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

double dare should have just strapped those kids to a donkey and set the ostrich after em

btw i still cant watch the rebecca black video all the way through, it ruins me

Like the 13 year old me writing a song would have at least talked about DOING SOMETHING on the weekend, like dying your hair blue or going to Hot Topic or pinning a Fugazi patch on your hoodie or something

"13-yr-old girls to be exact. they kind of weird me out w/r/t r.black b/c she's not remotely sexualised"

yeah, lots of projection going on. but maybe everything is so sexualized now that people see it everywhere no matter what. like when people were talking about that other video and saying OMG creepy abandoned house who are these perv music company people! and it IS kind of a weird scene, but on the other hand, little kids explore outside all the time! and go into weird abandoned buildings and stuff. so, really, its kinda cute or something? interesting how people read these things though.

not a bad tune but I prefer the 'moose

http://http://www.nndb.com/people/449/000109122/craig-david.jpg

"Hey, the days of the week thing was MY idea!"

they ARE doing something on the weekend! partying!

Like the 13 year old me writing a song would have at least talked about DOING SOMETHING on the weekend, like dying your hair blue or going to Hot Topic or pinning a Fugazi patch on your hoodie or something

― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:56 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

well, in her case a NeverShoutNever bracelet instead of a Fugazi patch

I mean, 13 year old girls do not party on the weekends, okay? They just don't.

I don't think a 13 year old would write that.

you're hanging out with some lame 13-year-old girls, dude

It's just this laughably generic and meaningless idea of what a "fun time" is supposed to be, without any sort of real thought or substance.

I mean, 13 year old girls do not party on the weekends, okay? They just don't.

― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:03 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

they also dont drive

Why do you hate partying?

I feel like rich 13 year olds probably have more 'parties' than not rich 13 year olds

It doesn't make sense, it's like if I wrote a song about how excited I was move to Florida and retire and work on my Precious Moments collection.

it's called ~imagination~ stevie

you don't realize how awesome that song would be tho, that's why you don't have 8 mill page views

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they want to party, because they have heard partying is cool thing to do in a song

um, I remember 13-year-old girls partying quite a lot back in the day

I also remember a startlingly high number of teen pregnancies starting around age 15

FUN FUN FUN FUN

So Friday is #69 on US iTunes - I'm surprised that anyone has bought this, but do we have any idea what kind of sales this would translate to?

exactly, also makes them pretty much like everyone else xp to ice

except for kesha, there are a lot of miles on those tires

Does anyone have access to SoundScan?

they want to party, because they have heard partying is cool thing to do in a song

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:09 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

But my whole point is that it isn't even "they"! It's two guys' idea of "they"

i'm guessing this song's chart ascent will be so widely reported that it's just a matter of time til we get exact sales figures

Will it chart higher on the Hot 100 than "Bed Intruder"?

absolutely

they want to party, because they have heard partying is cool thing to do in a song
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:09 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

But my whole point is that it isn't even "they"! It's two guys' idea of "they"

― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:15 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i refuse to engage w/the concept of these 'two guys' theyre too weird i dont understand them

at 13, all my songs were about how depressed I was b/c girls like RB wanted nothing to do w/ me. I was soooooo misunderstood, see..

I've posted the only song I remember writing when I was 13 on the boards before:

Poems You Wrote When You Were 15

http://twitter.com/_RebeccaBlack_/status/47718066150309890
http://twitter.com/_RebeccaBlack_/status/47730311290814464

i think she might be awesome

can really see this going #1 on itunes, the day that comes after thursday. the next day after is is saturday, and after that comes sunday.

*after it

lol @ lex thinking her being a panic at the disco superfan is awesome

'A', he'd say. Then 'B'. 'C' would usually follow...

obviously you guys have never seen catherine hardwicke's cinema-verite thirteen

^^^ive seen this, classic material. also slightly racist iirc?

oh word? it's a good film, way the hell >>>> larry clark.

Wasn't Thirteen cowritten by the actress who played the corrupting friend?

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I don't remember any racism? A lot of the kids (not girls) the protag. hung out with were minorities....

....wait.

yeah, it was based partly on her own life iirc

so i guess we can't rule out that partying on friday involves whippets and punching one another in the face

I swear this video reminds me of the Shaggs updated for 2011 more than anything else. There's the general idea of what a song is, how it's sung, what a video should look like, etc. but the specifics remain mysterious and just out of reach. Technology has changed a lot, so on first listen it's hard to hear the fact that this isn't all that far from Foot Foot.

I don't remember any racism? A lot of the kids (not girls) the protag. hung out with were minorities....

....wait.

― yeah (kelpolaris), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:34 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

minority men were cast as crepes & white dude was the only one who was like, 'you are too young 4 boning' iirc

based on a tru story complicates that somewhat i suppose

i can't remember it that well. but in itself that's not necessarily racist.

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.

― minsktrans.by (get bent), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 4:10 AM (10 hours ago)

heck, with a bit of googling, you can find out what school she goes to (surprisingly it isn't one that charges tuition and/or is run by $cientologists) and see photos of her in theatrical garb, standing next to a male schoolmate who also appeared in the Friday video. but when I earned my google degree, I took an oath not to spread that kind of personal info abroad.

http://www.urbanedjournal.org/reviews/breview0008.pdf

this dude lays it out.

Evie draws Tracy into her world of cool older boys, nearly all of whom are African American. Amazingly, not one of these older males of color is possessed of any sort of moral compass. They are represented as utterly amoral, freely trafficking in drugs and sex with middle-school aged girls. I suppose this gives the audience the doubly transgressive thrill of watching 13 year old girls having interracial sex. Yet I was disturbed by the fact that none of the film’s black males ever questions whether it’s OK to commit statutory rape with 13 year old girls, to provide them with illicit drugs and alcohol, or to swap them like baseball cards.

I suppose this gives the audience the doubly transgressive thrill of watching 13 year old girls having interracial sex.

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well... no more racist than this
http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/8912576.Midsomer_Murders_producer_suspended_after_race_row/

kinda inevitable that we've been trained to look at everything from a PC perspective as well. 13, i think, manages to violate that with little aim to harm, as seen here ^

I have a hunch that Ark representatives visited school and community singing/acting programs in upscale areas and pitched their music video scheme to wide-eyed kids and their neurotic but filthy rich parents. that's what I'd do if I had no shame. I really doubt that Ark gets all of its business from random people who stumble across their website.