The most compelling thing for me is the look of panic that intermittently flashes across her face, as if she realises the futility of her brief fame even before it happens.
Top PR work by Ark Entertainment though.
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li2ey5tGfw1qgsk1po1_250.gif
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
so were the other kids in the video actually her friends, or were they just paid to be her friends?
― sarahel, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
holy shit
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
OMG the gifs
― one time, something happy craz (Trayce), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i just feel sorry for her.
― sarahel, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
her daytime car friends look p overwhelmed by life, not incl. the enthusiastic backseat beckoner pictured above.
― plax (ico), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Its like a professional version of those insta-studios you can go to, karaoke it up in front of a greenscreen and then burn it to CD.
― le grenouille mange le pomplamousse (Trayce), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
do you think she'd cry if she read this thread?
― sarahel, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, but only because today is monday
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
45. That not only is Rebecca Black's school bus stop designated with a large, diamond-shaped yellow sign, like you would see for a curve in the road or a lane merge, it was 'shopped in for fear that we'd think she was just a LOSER loitering by herself on the sidewalk. Just in case we didn't hear her talking about the BUS TWICE in the lyrics.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
guys i still have this stuck in my head
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
worse than even that, i think i'm beginning to like it.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i like how the lyrics expose the inherent mundanity of stream-of-consciousness, it's like...the brain in repose
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Interview them all for a Guardian piece, Lex.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i am pretty sure i like it
fun funfunfun
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm pretty impressed that she craves a "bowl" before even having breakfast, that is hardcore
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait why's she still asking which seat to take once she's already in the damn back seat cruisin down the green-screen way?
― le grenouille mange le pomplamousse (Trayce), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
You'll all be surprised when this places #1 on the 2011 EOY poll.
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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well she got stuck with back middle which sucks, shoulda called shotgun
― what do it take to be a legend like noz is? (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
46. how her singing is so monotonous and staccato that it sounds like someone typing morse code with a telegraph machine
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
47. the fucking seizure-inducing mirror image of herself during WE SO SO SO EXCITED. it's like her molecules are reaching escape velocity and peeling off into a mirror version of herself which will go on to star in "Saturday"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
do you think she eats cereal on Saturday, too?
― sarahel, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link
in the entire breakfast section she doesn't blink once, just the fixed stare and a monotone about cereal. capturing the true essence of all our mornings.
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh - i drink coffee in the morning and blink a lot.
― sarahel, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
cant wait for her ep of super sweet sixteen
― plax (ico), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
the girl in the jeans video is better, i think.
― sarahel, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
48. How her smile gets even smilier when she sings "I see my friends!"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i55.tinypic.com/30avti8.jpg
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
THERE IS ONLY ONE FREE SEAT
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
GOD
yeah the jeans video one is so hamming it up and like into it, this girl just seems like she was going w/ it. idk arent spoiled rich thirteen yr olds all supposed to be doing coke and having sex parties in their parents summer house or something? when i was that age nobody would have been lame enough to think this fake hanna montana shit was a vaguely acceptable thing to do but maybe thats just bc my friends were all awesome and cool
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
she just reminds me of the kind of girl that would audition for a community theater play and sing "A Little Fall of Rain" from Les Miz, but would get confused and kinda break down when the accompanist plays the song in a different key from the one she practiced in.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
^
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
the jeans video girl would totally get a part in any community theater production of Annie.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
there was an mtv show that basically did exactly this btw
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
omg the jeans video
HA HA HA JACK MY SWAG
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
okay wait no it didnt but it had a similar element of vanity and pointlessness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEtwh2esRaw
p impressed at this girls mastering of the dance move that me and my sister once spent like an hour trying to figure out and couldnt
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
lol "enhanced cd"
unless these guys aren't just rich-parent-hustlers but creepy pedos (that one "5 days with CJ Fam" video has the camera following CJ and her little friend into an abandoned shed in the woods for some reason), they should totally exploit this net buzz for their own MTV series.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
also holy shit no one's posted the CJ Fam video yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oVnBGRIZSQ
It's about a small child who could maybe get a callback for Annie on Broadway wrestling with the price of fame
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:15 (thirteen years ago) link
"I'm not a diva, I'm sooo real and sooo down to earth."
crepeing all the way to the bank
― deej, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I was at a recording studio that gets a lot of big-paycheck clients, big place with multiple studios, and while we were there in like the C studio over in D was the daughter of a guy who owns this massive company whose products I have enjoyed since I was a child. They had 1) hired some of the people who write hits for Britney etc and 2) hired a vocal coach and 3) hired musicians to a) write a record for their daughter b) teach her to sing it and c) track it, at full studio rates. they were there for a week working all day on something that will never see the light of day, just indulging their idea that enough money & successful people could make their daughter a pop diva.
this made me lol really hard
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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lmao otm
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:22 (thirteen years ago) link
lol cj fams producers flamboyant displays of weve got a hit on our hands
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link
hey were there for a week working all day on something that will never see the light of day, just indulging their idea that enough money & successful people could make their daughter a pop diva.
Have you heard the tapes?!
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Let me explain to him in simple arithmetic. One, two three! Because you don't fuckin' get it, Burt! You give us the tapes. We get the record contract. We come back and give you your fuckin' money. Have you heard the tapes? Have you even heard them? We're guaranteed a record deal. Our stuff is that good!
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link
For serious it is interesting how the Ark model is different from the old vanity stuff. You have autotune, which makes it really easy to make a talentless singer sound catchy and tuneful, and you have youtube, which makes the distribution costs nothing. So you can record high production value vanity shit for people, charge them a lot of money, and then put it out there easily, and if it takes off, more money for you, if not, no big deal.
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link