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

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you have no idea what I have planned

surprise us

let's just say it'll be a particularly unconfined celebration of our weekly solstice

so unless there's a tongan out there lurking, u all gonna be looooosers

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will there be a vacuum y/n

( jokes)

we need to recruit a Tongan stat

it's on!

what the hell were yall doing last Friday when this thing hit? Certainly not getting it permanently lodged in your head so that by Sunday you had to ban all mentions of it from your house, by the sounds of it...

This thread is the evil twin of the Ignition (Remix) one.

Tap-dancing Jesus Christ on a cracker!

Meet the old meme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA

Same as the new meme.

so has anyone figured out what part of orange county she's from? the o.c. register wouldn't say anything more than that she attends a "northeast orange county middle school." no stalko, just curious.

ummmmm well i looked at the profile of "john black" who commented on her ark music factory page claiming to be her father. his profile lists his location as anaheim, so i guess that could be it.

oh and i guess that would also make sense in light of the fact that her bio says she has sung the national anthem at the angel stadium

nope! she is obv smoking the chronic

i know right! and cereal = ketamine

http://sickmouthy.com/2011/03/16/who-is-rebecca-black/

Very nice, Nick.

Thank you.

god it really is impossible to wake up the day after hearing this for the first time without having it stuck in your head

How is this any worse than "Party In The USA"?
And, has anybody noticed how good Fergilicious sounds these days?

"Fergalicious" has always been great.

"Party In The U.S.A." is completely awful but it doesn't derive any particular entertainment value from being as incredibly awkward as "Friday"

yeah "fergalicious" is a terrific song

"my humps" is the real comparison point here

the people who go "it's just a mediocre pop song, how's it different from a lot of real chart hits" confound me, like, did you watch the whole thing or what

Then he walks back to the room. Right now I'm sweating like hell
Checks under the bed (bed)
then under the dresser (dresser)
He looks at the closet (closet)
I pull out my berretta (berretta)
He walks up to the closet (closet)
He’s close up to the closet (closet)
Now he’s at the closet (closet)
Now he’s opening the closet (closet, closet, closet)

fwiw "Trapped In The Closet" was also a horrible trainwreck

I wonder what all this does for Ark's business model? Surely no parent who googles them is going to think "hmm...my daughter would love if that happened to her". At the same time this is clearly a one-off fluke event, so they have no future as a million-view monetisation machine either.

I know DJP I am just trying to be funny

I'm aware of what the differences are, I'm just not convinced that they're significant.

As a point of comparison, here's a current video from a Radio Disney star. Lots of similarities in the milieu, the "storyline," the lyrics, the structure, etc. Miranda Cosgrove has obviously been raised to be a star (she was in "School of Rock" 8 years ago) and puts something into her performance that Rebecca Black is clearly not (yet?) capable of, but still.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiOumJEe2yQ

ppl reacted to "Trapped In The Closet" much with the same reaction that they are reacting to this; gleeful fascination with watching someone crash and burn before their very eyes while saying some amazingly stupid shit

the big difference is that if ppl take Rebecca Black's banality as representative of white ppl, it shows that white ppl are boring and slightly confused about car seats, whereas with R. Kelly taking that shit as representative of black ppl would make you think they are all insane nymphomaniacs; it would seem ludicrous to think that ppl would actually take R. Kelly's nonsense at face value until you go look at The Corner

xp: oh curse you I'm posting this anyway

Rebecca Black's banality as representative of white ppl

next aerosmith album "I Am...Rebecca Black" already slated for June release

and yeah I agree with you that R Kelly's schtick is irresistible flypaper to racists but I mean I feel like if we don't have fun with him (because R Kelly is clearly to my mind having a lot of fun in his work) then we're letting the bad guys win

it is, IMO, much easier to have fun with him if you aren't black

but I have said this before and no one outside of my family and Bill Cosby actually agrees with me

http://i55.tinypic.com/50npdi.jpg

Fun, fun, think about fun
You know what it is

god it really is impossible to wake up the day after hearing this for the first time without having it stuck in your head

agree... damn this song, listened once, endless repeat loop in head today

it is, IMO, much easier to have fun with him if you aren't black

but I have said this before and no one outside of my family and Bill Cosby actually agrees with me

no I actually can imagine, or imagine that I can imagine - complicated q imo (it's the same race-relations basket roughly as white people find the dope dealer persona super-cool, isn't it?) I was just saying that the argt that this song could actually be popular has support in r kelly's (and plenty of country singles I think) (and king diamond's) tendency to do this documenting-a-live-moment-as-it-develops schtick

bonus side quiz, how pissed are people going to be at us if this thread stops bringing lols and becomes a performing-race thread

http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/5822/benniuv.jpg

with other Disney pop songs and especially "Party In The U.S.A." I think the main difference beyond the level of competence is the cynicism involved at every level of the conception, execution and reception of a song like that. with "Friday" instead there's total naiveté and a resulting haphazard strangeness that goes way beyond Miley being an awkward post-Alanis warbler or Ke$ha saying dumb rhymes in AutoTune.

DJP who do you feel about the racial implications of Pato's role in "Friday," to steer this thread back on topic

ha who=how

ha who?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-WQRXVX_HSg/R7mbB7kWGVI/AAAAAAAAADc/OwWqE1tOgT4/s320/nelson-muntz.gif

prefer "who" tbh lol xp

I got this
you got this

i feel like even as we've become so tolerant or accustomed to different types of singing and different types of music, and tend to focus on things like melody and lyrics, there's a lot of subtle issues of intonation and inflection and meter that we kind of take for granted until we hear something that just flaunts convention in such an alien way. like you could so easily rewrite the part about cereal and catching the bus so that it's pretty normal observational pop song fodder, and sing it with more natural phrasing, but then it would just be boring and not entrancingly wrong.

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yeah, not only do the two videos mirror each other but also that miranda cosgrove video ends with her whacking the alarm clock at the exact same time the rebecca black one starts with her waking up. splice em together and put a cowboy in the middle and you've got mulholland drive.

i.e. one's a hazy hollywood dream version and the other's your crappy reality.

Mark my words Rebecca Black will one day be ackonowledged as a pioneer for troll-pop.

Read that as 'trollop' and thought you were being very rude.

how: Any adult is going to look incredibly creepy and out of place in this video so I think any racial implications are reinforcing grossness that would be there regardless.

who: Halle Berry