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

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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?!!

There's a shot of that Two And A Half Men kid in the rockcamp intro video - sadly he doesn't have a rock video on youtube yet

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 (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think the last thing anybody expects is that she will do anything that's remotely as funny as "Friday" or helps "Friday" seem funnier. honestly anything we learn about her other than that she's a normal untalented rich teenager will be a bummer, and that includes sad personal life, winky in-on-the-joke antics, etc.

her followup, "The Seat I Chose," is a much more introspective affair

oh my god

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This is making me v uncomfortable/embarassed

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.

― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 6:12 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

obviously their #1 business plan/revenue stream is attracting gullible clients to finance these songs and videos, but i definitely think part of the whole idea was that eventually one of them would (non-ironically/comedically) become a hit or one of the kids would become a YouTube superstar and they'd cash in big on that. i mean their non-Rebecca Black videos are generally as polished if not way more polished than the videos that launched Justin Bieber's career, it's not that hard to believe if they kept doing these for a year or two they'd stumble into actual success.

that this song is an earworm has been well-documented in itt, and I too have had it stuck in my head all day. The maddening part is that, instead of the whole thing, or even a complete verse, the only thing that has been cycling over and over ad infinitum is: partyinpartyin YEAH partyinpartyin YEAH, FUN FUN FUN FUN, partyinpartyin YEAH partyinpartyin YEAH etc.

a good bro of mine runs this business, he's an amazing guitarist and manages to eat off rock camp for dadz

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the only thing that has been cycling over and over ad infinitum is: partyinpartyin YEAH partyinpartyin YEAH, FUN FUN FUN FUN, partyinpartyin YEAH partyinpartyin YEAH etc.

yup

your username is not helping the earworm leave my head btw gbx :)

tbh it reminds me less of Rebecca Black and more of

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I think Rebecca's missing one key point -- weekends suck when you're a teen. yea, it's awesome to not have to go to school, but anything you do on the weekend is likely dictated by your parents and requires you doing a ton of chores first. and fuck it if you're grounded.

Unless you're spoiled rotten.

when I was 13, everything was worth it as long as I wasn't go to school

going

you can see where this philosophy got me

i mean my weekends were ok but that's cuz i played sports and stuff....some of my friends had shitty assed weekends

I definitely wasn't partying, partying yeah, but I had plenty of fun fun fun fun

i had fun that didn't involve other people cuz they hated me

Oh, man, the reviews on iTunes. I can't C&P from there, but they're worth reading, especially because there are at least a few people who have obviously encountered the song for the first time while browsing through iTunes and are reviewing it on its own merits.

i see my frieeeensss

I see my

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looooooooool

I showed my wife this earlier this evening, and literally a minute later I heard my three year old, happily playing in another room, start singing a similar upbeat song about the days of the week. "Friday, Friday, Friday! Then comes Saturday and Sunday!"

It was adorable. And scary.