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

Fam, I mean. I guess only exclusive members of the Ark Ent family get to know about the shed, now.

CJ's comments are still loaded with obvious plants going "fantastic voice!".

The faux-naivety ITT is like you guys have never seen "Tardy For The Party" or anything.

i have never seen 'tardy for the party' or anything

i saw something

but i couldnt make out what it was

some people here have probably not even heard Alana Lee's "Butterflies", and that makes me sad b/c it is a much better song than "Friday":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xHfRUW99aI

That video has been posted 3 or 4 times already.

tru, but some people here have probably not even heard it.

Or anything.

Fried egg, fried egg

Ive been going around singing "fried egg" since last night much to N's bemusement.

recently i have started interpreting the "which seat can i take?" as a direct question to the audience, asked the same way dora the explorer and the guy from blues clues ask their viewers where the tree/clue/whatever is

this entire thing is super creepy to me

did lol @ those lex posts ice craem reposted tho

"Fried egg, fried egg" reminds me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZpKdR76Y_U

Lex's analysis has made me realise that this song corresponds exactly to the picture of Kafka Judith Butler put forward the other week:

precisely because of this apparently objective and rigorous mode of writing, a certain horror opens up in the midst of the quotidian, perhaps also an unspeakable grief

some people here have probably not even heard Alana Lee's "Butterflies", and that makes me sad b/c it is a much better song than "Friday":

no it's also terrible just less memorably so

In 15 minutes, everyone will be famous.

no it's also terrible just less memorably so

says the man who provided the terribly memorable soundtrack to the terribly memorable moment in Armageddon where Ben Affleck makes animal crackers stampede across Liv Tyler's half-naked body.

(/cheap shot)

In 15 minutes, everyone will be famous.

― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:00 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

I missed it while watching Baseball Tonight :(

i like how the lyrics expose the inherent mundanity of stream-of-consciousness, it's like...the brain in repose

― lex pretend, Monday, March 14, 2011 7:43 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i am pretty sure i like it

― lex pretend, Monday, March 14, 2011 7:43 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fun
fun
fun
fun

― lex pretend, Monday, March 14, 2011 7:44 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this sequence of lex posts is slaying me

haa

28. One of the dudes is named John Benett Ramsey
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux))

LOL I noticed that too.

― one time, something happy craz (Trayce)

No he isn't.

where is his cape?

:D :D

"haa" @ cad btw

"this entire thing is super creepy to me"

ooh so creepy. more goofy than anything.

Man I am sad it's not actually John Bennett Ramsey

ooh so creepy. more goofy than anything.

― scott seward, Monday, March 14, 2011 9:58 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

idk stage parents embarrassing their teenaged children on a massive public stage is p gross

do you think their kids are embarrassed though!? if anything there will be a hundred more kids knocking down this company's door. 2 million youtube views! all the snarky comments in the world won't deter them. look at snookie!

Yeah but its 2m people laughing at her :/

you guys, this video is extreme lol

well duh!

"Yeah but its 2m people laughing at her :/"

even more than that laughing at snookie! i don't really think the negative matter to people anymore.

matters

my friend P3tey on FB just now: "I have now seen the video. HORRIFIC.
Her friends all look like they are in a serious amount of pain."

the terrible overdubs at the end

I seriously cannot deal, they are too lol

I like what scott's saying on this thread

I have to admit as a long time fan of things like Y. Bhekhirst and Ken DeFeudis, it's been interesting what the internet has done to the idea of 'outsider music' -- technically incompetent but completely earnest and slightly strange songs suddenly finding a huge mainstream audience. the second repetition in the chorus of 'Friday' totally hits my nervous system, something totally genuine about it (even though it's the same performance cut and pasted for every chorus)

and I know these gifs are meant as mocking but face it the longer you look at them -- behold ACTUAL 13 YEAR OLD GIRLS looking completely awkward on camera -- if this is the way things are going, this is 9000x better than kesha or katy perry or any of that straight up bullshit that I've seen grown people on this board make an argument for that is absolutely, inarguably confusing and poisoning the landscape for other actual 13 year old girls

things like "Hot In The Airport" will never make 2.5 million hits in two days, I know this is something different, but it's the same lineage and it's a hell of a lot more interesting to me than most of the stuff usually taking up space on new answers

I mean it is interesting -- the lineage is less true complete-outsiders like Ken DeFeudis and more the dial-a-song poem people as mentioned upthread. I know this is a factory, not true expressive wellspring, and I think the people saying 'creepy' are more responding to the factory aspect of it. But I like that too, the factory aspect is more laid bare here than ever before, if you find this creepy it completely exposes all the other factory pop you've ever let yourself like, and I like that too

you don't get to 2.5 million hits by accident, this isn't just 'oh wow this is the worst', this is recognition

Yeah, I agree with all that.

this song immediately reminded me of dahv, whose time i guess has passed now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSr5l19Xnmo

Milton - has anyone autotuned Florence Foster Jenkins?

I think she also makes for an interesting comparison. The problem I have with this in terms of previous outsider music, is that a lot of the charms of the historical stuff is its earnestness, but how "earnest" can you be, or be perceived, with autotune? Like it's too polished to really have that aesthetic.

why does she only sing the second syllable on weekend most of the time

Maybe it's just me but does the yellow BUS STOP sign move just a teeny bit around when she says "stop", like right before the edit?

how many times have you watched this, Stevie?

Honestly? Maybe 15

48. The background "Friday, Friday" paired with impassioned hair-stroke at 3:17-3:18

49. when all the other kids are either waving or pumping their fists, there's one person in the front right corner of the crowd who is either making devil horns or pointing at RB as if to say, "this girl! this girl!"

I can dig the earnestness of this kind of stuff. I can dig the honesty. But just being earnest and honest isn't enough. I mean, Bright Eyes is earnest and honest. It still sucks.

50. Revelation of CHILD ENDANGERMENT! (when "rapper" owns up to being lapped, in the fast lane, by a school bus)