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

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)

i woke up with this song stuck in my head for the second day running and nothing else i try to listen to feels adequate ;_;

man that ark music factory page is so fucked up -- shit looks like a cross b/w a child porn site and an escort service

I FEEL A LAWSUIT COMIN' ON

How dare they destroy a well-respected brand like "King Boy Pato", seriously.

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

lol yeah i'm reading herta müller's the passport atm and it ALL FITS

btw when i went downstairs this morning the words "gotta have my bowl gotta have cere-owl" sprang unbidden to my lips

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

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:28 (4 hours ago)

totes

i thought it was 'just a bad song' for the first min or so

kid has an endearingly unaffected manner, and one imagines a preponderance of 'you be the youtube star' competitions in which ordinary tweens compete (or more hopefully, are randomly selected) for a $20k autotune + greenscreen makeover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsocXXe1KSw

compare / contrast with these retards

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

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:32 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

christ

fucking ilm

yeah i'm more in the "2.5 million lols" camp myself.

why does it offend you? xp

"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"

just seems a retarded comment to me

if you can't get a solid lol out of this, sans popist wank, then i don't even

ya but you probably got trolled by 'dogville' too

not like foregrounding of artifice (willingly or otherwise) began in 2k11

you guys wouldn't be laughing if I'd made the awesome music video that I imagined in my head in middle school. I think it involved me lipsyncing the song IN SPACE.

90% of the lols are from the video, 10% lyrics

if you can't get a solid wank out of this, sans popist lols, then i don't even

:D

not like foregrounding of artifice (willingly or otherwise) began in 2k11

yes... this is why milton's comment caused me great eye-rollage. and even then this isn't foregrounding artifice, it's just a badly made video that is funny.

FRIDAY
FRIDAY

IT'S IN YOUR HEAD ADMIT IT

if you can't get a solid wank out of this, sans popist lols, then i don't even

― Morty Maxwell (crüt), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 10:11 (1 minute ago)

surprising lack of lecherous comments in the youtube

ppl keep telling me I dance like the car friend girl :(

ouch.

when i woke this morning my first thought was OH GREAT ANOTHER GRIM DAY OF CATASTROPHICALLY SPIRALLING SELF-REFLECTION, and then my next was FRA-EE-DAY, FRA-EE-DAY, and then my next was :).

51. when her friends open their mouths, the demonic voice of Zuul issues forth like a black contagion to infest the ears of non-believers

52. token asian makes me feel I too could be a part of this scene

53. definitely proves the "we the best" theorem as laid out by dj khaled: verbs are mere window dressing in the english language

WE SO EXCITED

FRIDAY
FRIDAY

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:13 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

IT'S IN YOUR HEAD ADMIT IT

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:13 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

I watched like 1/2 of it yesterday morning and yet somehow found myself humming it as I walked to get some coffee just now. WTF.

also, what the fuck is this new video editing effect where you strobe the image at a 45 degree slant on the left side of the image, and only the left side of the image

I thought Tracer was doing some ungodly Rebecca Black/Cranberries mashup for a second

And I love pink top girl. My awkward ass 13 year old braces wearing self would have got down with her.

53. rebecca's house gives me fond memories of when the mccallisters packed for france at the last minute

54. the lyric "sunday come afterwards" is the giveaway that this is actually the latest pinnacle of po-mo - "sunday comes after words", or after words, sunday, the end of the week, traditionally seen as God's rest day, God...the Word... after... words...

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li0cask0ny1qdmb7jo1_400.png

oh no

I am going to hell for laughing at that

omg