anticipating a Pomplamousse directed Rebecca Black video.
― gr8080, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
At what point this week (if at all) did you make the switch into thinking this whole thing is kind of fun/cool instead of laughable/ridiculous?
sometime on sunday for me
― teledyldonix, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess i just didn't want this weekend to eeeeeeeeend
Pato looks like Kenyon Martin.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm actually rooting for her success now.
For me, it's always been both fun and ridiculous. I was never on-board with all the "worst song/video ever" talk, because if I find it amusing enough, then it's not exactly bad. But I do think that once the song was officially released as a single, then it became something worth rooting for, rather than just an Internet curio.
― Joseph Beuys II Men (jaymc), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
That people are actually buying this in numbers is actually the most surprising part of this for me.
I kinda want to buy it, just to help propel it on the charts.
fat starwars kid isn't making $$ on iTunes.
― gr8080, Thursday, March 17, 2011 3:15 PM (7 minutes ago)
he also made a private video that was put online without his permission, not a flashy music video that was made public with his total consent ... not really a great comparison overall
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
This doesn't really work but parts of it are mad:
http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DoIr8-f2OWhs&start1=&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Djqq3cgvZSTE&start2=0&authorName=zoot
― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
That's my place on it too. I've seen/heard plenty worse than this, but where I first got a kick out of making fun of it, I eventually began to appreciate its unifying silliness. xp to jaymc
I still think ARK are some creepers, though.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h279/juicyfrt/common-5.jpg
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h279/juicyfrt/198296_745407101159_12819956_39616245_3637697_n.jpg
― I may be wrong but I think his name is Husher (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
The guest rapper looks like Gary Sheffield.
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Monday, March 14, 2011 2:31 PM (3 days ago)
hahahaha totally!
― gr8080 sings the blues (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, March 14, 2011 2:56 PM (3 days ago)
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
it is still laughable/ridiculous
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Overall, similar...but when you start comparing mouths and noses and eyes, it falls apart.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I misread that as "The guest rapper looks like Garry Shandling." And, well, he sorta does.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
closer than Usher *sulks*
― I may be wrong but I think his name is Husher (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
he doesn't really look like anyone famous...?
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
why can't pato just be pato
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i still say that depends on if you consider Maino famous
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm looking forward to her comeback album following her stint in rehab following her meteoric rise to stardom
― in my world of suggest bans (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Is Rebecca Black? I'm guessing that when you sign up to something like this the paperwork signs most of the profits to ARK, but...
Anyway I guess I'm rooting for her because my name is Rebecca, I found being 13 pretty traumatic, and she looks as blankly nervous and confused by the concept of "partying" as I was back then. (Ah, projection.)
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Finding CJ Fam's Ordunurry Perpstore more of an ongoing disturbance than Friday at present
― MPx4A, Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:53 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
Really it's more amazing than Friday, but it's so disturbing it can't catch on I guess.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Poor Pato.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
R-B, Rebecca BlackSo chillin’ in the front seat (In the front seat)In the back seat (In the back seat)I’m drivin’, cruisin’ (Yeah, yeah)Fast lanes, switchin’ lanesWit’ a car up on my side (Woo!)(C’mon) Passin’ by is a school bus in front of meMakes tick tock, tick tock, wanna screamCheck my time, it’s Friday, it’s a weekendWe gonna have fun, c’mon, c’mon, y’allThe unexamined life is not worth living.
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
lol i just figured out that this guy's name is really pato and you all weren't on some extended riff on our own king boy for the the whole thread
― goole, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I just came to the harrowing realization that Rebecca Black, at age 13, has not ever known a world where Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake aren't famous. Not that it means much, but "Oops! I Did it Again" to her is like "More Than a Feeling" to me. :/
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
"Oops" is only 2 years older than she is.
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost -- Well, yeah. That's how generations work.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I got that mixed up, she is only 2 years older than "Oops" (the song, not Luna's ex-bf).
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
oh snap
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
xp - I know, but half of it is "she is so young" and the other half is "Britney and Justin have been around that long, but it doesn't seem like that long."
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
This article from last year about Ark prodigy Kaya is amusing:
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/doug_moe/article_6dcb6cf0-83d7-11df-a6f0-001cc4c002e0.html
Some percentage of haterade must stem from how Rebecca unintentionally has become a household name without that long struggle for recognition on the merits of talent, despite not being represented by a "high-powered entertainment law firm" - yet.
― Spectrist, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Wit’ a car up on my side (Woo!)
^i heard "cop" for "car" (and thought the Woo! was supposed to be a siren)
― An adult guest rapper (donna rouge), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't see how that works, unless the 'haters' are the people that are confused and think "Friday" is a normal hit song with the support of the music industry and are outraged that people sincerely like something so bad (xpost)
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
granted, there do seem to be a fair number of people with that misconception
this song still sucks and is unintentionally hilarious. i'm not rooting for Rebecca but not rooting against her either. in 3 days I'll have forgotten about this just like I did Pants on the Ground
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
this thread is over-excelsior'd but I want to show love to Shasta's "unexamined life" riff
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone make a poll so we can decide who the second-best Ark Music artist is?
Or would CJ Fam walk away with it?
I kinda love "My Jeans" too.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I would appear that from the comments on youtube and iTunes for the song and the "worst song ever written" in the press that, yes, much of the (young) audience is believing that this is being dished out to them by the music industry, one which decides what is good and who we shall make stars of. I mean I could be wrong but I have doubts any kind of fraction of those 13 whatever million views care about "outsider music".
― Spectrist, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
someone should loop the "fun fun fun fun" refrain and layer the rest of the vocal track over it "O Superman"-style
― corey, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm not rooting for Rebecca but not rooting against her either.
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Thursday, March 17, 2011 9:01 PM (9 minutes ago)
Totally - it's just this thing to behold. This magical, miserable diversion.
― Spectrist, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the either/or of totally outraged gullibles and nerds who use the term "outsider music" is a bit of a false dichotomy that ignores a much larger third group
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Stoners.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
or just take the vocals of o superman and put em to fun fun fun fun
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DCD2LRROpph0&start1=&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Djqq3cgvZSTE&start2=0&authorName=moebiussuibeom
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― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
o cerealo booooowwwwwwl
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
O Mom and Dad! (Thanks!)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
and when the front seat is gone, there's always the back seat
― An adult guest rapper (donna rouge), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i53.tinypic.com/33cx98l.jpg
― prolego, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man, I love the way the "fun" loop goes in and out of sync with the main song
brb, going to play it down the phone to steve reich
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Here come the beatsThey're Ark Magic beatsMade in Ark Magic
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link