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

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.

how_to_win_an_argument

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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.

the money's out there: pick it up it's yours

"your child is amazing!" why because $50,000."

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.

yeah, i did a bit of googling but got bored and gave up. *shrug* congrats on the degree tho!

but there is a wikipedia page now for "friday" and it says anaheim hills.

it's hard for me to make the Shaggs comparison because it's such a different aesthetic and the tools of production have changed so much. It's harder to hear earnestness through autotune ... but maybe that's just me.

ha ha oh shit, rebecca black attends my old middle school! and she'll probably attend my old high school if the ~fame~ doesn't take her.

THE FAME MONSTER

Until the Fame Takes Her - a Rebecca Black Metal documentary

man if she's an anaheim hills drama kid i guess i can't hate on her for making a goofy pop song w/ friends. when i was her age my friends and i were trying to send x-files spec scripts to chris carter.

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Don't know why I find this so funny.

lmao this song is, at the very least, very likely to chart in new zealand, where it is currently the #13 track on itunes.

I love NZ!

sheep will listen to anything

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

― Joseph Beuys II Men (jaymc), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:34 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, it was based partly on her own life iirc

― brigitte beardo (donna rouge), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:35 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol marketing

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.

umm no.

yeah this has absolutely nothing to do with the Shaggs

sheep will listen to anything

I hope this isn't some kind of sardonic "people are sheep remark" because if it is ughhh

Pretty sure it was about actual sheep

So given the local connection I'm going to be writing a small piece on this for the OC Weekly tomorrow. Should be fun!

xp It's got a bit to do with the Shaggs, I'd think. Though it's p much an inversion of, like, earnestness.

It's like comparing Showgirls to Plan 9 from Outer Space

^otm

Yeah that's a good comparison, but things are just so much different. With the Shaggs the joke was that they couldn't play, sing, keep time, or write songs, while "technically" there's really nothing wrong with "Friday", it's not really that much different from say Justin Bieber if you're not listening close (you know "my WUHRRRLD, is your WUHRRRRLD), but if you pay attention it becomes bizarre and hilarious. I mean you can connect them on some sort of overall general level but I dunno, she's got more to do with Mrs. Miller I'd say

sorry totally disappeared for two hours and now the discussion has thoroughly moved on, but xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxpost: yeah thirteen is eyeroll and easily-shocked-parent-baiting in many, many ways, one of which is how all the bad kids are black, but it's also weirdly powerful. the stuff between holly hunter (<3) and wood is really good.

I hope this isn't some kind of sardonic "people are sheep remark" because if it is ughhh

i think it was a joke about how new zealand has a lot of sheep (apparently even more than it has humans)

can't wait for Black's Christmas song later this year

http://beerandscifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/black-sheep-poster-horror-movie.jpg

this movie is awesome, they should totally do a sequel called Rebecca Black Sheep

oh i've been meaning to see that

I've been wanting to see that movie forever!

lol I forgot that Thirteen was a Catherine Hardwicke movie