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

I wonder if both cultural norms, and the fact that higher-pitched voices have more prominence to the ear, conspire to make this more of an issue for female singers

yes. and see also genre -- listen to Camaraderie's reverb version --

this sounds more like the average karaoke rendition of a song than anything to me.

my ex sang like this

key hint is how she sometimes does wind up in key through pure chance.

this sounds more like the average karaoke rendition of a song than anything to me.

yeah, where the person is singing at/near the top of her range (or psychologically induced range), as opposed to nearer the middle where the singer will feel more confident/comfortable to sing a wider range of notes

Would be totally willing to read and compare microtonal transcriptions:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyyrqCC5vw0

xps

like this was the main aesthetic similarity between this and Rebecca Black -- the one note-ness -- though Brand's voice is capable of more overtones and expressiveness so she sings variants (or microtones as you will) of the same one.

Sorry, first link was meant to start at 12:15, second at 4:34.xp

yeah, where the person is singing at/near the top of her range (or psychologically induced range), as opposed to nearer the middle where the singer will feel more confident/comfortable to sing a wider range of notes

― sarahell, Sunday, July 25, 2021 2:20 PM bookmarkflaglink

yeah with my ex it was always Celine Dion, when she should have been singing alto-y country.

Ozzy sounded way worse than Brand on his last two tours w/ Sabbath btw. like...way....way....worse.

do you miss her?

almost like "I'm used to this song in its former key but the band lowered the key to help me, but i'm still singing it in the original key" bad

xpost I don't miss the Celine Dion

Scott Weiland was having a lot of trouble when I saw him play a few months before his death, he was missing notes that weren't even especially high in his range.

I would definitely rather listen to Sarah Brand than Ian Brown, the worst live singer I've ever seen by some considerable distance.

(because graceful self-delusion, if that's what it is, will forever trump graceless misplaced arrogance)

people are taking this seriously huh

just wait for the EOYs

she could also work on her enunciation ... I didn't really understand what she was saying half the time ... maybe it's just me being old

no that was my first reaction even before the pitch. I'm like "is this mumblecountry"?

Yeah, I couldn't make any of it out before I read the lyrics.

you actually read the lyrics?!

They're right there in the video description.

I've clearly been thinking too much about it. Reading the lyrics was basic level.

Feels like a lot of people itt investing way too much thought into this terrible song and terrible singer. Y'all really want a new Farrah Abraham that badly, huh?

I will give her this much: as awful as the song + singer are, the cumulative 45 seconds or so that I've heard of this (once for myself, once for my gf who probably noped out quicker than I did) have lodged themselves very firmly in my head.

"Fantasy" is good!

Red Dress with an actual singer is a good song

Loathed the Farrah Abraham, but I wouldn’t mind a new Laurel Halo - the unadorned pitchiness of Quarantine was a thing of great beauty.

Gordon Haskell was kinda pitchy on this one, to the surprise of no one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNhfdZe5njk

the lyrics of this are very very bad btw

i do like "fluffennamp timebaschwain fennehsquaf" thought that was a good line

xpost Why do u judge in disgust

brilliant video moment with the cutaway on "letting someone else steer" to a red cow

They're right there in the video description.

― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, July 26, 2021 10:09 AM (three hours ago)

tl;dr

I like the ii to II modulation in the chorus, that's what sticks in my head.

This is kind of like the time Wes Bentley tearfully engaged with the beauty of a plastic shopping bag caught in an updraft

oh thank god, I thought I maybe was patient zero for a new variant with COVID ears symptoms

oh thank god, I thought I maybe was patient zero for a new variant with COVID ears symptoms

oh thank god, I thought I maybe was patient zero for a new variant with COVID ears symptoms

This is the funniest fucking thing

I only sent that once

oh thank god, I thought I maybe was patient zero for a new variant with COVID triple vision symptoms

Microtonal vision is a thing.

lol xp

Lyrics on this are also really, impressively bad. I vote calculated effort to go viral. And good on her.

The only thing about this that even hints at calculation is that I'd think an Oxford grad student would generally have a better notion of how words go together.

her thesis is on five dimensional chess

Which could it be:

Calculated avant-garde exercise or wealthy person without self-awareness or talent

Hmm, we'll never know.

I can't imagine another board with people trying to do the required mental gymnastics to turn the latter into the former though. Sometimes bad is just bad.

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