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

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?

like dumb songs about getting wasted and getting laid have a qualitative difference than a dumb song about a pre-teen eating cereal and waiting for the bus.

get up, get out of bed
drag a comb across my head
made my way downstairs and drank a cup
looking up, i noticed i was late
grabbed my coat, grabbed my hat
gotta get down to the bus stop
gotta catch the bus
'cuz its FRI-EEE-DAY, FRI-EEE-DAY

also has anyone considered the possibility that if this girl 'sounds like' ke$ha it's because maybe she LIKES ke$ha and was trying to emulate her? "gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal" is kinda like a crude 13-year-old approximation of "wake up in the morning feelin' like p.diddy", right?

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

But it's not like this is the Numa Numa guy in his bedroom, RB has to some degree signed up to "being a pop star" with whatever promotion Ark can offer. It's a bit sad that she finds out how the world/Internet works in such a public way but she or her parents should have known better.

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.

― c sharp major, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:52 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

haha yes, 'let's go to the mall' has inexplicably been in my head as a result of r.b., though idk, they're not quite the same

i guess because partying *is* exciting but going to the ma-a-all isn't.

I'm gonna do this version of the song as some serial killer type might do it and I'll be like super-viral, it'll be so funny

then I will live another 40 years or so with the shame of my act, and then die

an incognito rebecca black will place roses on your grave once a year

man it's gonna be even more awesome to be dead than I thought

she'll only visit your grave when the night winds wail, though.

all the lonely people where do they all come from
fun fun fun fun

gotta have my bowl gotta visit my serial

killer

wait what the hell that doesnt even make sense

thread is moving so quickly that you could declare 'friday' to be the vacuous pop analog of 'life: a user's manual' and nobody would notice. hitler. poo.

friday's probably the best english translation of a perec work yeah

clearly her agonizing over whether to get in the front or back seat is symbolic of the anxiety teen girls feel regarding their impending womenhood. does she ride in the chaste front seat, or become a creature of sexual agency by choosing the back seat?

there are levels of complexity here you sneering ghouls have not even begun to scratch