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

I mean when I first saw it without knowing what it was I didn't mentally categorize it as another zonday-type lol video, I just thought "here's another unambitious and mediocre pop song."

O.T.M. My immediate thought was, "Wow, Radio Disney has just given up completely here."

Seems like there's maybe an underlying attempt by the Ark Music guys to show that they can make a hit with ANYONE, that the singer doesn't matter at all. Which is sort of interesting, I guess.

Well, and that's the thing with these songwriting/production teams, they have these beats and structures and maybe some melody or instrumentation sitting around and can plug anything and anyone into it depending on who they're working with. Kinda like the Ryan Tedder/Kelly Clarkson/Beyonce kerfuffle from last year.

http://fuckyeahcjfam.tumblr.com/

party like a rich kid guys

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhzhsykFnD1qcnhhzo1_500.gif

listening to teena marie 'i need your lovin' when that gif popped up on my screen, lolz for some reason

I realize we're already across the rubicon here, but that CJ Fam tumblr seems to be in poor taste.

"I realize we're already across the rubicon here, but that CJ Fam tumblr seems to be in poor taste."

THE DEFINING WORDS OF THE POST-EMPIRE

The song didn't go viral because it's an unambitious piece of daytime radio filler, it went viral because it united everyone from Britney fans to 4Chan in laughing at how terrible it is. It has a surface feel of slick studio professionalism but the beating heart is one of hapless amateurism - something clearly distinct, for the majority i'd wager, from the junk Disney comes up with on its off days. That said, hapless amateurism isn't limited to vanity projects - if something like Vanilla's No Way, No Way, were around today, it would have the same kind of reaction.

I'd be genuinely surprised if Ark Music had any idea that this song, or any of their others, would get more than 60,000 or 70,000 Youtube views. The primary audience is surely the friends and family of the kids concerned. The objective isn't to turn average kids into stars with their songwriting / studio wizardry, it's to make them feel like stars, while pocketing a healthy cheque from their parents.

One of the most interesting things, for me, has been the general lack of malice in the meme-generating responses. She's quite an easy target - someone fundamentally talentless getting to live her dreams on a public stage thanks to the largess of her wealthy parents - but the ribbing has tended to be pretty good natured, by tumblr-bait standards. Again, i think it comes down to the amateurism - there's a kind of goofy charm that comes with it that an equally bad song by a pro singer might not carry.

Quincy Jones' voice emanating from the iPad at the launch party is an underrated moment in all this, I think.

yeah i get it if the song sounds "real" to people who aren't all that familiar with or interested in teenpop, or who hate it, but otherwise your immediate response is "either something weird is Up with this or it is a really, really unprecedented low". my reaction was basically tim's--the song is so incompetent in so many weird ways; i'd never seen anything like it.

hearing it was like hearing half the music i listen to through the ears of half the people i know.

gotta have my bowl
smoke weed, listen to sade

― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP)

I know this is the 2nd time I have otm'd a weed post in this thread, but Jamie_ATP otm

i played this for the lovely Emma b and she said "I can see why people like watching it, there's something genuine about her"

kinda hard to argue with

there's something genuine about her

The one... TR00 ARK

http://images.wikia.com/indianajones/images/a/aa/Death_by_face_melting_2.jpg

i wonder though if this is in fact the death of autotune. if jay-z was not the light, he was only bearing witness to the light.

I mean when I first saw it without knowing what it was I didn't mentally categorize it as another zonday-type lol video, I just thought "here's another unambitious and mediocre pop song."

― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

eh i knew something was wrong right away, p sure most people did, hence the memeification - tim is all over this one w/the specifics

this comment has shown up on her official page, i don't know if it's real but lol anyway.

At 12:59am on March 15, 2011, john black said…
Wow!What a wild last few days,huh?I hope you take this new found fame(or infamomy in some cases)and grab hold of it!Don't look back,look forward to your next great thing that will come your way.This such a lucky break that doesn't come along very often for most singers.It's yours right now to mold your future if you choose to embrace this opportunity!Way to go my little star! Dad

I want my infamomy!

wait whats this abt?

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il perpetua anorexico

― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:37 PM (Yesterday)

this will have its own panel at the next emp pop conference. people had idol fever at the one in los angeles. idol idol idol. they could do a whole conference on idol. there are so many angles you can take. s whole world of idol! forever and ever. and rebecca/ark is similar. there is lots to talk about here! i don't agree with the couple of people on here who don't think it's worth talking about. it's fun to talk about.

i was really thinking the craziest thing is that we haven't even experienced an actual friday with this song in our lives

kindof enjoy that temporary suspension

so crazy

the buildup is a little excruciating. keep looking at my calendar...

i think the annoyance about "talking about it" is due to the self-referential nature of the discussion. eventually we're just talking about the fact that we're talking about it, ad infinitum. the think pieces and analysis that follows is just as predictable and tiresome. it's like this ride no one can get off...

I think this is the quickest turnaround from the time a meme goes viral to the time my mother forwards a link of it to me.

...if something like Vanilla's No Way, No Way, were around today, it would have the same kind of reaction.

i had to google this; we didn't get this one in the u.s. afaik.

lol, lol

lol.

Rickrolling is dead. Long live Blackroll!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0

i think the annoyance about "talking about it" is due to the self-referential nature of the discussion. eventually we're just talking about the fact that we're talking about it, ad infinitum. the think pieces and analysis that follows is just as predictable and tiresome. it's like this ride no one can get off...

i'll take this over sheen any day

I find this song to be hilarious and bad and goddamn I cannot wait for FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY on ILX

when does one of these kids commit suicide and we're all technically responsible for the bullying?

based on corey haim I would say 2030.

it's almost as if everybody's lookin forward to the weekend

weekend

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http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/7379/cjdeal.gif

the buildup is a little excruciating. keep looking at my calendar...

The worst thing is we haven't been given any guidance about how to deal with Tuesday or Wednesday. I mean, if it were Thursday, I'd know what's going on.

fuck I haven't even thought about front seat or back seat yet
AGH THE PRESSURE

it's a kind of sign of something about me that every time this song goes through my head (which is all the time now) it now goes "n*gg*s in the FRONT seat, n*gg*s in the BACK seat"

Just listened to the Dylan version. A++++++

She makes Tiffany seem like Muddy Waters

gotta have my bowl
gotta have "cereal"

maybe she eats her cereal in a bread bowl, that's why they are listed separately

nope! she is obv smoking the chronic
which would explain why she has such a hard time to figure out where to sit in her friends' car
another sign of deviant behavior: faking her parents out by pretending to catch the school bus when she is really planning to ride (recklessly at that) w/ her underage delinquent friends.

*which would explain why she has such a hard time figuring out where to sit in her friends' car

been having some 'cereal' myself, you see..

Greil Marcus weighs in on Rebecca Black. This is some of his best work since Mystery Train!

i see my frieannns

kickin in the front seat

we we we we so excited

disappointed that the artist wasn't someone named Rebecca doing a song called Black Friday

the sped up happy hardcore remix makes me lololololol

supposedly the video getting posted on the Tosh.0 blog last week was what really helped the thing blow up, so it was disappointed that they didn't show it on tonight's episode of the show.