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

xp essentially

I'm late to the party on this whole thing, but is Ark Music Factory like the 2011 version of those 'Song Poem' records? You know, "we'll set your lyrics to music, just send us money?"

― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:40 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

my old housemates had a business doing this for a while

man aero how many horses are even left in yr barn???

gbx, great screen name. I'll research new one stat...

her voice is just funny because it's monotone and slightly worried, like she is nervous about screwing up and this nervousness/the song's general ridiculousness is getting in the way of her connecting to it at all; she is singing the same way you dance when you're hauled on stage during dinner at Uncle Billy's Restaurant in scenic Hilo, Hawaii to learn and dance the Hukilau while everyone laughs and takes pictures of you, which is basically exactly what is happening, except it's happening with an incongruous budget and on youtube

ke$ha is awesome and not remotely like this at all but we don't need to go into that

I know I flog the hell outta that phrase

you might say I'm flogging a

well you get the general idea

I feel kinda bad for her tbh, imagine if that fake pop song you recorded in your bedroom when you were 12 was all of a sudden being parodied by 5 million ppl and perpetua was calling you non-charismatic

didn't someone do a record/project releasing these Song Poems years after the fact?

perpetua was calling you non-charismatic

pretty sure even a 13-year-old can get the irony here

I feel kinda bad for her tbh, imagine if that fake pop song you recorded in your bedroom when you were 12 was all of a sudden being parodied by 5 million ppl and perpetua was calling you non-charismatic

hueg lol

gbx, great screen name. I'll research new one stat...

― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:44 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark

haha, no worries, entirely possible i poached it?? the whole song is potential display names imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOqn-I5u1MY

xp to sarahel

i just really want to know if the other kids in that video were her real friends or not.

i think i was emotionally scarred by "You Can't Do That On Television" where one of the girls on the show is told that all the other kids were paid by her parents to be her friends, and she doesn't have any real friends. Most of this was due to people in grade school telling me I kinda looked like that girl.

"the world's most generic modern pop song"

I HAVE A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH THIS

actual modern pop songs really don't use this narrating-everything-as-you-go lyrical style? as anyone who actually listens to pop music would know? jesus, perpetua.

ke$ha is awesome and not remotely like this at all but we don't need to go into that

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:44 (1 minute ago)

that shit is the worst, like beyond the guetta principle in terms of 2k10s aesthetic vileness

awkward tween singing silly naive song about the end of the school week having meme fame accidentally foisted upon her vs relentlessly ugly frat hedonist retard anthems

you're not supposed to say that!!!

you didn't need to go into that

xpost to self:

like if it was a series of generic statements about being in a club: fine, yeah, modern pop.

but this 'now i'm doing this, now i'm doing that, making a statement of fact' super banal stuff is actually more reminiscent of the first robin sparkles song on HIMYM than actual charting pop music.

no, someone just got yelled at about an hour ago for calling someone retarded.

not reading 'that thread' (assuming....)

xp again i'm not gonna do this because what's the point, but without getting into actual value judgments i'd just say that like 65% of the joke with "friday" comes from how stilted and robotic she sounds, like she's just barely clinging to this weird edifice that's been built for her, whereas ke$ha does not sound like that, because she's throwing herself into her relentlessly ugly frat hedonist retard anthems and giggling and preening and doing weird voices and affecting deliberately obnoxious vowel sounds and this is like literally the opposite of what is going on with "friday". that's all.

'now i'm doing this, now i'm doing that, making a statement of fact'

read this in rebecca black's voice — actual lols

ke$ha is also an adult whose junk boys want to touch.

i'm guessing some of the <3 apologists itt have for this track is because, as tweens or former tweens, they empathize with the simple joy of the school week finishing

don't forget according to iatee's recent poll, many ilx users are actually 13

xxp
okay I'm at the club, yeah goin' to the club
gotta get boys, have 'em touch me on my junk
ordering drinks, gosh look at all these drinks
have to pick a drink, and then I'll get drunk

(also everything c sharp major is saying about the lyrics to this not actually being anything like any actual pop at all is otm, that is why it is so funny)

except the "fun fun fun" part - pretty sure that's been in a pop song before

but this 'now i'm doing this, now i'm doing that, making a statement of fact' super banal stuff

'Cause you're hot then you're cold
You're yes then you're no
You're in then you're out
You're up then you're down
You're wrong when it's right
It's black and it's white
We fight, we break up
We kiss, we make up

yeah, but that is about "~feelings~" not eating a bowl of cereal

that is a structured description of contrasting abstract states that happen over the course of a relationship

vs an unstructured list of physical things happening in the order that they are happening

like again that is the opposite of "friday"

had a 30 second search but couldn't find anything for

thread for random crit theory bloggers discussing pop music

would appresh if any relevant material is posted there

itt a lot of special pleading

This list is a lot different from that list because of because

she's totally ditching in that video, right?

i guess there are some similarities between this song and Beastie Boys' "Fight for Your Right to Party"

i think ppl calling this a 'typical' pop lyrics are probably using "Party in the USA" as a reference point, and it's true, this is kind of like an artless version of

Jumped in the cab, here I am for the first time
Look to my right, and I see the Hollywood sign
[...]
I'm noddin' my head like yeah
Movin' my hips like yeah

xpost also "a hard rain's a-gonna fall"

ibut this 'now i'm doing this, now i'm doing that, making a statement of fact' super banal stuff

trapped in the closet, minus sex, conflict and midgets.

but this 'now i'm doing this, now i'm doing that, making a statement of fact' super banal stuff is actually more reminiscent of the first robin sparkles song on HIMYM than actual charting pop music.

r kelly does the "now I'm doing this" thing all day

I mean I'm not trying to equate Rebecca Black and Ke$ha or whomever as performers and difficult listening hour is correct in re: their dedication to their performances, but when it comes to the, eh, I don't know, songwriting values? we're into some narcissism of small differences territory here, big time.

in 5 yrs we will look back on this girl as the 'star wars kid' of the 2010s

narcissism of small differences = equating a 13 year old girl with an adult woman? Pretty sure Chris Hansen would have something to say about that.

That's not what I'm doing. At all. I'm talking about the songs qua songs, not the performers behind them.

I get up when I want, except on Wednesday's, when I get rudely awakened by the dustman. I have a cup of tea, out my trousers on, and think about leaving the house. Fun fun fun fun.

when it comes to the, eh, I don't know, songwriting values? we're into some narcissism of small differences territory here, big time.

get this even if i don't agree, doubt either of us would benefit from arguing it.

in this case, how easy is it to separate the song from the performer though?

and the subject matter of the songs are different -- ke$ha's are adult in nature.

xp what are you, william butler yeats?