, 26 November 2022 03:38 (one year ago) link
RIP CJ Fam
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, 26 November 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
in the end you just can't autotune the pain of a dying child.
― sarahell, Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
[citation needed]
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 05:59 (one year ago) link
i was 13 this man is 36 https://t.co/a7Hxtaxi9W— Rebecca Black (@MsRebeccaBlack) January 6, 2023
― the shaker intro bit the shaker outro in the tail, hard (breastcrawl), Saturday, 7 January 2023 19:55 (one year ago) link
Not a hot tip I was expecting to drop, but Rebecca's new album Let Her Burn (great title) is really, really, fun. Feels like she and her people have listened intently to all of the moderately adventurous female-fronted pop music of the last few years, and then set out to pay tribute to as much of it as possible in (an admirably focused) thirty minutes. So while the lead single sounds like Midnights meets Ariana Grande other than a pseudo-industrial breakdown near the end, there is also a 2-step garage track, a track that gestures towards hyperpop, a lesbian love song that is basically a rewrite of The 1975's "Somebody Else", a song that sounds like The Strokes by way of Olivia Rodrigo, and a (charmingl) imagining of Poppy making drum and bass track appropriately titled "Destroy Me", which is worth linking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qA23jMionY
I also enjoy Rebecca's switches between unvarnished talky and breathy high vocals, very familiar in this post Camilla Cabello world, but still very successful I think.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 13:32 (one year ago) link
I forgot to mention there's a track that sounds like Phoebe Bridgers, because of there is.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 13:33 (one year ago) link
lmao 'destroy me' has almost the same 'whoa!' sounds as Smack My Bitch Up :D (they're 'hey' here i think but same effect)
― imago, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 13:43 (one year ago) link
I think it’s actually a “Firestarter” reference? But yes absolutely, and that little trick feels like a meme I have heard across a bunch of recent tunes pop and otherwise.
(To cross-pollinate current threads, “Us Ephemeral” uses “Go!” in the same way)
― Tim F, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 13:50 (one year ago) link
to continue that cross-pollination, if big beat is truly coming back, that is one nostalgia i will not stand in the way of
― imago, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link