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

even as young as she is, she was waaaay more aware that her likeness was going to be beamed out to the internet for admiration or ridicule than the overwhelming majority of youtube superstars

xp - Yeah but that's kind of unlikely to work out for her.

i mean think of all the people we've laughed at who thought they were making a home movie or public access show that would be seen by 10 people, or who didn't even know there was a camera on them at the time

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It's probably already worked out better than she expected. The rest is gravy.

i think what will bear her psyche up in these go-go days of meme overload is the thought that "there is something about me that seems to hook people, even if the song IS bad" and i don't think she'd be wrong

"also ILX likes me"

hmmm,needs some work, but this could be addictive:

http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Djqq3cgvZSTE%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded&start1=&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4gnTXlzITqk%26feature%3Drelated&start2=&authorName=skotrok#

Oh dear.

Am I the only one that sees a contemporary parallel to the whole song-poem "Beat of the Traps" MSR sort of pay someone to record your song scheme? I mean, clearly RB brought her own lyrics. Right? I hope?

Scott, I am almost 100% certain someone released that on Wax Trax! in 1988.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LygC-phaJQ

xp- Couple of song-poem comparisons upthread, but I think it's been established that the music and lyrics were composed holistically by Ark.

really like the busta/fun-fun loop mashup. like a lot

guys we need to talk more about how its FRIEDAY FRIEDAY GOTTA GET DOWN ON FRIEDAY

oooh oooh where do I go to make fun of a 13 year old girl

right here!

her pained warbling at the beginning and weird pronunciation reminds me of the Cranberries

xxxxp janet jackson's chorus doesn't really mesh well with the fun fun loop, but when it's just busta rapping over it, it's a crazy new sort of greatness...

attention DJP and scott (if you are unaware of these people):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_Network

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dh0iEkDEkU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w67DUjx7q0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKdjU7xfVDM

guys i don't want this to ever not be the top of new answers

her pained warbling at the beginning and weird pronunciation reminds me of the Cranberries

That's it! I couldn't figure out what it reminded me of, other than the Swedish Chef. Someone really should replace "fun fun fun fun" with "bork bork bork bork."

haha YES

there's a bit of yarl in there, a weird lineage that stretches from pearl jam through the cranberries, backtracks through nickelback, takes an unexpected detour through rihanna and pops out here

Dom Passantino for Vice Magazine:
http://www.viceland.com/wp/2011/03/life-after-rebecca-black/

mobb black

http://youtubedoubler.com/S6qX

that "human breakdown of absurdity" song-poem is so damn good

vice editor: "who can we get to make fun of 13 year old girls and possibly mention porn at the same time"

entire staff: "send up the dom signal"

ugh

Meme potential: Very, very low. She wears one of those tiny hats at an angle that fat middle class women wear on hen nights, and Fat Usher rolls up rocking a short-sleeved hoodie.

fatfatfattiefatfattasticfap

35. Autotune moment #2: the tortured-robot scream at ~2:52.

Yes. That is stunningly great.

With a couple of ILX quotes for good measure, my take on it all:

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2011/03/local_record_review_friday_by.php

Ned tell me the truth does your editor force "Frankenstein's monster" or is that you

just curious not hating or anything

nicely done, Ned!

That was all me having to use something to say up against an unavoidable deadline and not necessarily being happy with everything I wrote. (I remember being irritated with it as I typed it but then I saw the clock again and had to live with it.)

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li7f1nCVym1qznilfo1_500.png

LOL

She's probably making major career plans right now!

She's probably dealing with stares during passing period between PE and Social Studies right now.

A piece of pop culture couldn’t have been more made for Tumblr than “Friday” if Jared Leto started tattooing Sylvia Plath quotes onto his cat.

what does this even mean

Jared Leto started tattooing Sylvia Plath quotes onto his cat.

...with a topless woman from 1977 in the background.

my favorite thing about this thread is whenever i refresh it bumps back to the "we so excited" pie chart.

there's a bit of yarl in there, a weird lineage that stretches from pearl jam through the cranberries, backtracks through nickelback, takes an unexpected detour through rihanna and pops out here

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, March 17, 2011 2:09 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there's a whole bizarre history of white girls choosing to sing like this for some reason. I blame Canada (specifically Alanis and Avril).

You could probably go further back to Moon Unit Zappa tbqh.

Ned, you should have used my entire quote!

Believe me, I was tempted.

Meanwhile, interview!

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-17/rebecca-black-friday-and-cyberbullying/

At press time, the song was number 54 on the iTunes charts, ahead of Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Ke$ha.

But most of the feedback for the video involved questions like why are 13 year olds driving? Or why are they being followed by an adult rapper? Or is this a joke?

http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Rebecca-Blacks-YouTube-sensation-Friday-tops-iTune-charts/8018975

& from the interview Ned posted, clearing up some of the rich kid questions

Acing a casting-call audition, Black was invited to record one of two songs label heads had written for her. And, as part of a $2,000 package her mother paid for, they offered to produce an accompanying video in a bid to make a splash on YouTube. The song she picked: “Friday.”

“I didn’t write it at all,” Black said, clearing up a major misconception.

Acing a casting-call audition, Black was invited to record one of two songs label heads had written for her. And, as part of a $2,000 package her mother paid for,

this is like a megaexpensive version of that scam where people come up to you on the street and are like "you should be a model! heres my business card!" and then if you call back they try to charge you $50 for a photoshoot and pretend to be your agent