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

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

†† ℜΞBΞCC▲ B\▲CK ††

― lex pretend, Thursday, March 17, 2011 4:59 PM (2 hours ago)

Fℜ†D▲Y

― lex pretend, Thursday, March 17, 2011 5:00 PM (2 hours ago)

lmfao PLEASE let there be a witch house remix!

omg is she really going to be on good morning america?

SO MUCH FOR THE OBCENELY RICH SPOILED PARENT BRAT SCENARIO.

i mean 2 grand is 2 grand but its not like the end of the world or anything. i'd say it was cheap.

Okay, straw poll...

At what point this week (if at all) did you make the switch into thinking this whole thing is kind of fun/cool instead of laughable/ridiculous?

I'm actually rooting for her success now.

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

― max, Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:47 PM (1 minute ago)

5 million views for $2k? 2500 views for each $1 invested?

OBSCENELY even

you can't even get model portfolio head shots etc for 2 grand. from a real photographer. probably. i actually have no idea. but i'll bet you can't.

scott otm but 1/2 the internet is people who haven't been out in the world makin rent & whatnot & for whom 2000 bones might as well be a mansion & a yacht

$2000!!! Why sir, that is like 4 months of subsidized rent to my parents! QUITE a pretty penny...

It's Friday down here! I am going to listen to it and see if gets me in the "mood" for Friday.

"Having survived the wrath of Twitter nation, the teen is now profiting from the experience–although Kelly says her daughter’s first investments will be donations to Japan relief organizations and school arts programs."

BLACK BLASTS BACK: "AT LEAST I'M FUCKING TRYING! WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE!?"

sometimes I hate the internet

a) Despite playing it, we is still only a little excited -- if it all
b) I'm really going to sue that guy stealing my name

i really like the field rmx

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
― max, Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:47 PM (1 minute ago)

I knew this obnoxious guy who not only went for this but then started telling all his friends that he was a model.

I call BS on this all costing 2k.

they charge me 2k every time I watch it, not quite sure what's going on

For now, at least, she is scheduled to do only limited media—granting interviews soon to both Good Morning America and On-Air With Ryan Seacrest. And Black’s plan going forward is to record an acoustic version of “Friday” to showcase her vocal range in a non-Auto-Tune environment.

“I want to show people there’s more to me than they think,” said Black.

you know, an acoustic version of a monotone trainwreck usually results in an acoustic monotone trainwreck

although I get dibs on calling her "her generation's Sade" when this comes out

I call BS on this all costing 2k.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:06 PM (1 minute ago)

i think you're confusing the casting fee with the production costs.

but they didn't pay the production costs beyond 2k, did they?

hahaha, it's hard to say...

Scotts "fun fun fun fun"/mussloini mashup is megalol

at any rate I'd imagine getting 5 Million views in <1 week is probably a pretty good return

12+ million now!

it's a 'good return' but I don't think her parents were investing in their daughter to become a meme. I mean yeah, now she's famous, but so is the fat starwars lightsaber kid.

yeah, it was 1 million on sunday, now it's over 12 million

should we start a pool on how many it will have tomor-row tomor-row fun fun fun fun

why does Dom & other foax think that Pato looks like Usher? clearly the dude looks more like Common doesn't he? or at least nothing at all like Usher....

fat starwars kid isn't making $$ on iTunes.

That people are actually buying this in numbers is actually the most surprising part of this for me.

why does Dom & other foax think that Pato looks like Usher? clearly the dude looks more like Common doesn't he? or at least nothing at all like Usher....

it's solely because of the haircut and the fact that he's smirking

for most white ppl, "smirking black man with short fade" = "THAT MUST BE USHER"

also with the whole Bieber thing ppl are predisposed to make "Usher likes to hang around young kids" jokes, it's like dude saw a particular spin on the MJ void and decided to strike while the iron was hitting puberty

he looks WAY less like Common than Usher or anyone else that's been mentioned so far

anticipating a Pomplamousse directed Rebecca Black video.

At what point this week (if at all) did you make the switch into thinking this whole thing is kind of fun/cool instead of laughable/ridiculous?

sometime on sunday for me