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

i thought the lyrics were pretty obviously written by an adult because they were pretty obviously written by someone who just did not give a shit at all, and why wouldn't a 13-year-old give a shit about writing a song she was going to sing

“Funniest part of the whole thing is Rebecca Black is actually [an] amazing singer [with] a unique tone and a fantastic fun person,” Jey wrote in an e-mail.

This was also said in the GMA interview by the dude. And her acoustic version and brief "Star Spangled Banner" rendition also show she is far from the worst singer ever.

So... why the fucking auto-tune crap?

Oh, and I love people calling the rapper "Fat Usher."

gah, why'd she have to go record the unplugged version. and why does she hold that note that long, her voice sucks, and that just proves it even more.

NOTHING FUN OR LOLWORTHY ABOUT THIS RENDITION IT SOUNDS LIKE A 13 YEAR OLD TRYING TO BE VANESSA CARLTON BY WAY OF KE$HA WHY U THINK THAT A GOOD MIX K HOPE YOU ENJOYED YER 15 MINUTES MY BONERI S NOW GONE

he's not really fatter than Usher, though? do people just need a modifier to make up for the fact that he doesn't actually look like Usher?

She didn't sing, "Dawnser's lee light," so that's good.

― dlp9001, Friday, March 18, 2011 4:37 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
beverly cleary BOOM

― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Friday, March 18, 2011 4:39 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

LOLed at this. I totally remember reading that Ramona book

MY BONERI S NOW GONE

― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Friday, March 18, 2011 4:52 PM (41 seconds ago) Bookmark

there's that trademark unfortunate lack of self-awareness i was missing from the Bo Jackson Overdrive days

Better than Not Usher...

has "Fat Usher" picked up? i thought it was just dom, who is pretty much the platonic unreliable source on this issue

I'm going w/ fat pato

The sped up version...oh my god.

doesn't pato mean duck

lovin' the unplugged guitarist's strokes-hair. rebecca black = carlesian buzzband.

the FRAENS experiment

― *emergency alternative display name (Pillbox), Friday, March 18, 2011 3:40 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

really the most lolsome thing about the acoustic version is the fact that she's singing a tender guitar/piano ballad about being confused by car seats

when will she record a dubstep version with burial and four tet??

honestly that rendition belonged around a campfire. i don't care how but they coulda got the piano out there too

is this song really any more catchy than tay zonday's running from the concrete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCeXTl86ud4

Rebecca's gonna cover Silent Running next

these videos are like the uncanny valley of music

so close to the real thing but creeping me out just the same

I have never heard "Running From The Concrete" before

this is much more lolworthy/memeworthy than "Chocolate Rain"

the next We are the World needs to feature all internet meme artists...Chocolate Rain, Chris Crocker, Rebecca Black, et al..

what was the name of "What What" dude?

SAMWELL

http://snurl.com/27nrip

This works surprisingly well if you lower the volume on Rebecca Black (which I know many people want to do anyway)...

every time people make fun of the seat thing i want to mount a half-hearted defense about how the lyrics were clearly supposed to refer to choosing among which of many seats in the bus, and which group of friends to sit with (which is admittedly still kind of dumb but less bizarre), and then the video totally changed the context of the line to a car with one empty seat, but it's not really worth it, is it.

sure looks like a slammin party in the video, what with everybody gathered around watching Rebecca sing and nobody with any drinks or food in hand

next level exegesis

xp

i mean couldn't whoevers mom it was have sprung for some Ecto Cooler

xp idk though because then the whole song would be "hell yeah it's friday, and after we arrive at school and make our way through a seven-hour school day we're are TOTALLY going to party!"

but the lyrics are:

kickin' in the front seat
sittin' in the back seat
can't make my mind up
which seat should I take?

... so she's already seated in the back, kicking the front seat, and she still isn't sure where to sit...?

also re: the video screwing up the song, I love LOVE "my friend on the right"

(I will grant that maybe they butchered the slang term "kickin' it" in a rare attempt to make the lyrics scan)

I thought it was like her friends are kicking it in the front seat

lol xp

xpost that's cuz 'that bitch is on my left' was edited out in post

Rebecca singing that "we so excited", "we gon have a good time" almost sounds like someone who learned english phonetically

11. there's this moment around 2:53 that makes me feel like Kristen Bell and NatPo fucked and then had a baby and that baby grew up and then fucked the Bird Lady from KitH and then that baby reached adolescence, and then made this music video.

this is still making me lose my shit btw

tay zanday no longer moves away from the mic to breathe in :(

I genuinely like "Chocolate Rain"

It reminds me of things I wrote when I was in high school

(admittedly I only like it in 45 second chunks)

even though the lateral mic breathe thing was a beloved trademark, an artist is like a shark he has to keep moving or he'll die

he could have switched it up and leaned back, or ducked

I barely even remember why I found this funny, now it just seems like an awkward but damn catchy song. The only bit that still brings it reliably is when Pato shows up.

but the lyrics are:

kickin' in the front seat
sittin' in the back seat
can't make my mind up
which seat should I take?

... so she's already seated in the back, kicking the front seat, and she still isn't sure where to sit...?

also re: the video screwing up the song, I love LOVE "my friend on the right"

― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Friday, March 18, 2011 5:09 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

i thought she was weighing her options like "kickin' in the front seat seems fun, but hey, sittin' in the back seat has its upsides as well!"

Whether she can sing or not is irrelevant.. she's been immortalized as an autotune singer. Millions of people now associate her voice with how it specifically sounds in this song and for better or worse nothing will change that.

wait i'm pretty sure the tweet about the airport came from a fake rebecca black twitter, yes? (i am assuming _RebeccaBlack_ is fake)

Why would someone set up a fake Rebecca Black Twitter a year before she became famous?

running from the concrete is good!
friday is kinda boring?

Also the video lies.. in the song she's supposed to be choosing her seat on the schoolbus, but in the video they used a car because they couldn't find a schoolbus for the videoshoot.

And yes it really did take me all week to figure that out..

What's more fun: kickin' or sittin'? I feel like the front seat is the obvious call.

Next Friday I'm going to push the boat out and try kicking in not the front seat but the back seat