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

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

Guys, nothing she does again is going to be anything like this. There's now a conscious awareness of audiences' perception that makes it more or less impossible for her to recreate this in any form. Like, anything she does is going to be with a huge wink or something that will negate everything that makes "Friday" funny/amusing/great in the first place.

I mean clearly this was supposed to be "Hey, fun pop song, so cool!", not the laughing stock it turned out to be. There is no more room for any sort of naïveté

i still think it's a cute pop song.

it's no worse than, like, a back-to-school jc penney commercial

i think when i was thirteen shit like this kindof bummed me out that obviously loads of other thirteen yr olds were partying like mad every weekend and i was like "why do we only like shoplift and hang out in the alley beside the cinema"

which is the kind of simulacra any thirteen year old would buy into in writing a pop song i think

like it would be a p cool and smart 13 year old that would write a song about their actual real experiences instead of like "i love you baby" shorthand

my 13th year was either spent in the principal's office or in my room listening to metal records

mine was listening to red hot chili peppers and being way too cool and superior try smoking

there have been like indications tho

i think when i was thirteen shit like this kindof bummed me out that obviously loads of other thirteen yr olds were partying like mad every weekend and i was like "why do we only like shoplift and hang out in the alley beside the cinema"

shoplifting & hanging out in the alley > partying like mad

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

Having a daydream that there will be a rockist version soon, where a 56-year-old general counsel/vintage Gibson collecter pays to have Ten Years After reform with himself at the bassist.

Guys, nothing she does again is going to be anything like this. There's now a conscious awareness of audiences' perception that makes it more or less impossible for her to recreate this in any form. Like, anything she does is going to be with a huge wink or something that will negate everything that makes "Friday" funny/amusing/great in the first place.

― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 5:39 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I mean clearly this was supposed to be "Hey, fun pop song, so cool!", not the laughing stock it turned out to be. There is no more room for any sort of naïveté

― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 5:41 PM (4 minutes ago)

I don't think her handlers were naive. I mean I doubt Ark's attitude was along the lines of, "genius! this'll go straight to the top of the chart's!" their business model was to cut low-budget music videos that stage kids and their parents would be proud to add to their portfolios.

"Friday"s producers were probably well aware that it was a goofy, ramshackle affair, but I doubt it mattered to them as long as it made the customer happy. on a spectrum between total naivete (i.e. unselfconsciously thinking the song was awesome and radio-ready) and total jadedness (i.e. setting out to make a "so bad it's good" meme), I think these Ark people fall somewhere in the middle. even if they take note of the song's ironic hipster appeal, I doubt they'll change their priorities much because that would mean compromising their main source of income, i.e. the rich kids and parents who need to be convinced that the project is being done in complete earnestness.

I'm not going to speculate on how all this internet attention will affect Rebecca's self-perception, because I really don't know.

Tay Zonday is a good example of a guy who started out in earnest but lapsed into self-parody once he gauged the public's reaction. but he started out as a self-employed, unpaid nobody of a singer, so he had nothing to lose by winking and joining the side of the people who mocked him. I can't say the same about our friends at Ark.

xxpost yeah seriously when i Regret not doing cool teenagery things when i was 13 it's mostly "hanging out in the alley"

i played starcraft and made parody film noirs

a million xposts to frogbs - "sheep will listen to anything" comment was 100% lol New Zealand is populated entirely by sheep ie poor attempt at regional humor

but I stand by it

when I was 13, I would do magic shows at the birthdays of 11 year old girls who would nowadays want to make a video with the Ark.

I kind of hope for RB's sake that she turns down whatever offers are being made at the moment and doesn't try to be a real pop star. I don't see how things can end well if she tries to make more of this than it is.

When I was 13 I had three friends and spent most of my time doing homework. Now I wish I'd been doing something else, e.g. partying.

Having a daydream that there will be a rockist version soon, where a 56-year-old general counsel/vintage Gibson collecter pays to have Ten Years After reform with himself at the bassist.

http://www.rockcamp.com/

a million xposts to frogbs - "sheep will listen to anything" comment was 100% lol New Zealand is populated entirely by sheep ie poor attempt at regional humor

don't take it personally...I have spent a lot of time on message boards like RYM, SomethingAwful, and 2+2 that totally take the humor out of things like this and say stuff like "this is LITERALLY the end of humanity", so yeah I'm kinda jaded

my sister just reminded me that rebecca black's celebration of friday is some straight-up BULLSHIT because fridays are when you have to do the "coyote run" at our old middle school. you do a half-lap around the track, run up this steep incline near the edge of campus that's right next to the foul-smelling dumpsters of nearby businesses, run all over campus while people who aren't in class laugh at you, and then come back and do another half lap for completionism's sake. all the parties in the world couldn't make me look forward to friday coyote runs.

also if today's drama nerds are anything like me and my friends were, she and her crew probably spend their weekends acting disaffected at the starbucks down by cinema city.

re: rockcamp

Is that rainbow beard from the Nilsson documentary?!!