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

This thread is about to get awesome again.

she tweeted about it (i'm still not 100% sure the account is actually her but it was datestamped way before she was at all known)

Yeah I remember the tweet but I'm almost wondering if that was some weird joke.

you own enough clothes to require multiple airports?

sadly yes, because I am terrible at throwing things away

i can't believe anyone would have a problem with people spending 2 grand for something like this. they might have sprung for some singing lessons though. anyway, great return on investment! she's set for college. fuck a tutor.

lol things I would spend 2k on for my musically-inclined child: singing lessons, piano lessons, violin lessons, dancing lessons, idk, tapdancing lessons!

I do like how we are all of a sudden wholeheartedly supporting this company that we previously painted as a fly-by-night huckster operation designed to scam rich LA families out of thousands of dollars.

now they can afford to give her any lessons she wants!

I find it hard to believe they weren't already spending money on singing and acting lessons if they were willing to spend money on this

this is america we cut right to the chase

we didn't know how much ark charged before. we thought it was a rich kid scam or something. 2 grand is doable for people who aren't rich. i actually thought it was probably more like 50 grand or some crazy number like that for the whole star treatment package.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Shortcut.png

I still think the 2k number is pretty fishy, there's definitely some book cooking going on.

they've obviously hacks but if that is at all a realistic figure it's fair to say they're impressively cost-effective hacks!

yeah for real. i mean parents spend all kinds of crazy money on their kids for stuff that has no future benefit or whatever.

one thing needs to be outlined again and again: none of these people could have had ANY idea that this was going to happen. no way in hell.

er, underlined.

And, for instance: the cast were actually friends and acquaintances, yeah? And maybe the whole thing was some sort of fun/crazy day out for them, rather than scale pay or whatever.

one thing needs to be outlined again and again: none of these people could have had ANY idea that this was going to happen. no way in hell.

Exactly!

well, yeah! that's why I'm eye-rolly at people who are claiming that this was a good gamble, because it wasn't really a gamble in the first place! xps

in the first 3 weeks this video was on YouTube with just a few thousand hits i imagine lots of kids at RB's school knew about it and weren't all hoisting her on their shoulders and cheering her on. kids with showbiz ambitions don't tend to get treated with a ton of respect at school.

news headlines I did not need to read today:

Chris Brown explains nude photo, weighs in on Rebecca Black

no thank you, USA Today

Btw, the tweet about the airport said "my family" not "my parents" -- could be extended relatives maybe? (Context suggested that the airport was in Colorado Springs.)

it will be a pure pop moment when Beiber records his version of Friday w/ RB and real Usher in the car

generally speaking, most people say "my uncle" or "my grandfather" if they mean someone in the extended family

at least, that's what I would say, and I am the template for America, so

fyi, here's an update on the star wars kid - seems like he's doing well, I'm happy for him

http://www.businessinsider.com/where-are-they-now-the-star-wars-kid-2010-5

Colorado Springs has a couple airports... the Air Force Academy is located right there. + it's just a generally wealthy town... didn't immediately recognize it from the video, tho.

wau her family owns the Air Force Academy

generally speaking, most people say "my uncle" or "my grandfather" if they mean someone in the extended family

True. But I can imagine someone like Paris Hilton saying "my family" to refer to the Hilton Empire.

xpost -- Those chinchillas REALLY need urgent care.

Back a few posts -- no indeed, it wasn't a gamble at all, it was this indulgence combined with a 'why not?' approach -- like Dan said, she's "someone who was trying out something she really wanted to pursue." When I was 13, it was 1984 and videos and pop were the center of EVERYTHING for me and I can't imagine that this is any less so for her in a different context. Had I been someone in that circumstance and I had enough talent to do a little something and reasonable self-confidence to go with it, parents who were both indulgent and a little practical as well who had been approached by this bunch of, indeed, cost-effective hacks who make a business out of such a vanity-press approach, I would have gone for it.

xxxxp Huh, public humiliation and psychiatric commitment turn out to be a great weight loss program for SW kid!

http://static2.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4be9b2967f8b9add438c0600

It's possible that it's Sioux Falls instead of Colorado Springs. She tweeted @VederaMusic on May 23, 2010.

Here are VederaMusic's tweets from that day:

#LOST!!!!
8:01 PM May 23rd, 2010 via web

Drive day...headed to Co. Springs....trying to find a place to stay in time to catch #LOST!
12:04 PM May 23rd, 2010 via web

Just uploaded Mobile Show 137 to vedera: http://www.kyte.tv/ch/312616/904119
1:29 AM May 23rd, 2010 via Kyte

@chrisxacosta HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISTOPHER!
12:51 AM May 23rd, 2010 via web in reply to chrisxacosta

thank you brookings, sd for a great night. headed to the hotel in sioux falls now...laundry time!
12:01 AM May 23rd, 2010 via mobile web

OH WAIT, I just noticed that RB's May 23 tweet has a 1:12 AM timestamp, so it's almost definitely Sioux Falls.

(Though I'm not sure how Twitter timestamps work -- is it local time or my time?)

never change jaymc

has rebecca met zack yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWD0vMrCc6Y

Belongs here:

Things that just have to be Tim and Eric skits

has anyone done a YouTube with the song set to clips from the Ice Cube movie Friday yet? the possibilities for "gotta have my bowl/ gotta have cereal" alone are endless.

yes they have

so they have!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prH55eAwgLE

disappointed they slept on the potential for "bowl" double entendres though

and another:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEswMimzS4w

Now that Zack thing I can totally imagine he wrote, though idk abt the video

"gotta get fresh" w/ Johnny Witherspoon on the toilet spraying air freshener is pretty inspired

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=190535860984629

running errands w/ my dad today (fun fun fun fun), tho he got all weirded out when I chose to sit in the back seat.

okay now I want to go watch Friday again

^ Always the right attitude

:D

surely ARK will now start charging a heck of a lot more for their services?!

"as seen on TV"