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

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.

20. Underage driving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DwT_2QQU64

There does come a point when it's slightly creepy. 2:25 is solid gold though.

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."

21. Not wearing seatbelts because it could get in the way of "FUN FUN FUN".

22. Shading the girl on her left by singing "my friend is by my right".

23. The puzzling omission of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

i thought this was real until it got to the bridge

A dramatic reading of Rebecca Black’s “Friday”

what does "real" mean in this context?

^^^^^^^^

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhzhamfLq01qfqhot.jpg

<3

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.

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!"

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...?"

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.

Pick a parody/reinterpretation, any parody/reinterpretation:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rebecca+black+friday&aq=f

Personally I'm all about this, but I would be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1M5Q3onsX4

^ this is probably better than anything Kevin Shields might ever deign to release

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

Hard to beat this one as far as passionate delivery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EdUUMdcUYU

25. How she can get up at 07:00 and still straighten her hair in time for school.

The happy hardcore version resulting here rules:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cazsLHi9fI

"Yesterday was Thirsty, Thirsty/Today it's Fried Eggs, Fried Eggs"

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

http://i.imgur.com/bnkcX.jpg

1. omg
2. ...how does this thing manage to be an actual earworm >:(

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.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li0qg2OhIb1qi1tuao1_500.png

This is quickly becoming my favourite moment:

http://i55.tinypic.com/50npdi.jpg

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.

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?

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

There's an explanation here:

http://www.bohemian.com/citysound/?p=7181

Oh god that horrible nasal autotuned voice why did I click on this

makes me think of

http://sharetv.org/images/guide/350642.jpg

i think i had a fit watching this.

so hilair

27. multiple neon-lit space needles going by in the background on the highway shot

GIT'ING DOWN ON FRIDAY

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).

:/

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&

They just gave it an official remix, striking while the iron is hot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnL0Mtkv5UU

"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.

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.

Yeah, these guys fucking suck

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.

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."

Also by the time next Friday actually happens most of us will have moved onto something more substantial.

a million views

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

Thanksgiving in the back seat
Thanksgiving in the front seat

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

And I like how she covers other holidays.

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…)

I don't get no respect.

Thanksgiving music?

We definitely talked about “It’s Thanksgiving”, I think on this thread years ago

I scrolled up and lolled again at “My family owns an airport there”

i do always revisit "it's thanksgiving". a classic

It’s the time of year when everyone has rubs smelling up their cribs

Did dude take down the song where he said “they call me fat fat fat fat Usher”

i hope so, that was so embarrassing

RIP CJ Fam

in the end you just can't autotune the pain of a dying child.

[citation needed]

i was 13 this man is 36 https://t.co/a7Hxtaxi9W

— Rebecca Black (@MsRebeccaBlack) January 6, 2023

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.

I forgot to mention there's a track that sounds like Phoebe Bridgers, because of there is.

lmao 'destroy me' has almost the same 'whoa!' sounds as Smack My Bitch Up :D (they're 'hey' here i think but same effect)

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)

to continue that cross-pollination, if big beat is truly coming back, that is one nostalgia i will not stand in the way of

If you showed me this now I'd think it was AI generated.

it's definitely got that AI quality where if you're not paying particularly close attention it seems pretty normal, but the more you focus on it the weirder it gets

Rebecca Black playing a Friday x 360 mashup at her Boiler Room set. pic.twitter.com/W6JjMO7Quw

— xcxshake (@xcxshake) September 17, 2024

awesome

looks like everyone is having fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun

oh shit look what day it is