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

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

i like this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_GwMeD0X3I&feature=related

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.

it's a smart idea. star camp for girls. they do a pretty good job.

i wonder what they charge.

Yeah, I looked on their website earlier and saw nothing

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/

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.

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.

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.

28. One of the dudes is named John Benett Ramsey

LOL I noticed that too.

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 13:26 (Yesterday)

This is cracking me up.

She is trending worldwide.

I just hope she never realises she's trending in about the same way Tommy Wiseau has.

Well every one of these tweets is negative... Maybe she can't read.

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