best part is 0:45-0:50. love the awkwardness
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Bad idea, Ark.
They just removed the original video from youtube and closed that account.
I assume they're upgrading or something, but that was a piece of internet history!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, March 29, 2011 7:24 PM (44 minutes ago)
removed what video? I don't get it.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Well it's back now. hm
An hour ago, it said the video had been deleted by the user (trizzy66) and the user's account was inactive.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
shady dealings, it sounds like.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
did anyone mention that "Friday" debuted at #72 on the real Billboard Hot 100 this week? last week it placed on Billboard's digital chart, but it didn't seem real back then, it seemed like a dream.
also sometime tonight it beat "Chocolate Rain"s view count. a part of me wants to cheer her on, but another part of me feels so bad for Tay Zonday. in the modern era, I bet he would've ripped that shit up on the pop charts.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:14 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark
I think youtube is just having issues atm. My subscriptions page is down, most videos say that "safety mode" is hiding the comments etc.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Meantime:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/03/patrice-wilson-of-ark-music-friday-is-on-his-mind.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Raised in Africa by a minister mother and a chemical engineer father, Wilson sang in his mother's church as a child and helped out with youth programs at the local Christian school. Later, he says, he attended medical school in Europe and trained in track and field events for the 2000 Olympics. But he dropped it all in pursuit of his music, an endeavor that would lead him to tour as a backup singer with Eastern European pop star Ibrahim Maiga, to study the business side of entertainment at Whitman College in Walla Walla, and, finally, to come to Hollywood.“If you're going to try to make a dream in music happen, Los Angeles is where you need to be,” he says. “If your music is heard in America, it will be heard everywhere.”
“If you're going to try to make a dream in music happen, Los Angeles is where you need to be,” he says. “If your music is heard in America, it will be heard everywhere.”
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
yup. i thought it would be a one-week wonder chart-wise, but actually the song is likely to go even higher on the hot 100 this week. the song made another rapid ascent up the itunes sales charts this past friday and actually peaked higher than it had the previous week. i'm not sure whether the surge in sales had more to do with the recent tv promotion (jay leno and such) or simply the fact that it was friday, lol
― teledyldonix, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link
It's at #62 on the UK chart at the moment.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 09:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Wake me when Gang Fight cracks the charts
― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Only played it twice so far, but I'm finding "Friday" pretty catchy in an annoying sort of way. I'll definitely give it a third listen, at least, and maybe more depending how my opinion evolves.
(And yeah, I like "Gang Fight" better too.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Forward into the future!
http://popdust.com/2011/03/30/rebecca-black-new-single-album/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
"I call them negative Nancies."^will totally cosign this as a replacement for "haters"Nancies Gonna Neg
― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
New song LOL is in a similar vein, with the chorus, "BFF you make me LOL", meaning best friend forever you make me laugh out loud.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/3492349/Bullies-hurt-me-and-I-cried-Im-only-13-But-now-Im-working-on-an-album-to-prove-them-wrong.html
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
that url is a masterpiece.
OMG @ THAT URL
― mink della reese (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
URL you make me LOL
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
so the track sold 50k in america this past week
http://www.billboard.com/news/chris-brown-nets-first-no-1-album-on-billboard-1005100762.story
For those wondering if Rebecca Black's "Friday" moment in the sun has passed -- it hasn't. The tune rises 57-38 on Digital Songs with 50,000 sold (up 35%).
― teledyldonix, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://media.photobucket.com/image/nancy%20comic/MannBear/Nancy.jpg
― Anti-mist K-Lo (Phil D.), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
ZS get on this stat
― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
it's no "IM me" by brittney cleary!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ke0w8n
― electric milquetoast (get bent), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
oh oh I think I'm having a nostalgia attack. that fucking song!
brb
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psF0xsdfJso
― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
or better yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr5QTUYiL3M
Hey, is this song getting radio play?
― James Woods, Hysterical Realism (Eazy), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think ark music factory has enough money for payola
― electric milquetoast (get bent), Thursday, 31 March 2011 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
according to a Billboard article linked upthread "Friday" got virtually no radio spins (12, to be exact) the first week it sold a ton of downloads, don't know if that changed at all in the past week: Top 100 moments in Rebecca Black's "Friday" music video
― some dude, Thursday, 31 March 2011 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I bet it's getting play at least on morning-zoo shows, for lols.
― discursive gatorade (Eazy), Thursday, 31 March 2011 04:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I think those 12 spins are referring to the entire song getting played without annoying radio dudes laughing over it.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 31 March 2011 05:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Her next song is called "LOL."
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
― billstevejim, Thursday, 31 March 2011 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
― billstevejim, Thursday, 31 March 2011 05:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I know that was posted already!
― billstevejim, Thursday, 31 March 2011 06:00 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7H12V97ZOI
― Not the real Village People, Thursday, 31 March 2011 06:01 (thirteen years ago) link
They will be doing the song an injustice to invest more than $2000 into the next video.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 31 March 2011 06:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Friday's much-mocked lyrics include the teenage dilemma of where to sit in a convertible car with your friends on the drive to school.
No, that's what the video is about.. The lyrics are about the schoolbus.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 31 March 2011 06:05 (thirteen years ago) link
You know, for a long time I thought BFF was some sort of acronym for "Friend with Benefits"
You can imagine what I thought Paris Hilton's eventual prize on offer was for that TV show.
― Mark G, Thursday, 31 March 2011 09:11 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsPrE4NCnA4
Forgive me for waving my nerd flag but DOCTOR THADDEUS VENTURE recites Friday!!!!!!!
:D
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 31 March 2011 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Neil Young is next
― Mark G, Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/379370/march-30-2011/stephen-practices-rebecca-black-s--friday-
― Roz, Friday, 1 April 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I just saw "Gang Fight" for the first time, lol
― whelping at his sandpapery best (DJP), Friday, 1 April 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://chamberlain.tumblr.com/post/4261579724/chambaland-friday-up-dmx-vs-rebecca-black
― da croupier, Friday, 1 April 2011 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
― billstevejim, Thursday, March 31, 2011 2:05 AM (Yesterday)
Is there a distinct front seat and back seat on a bus?
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Friday, 1 April 2011 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
on the short bus
― whelping at his sandpapery best (DJP), Friday, 1 April 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
fyi I feel terrible about that joke
― whelping at his sandpapery best (DJP), Friday, 1 April 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
But she says "gotta catch my bus I see my friends" not "gotta catch the convertible car I see my friends"
This is important.
― billstevejim, Friday, 1 April 2011 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
It's HER bus. For all we know it's a minivan
― VegemiteGrrl, Friday, 1 April 2011 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
DRAMAhttp://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-rebecca-black-fighting-ark-music-factory-over-friday-20110401
It didn't take long for everyone involved in the Rebecca Black story to start squabbling. Black – whose song "Friday" hit Number 38 on Billboard's digital singles chart this week – and her mother, Georgina Marquez Kelly, are accusing Ark Music Factory, which produced "Friday," of copyright infringement and unlawful exploitation of publicity rights.
A March 29 letter from Black and Marquez Kelly's lawyer Brian Schall to Ark Music Factory obtained by Rolling Stone alleges that Ark has failed to provide Black with the master recordings of her song and video; has been exploiting her likeness and her song on YouTube, iTunes, Amazon and Ark's website; created an unauthorized "Friday" ringtone; and has been advertising Black as an exclusive Ark recording artist on its website.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Ark Music Factory founder Patrice Wilson denied most of the allegations in the letter. "I have met with Rebecca Black's mom and everything is fine," he said. "She will get the masters and the song. They can have it all."
Marquez Kelly paid Ark $4,000 (not $2,000, as has been widely reported) to produce the song, and according to Schall's letter, the agreement that she signed with Ark in November stipulates that Black has 100 percent ownership and control of "Friday," including the master recording and the music video.
Black shot the video for "Friday" in January, and the Ark team finished it a few weeks later. It was uploaded to YouTube on February 10th, but it only had around 4,000 views until it was posted on comedian Daniel Tosh's Tosh.O Comedy Central blog on March 11th, and comedian Michael J. Nelson tweeted about it. Overnight, it had gotten over 200,000 views, and by March 15th, it had over five million views on YouTube. And after her Good Morning America appearance on March 18th, she had evolved from a meme to a celebrity.
"She's not our exclusive artist," said Wilson. "Once an artist meets with us and once they blow up, they have a choice to retain us or move on if they can. Rebecca is now signed with someone else." Wilson added that he will remove Black from the Ark Music Factory website.
But Ark's lawyer, Barry Rothman, cast doubt on the validity of the November agreement. "The agreement was not court-approved," Rothman said. "They say they own the composition. Nothing could be further from the truth. If they go forward and license it or attempt to copyright it in their name, that would be copyright infringement and we'd act accordingly under the circumstances."
He added: "We're not prepared to engage them in producing documents just because they want them, without a court order or litigation. We'd like to see Rebecca Black's career go forward and we're trying to accomplish that in the context of working through the legalities."
Wilson's Ark Music Factory partner Clarence Jey contended that Ark did act as a record label for Black, and distributed and promoted her with her mother's consent – until it became clear that Black was going to make actual money.
"Now they are turning it around and saying they were exploited, but clearly that is not the case when they were thanking me for forwarding them all the interviews with Rebecca and all the positive comments from YouTube," said Jey. "I was calling Australia on my cell phone pretending to be Rebecca's agent and setting up radio interviews for Rebecca while Georgina was right next to me. If she thought I was exploiting this, she could have said it."
"Georgina's trying to get the rights to things she doesn't have the rights to," said Ark Creative Director Barry Wayne.
Neither Marquez Kelly nor Schall returned calls for comment.
Black is the first real success to come out of the Los Angeles-based Ark, whose website was registered in August 2010 by Wilson. Ark's biggest successes other than Black are the singer Alana Lee Hamilton's "Butterflies," which has close to six million YouTube views, and Kaya Rosenthal's "Can't Get You Out of My Mind," which has 1.7 million YouTube views.
"Suddenly, everyone is seeing big dollars and everyone is getting greedy and it sucks," said Jey, who claims that his team wrote the music and lyrics to "Friday." "My team just needs to be looked after to some extent. They need to be compensated for something." He argued that Black should own the master recording for her vocals, but that Ark should have copyright for the song and composition. "We gave Rebecca 10 percent of the publishing, but she didn't even write a lyric. Good Morning America came over, I paid $400 for the make up artist and no one even thanked me for that."
And now it seems as though Ark's success may be its undoing. Wilson recently hired his own lawyer, and Jey alleges that Wilson won't give him access to the website. "Yesterday we were supposed to have a meeting at my attorney's place. I didn't hear from him all day. He sent me a text message late at night saying, 'Sorry, brother, I've had a busy day.' In the meantime he's going around saying I'm not with Ark."
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 1 April 2011 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
now that's the American way
― whelping at his sandpapery best (DJP), Friday, 1 April 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
― billstevejim, Friday, April 1, 2011 2:22 PM (36 minutes ago)
I figured she meant to catch the bus, but her friends intercepted her, and now she has a front seat back seat decision to make.
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Friday, 1 April 2011 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link