I have never heard "Running From The Concrete" before
this is much more lolworthy/memeworthy than "Chocolate Rain"
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
the next We are the World needs to feature all internet meme artists...Chocolate Rain, Chris Crocker, Rebecca Black, et al..
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
what was the name of "What What" dude?
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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)...
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
next level exegesis
xp
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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!"
― accredited butter grader and dairy technologist (reddening), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
but the lyrics are:
kickin' in the front seatsittin' in the back seatcan't make my mind upwhich 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, 18 March 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
(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
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost that's cuz 'that bitch is on my left' was edited out in post
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Rebecca singing that "we so excited", "we gon have a good time" almost sounds like someone who learned english phonetically
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
tay zanday no longer moves away from the mic to breathe in :(
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I genuinely like "Chocolate Rain"
It reminds me of things I wrote when I was in high school
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
(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
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
he could have switched it up and leaned back, or ducked
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 18 March 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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!"
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Friday, 18 March 2011 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Joseph Beuys II Men (jaymc), Friday, 18 March 2011 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
running from the concrete is good!friday is kinda boring?
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 March 2011 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Friday, 18 March 2011 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
And yes it really did take me all week to figure that out..
― billstevejim, Friday, 18 March 2011 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
What's more fun: kickin' or sittin'? I feel like the front seat is the obvious call.
― dlp9001, Friday, 18 March 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Next Friday I'm going to push the boat out and try kicking in not the front seat but the back seat
― o0o00h really? (boxedjoy), Friday, 18 March 2011 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
rap remix back up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agoapiToLAM&feature=channel_video_title
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 18 March 2011 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Rebecca Black >> Pato
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Friday, 18 March 2011 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i like this girlhttp://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li8cdnR19G1qz8tzlo1_500.jpg
― gr8080, Friday, 18 March 2011 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Do you think she ever handed the essay in?
― o0o00h really? (boxedjoy), Friday, 18 March 2011 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Rebecca Black otm! Her sentence construction leads me to believe that she could do a much better job writing her own lyrics than the Ark hacks.
also, she should cover Big Fun (Big Fun Fun Fun Fun?)
― there should be more "asses" threads imo (Pillbox), Friday, 18 March 2011 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
wow way to tell it Rebecca
partyin partyinYEAH
the Touchtunes at my bar still doesn't have this as a selection :(
― sleeve, Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
woke up still playing this in my head on Saturday
― lol kudso (sic), Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know much about how twitter works since i do not have one but i read somewhere that whoever owns it changed the account name once rb got big
in any case, the ark page said at one point that she did not have any official facebook/twitter/etc, until they put up her (sadly quite boring) @REBECCAFANCLUB twitter page
― teledyldonix, Saturday, 19 March 2011 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Let it be noted that the actual lyric is "my friend is by my right", which isn't even "here's my friend!" but is more "i have a friend in the general vicinity of this side of me"
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 19 March 2011 01:13 (thirteen years ago) link
#awkwardphrasin011
I lol'd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDKoXTEU8Vo
― dayo, Saturday, 19 March 2011 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Naw, it's enjambed:
"I see my friends kickin' in the front seat, si'in' in the back seat"
The whole damn thing is just so harebrained that it's hard to let yourself register that the writers had a thought that sustained itself over a whole line break.
― relentlessly ugly frat hedonist retard anthems I have loved (staggerlee), Saturday, 19 March 2011 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't buy the bus thing - if it were truly a bus, "front seat" and "back seat" would be plural, since there are multiple front seats and multiple back seats in a bus
― dayo, Saturday, 19 March 2011 02:22 (thirteen years ago) link
plus cool kids would never sit in the front seat on a school bus.
― there should be more "asses" threads imo (Pillbox), Saturday, 19 March 2011 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Bus driver would kick u off for kicking in the backseat btw
― VegemiteGrrl, Saturday, 19 March 2011 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
RB's friends are cool?
― some dude, Saturday, 19 March 2011 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
kickin' in the front seatsittin' in the back seatemergency exit seat wheel well cramped seatthe one with a cigarette hole in the fabricgum underneath it, no way I'm'a grab itbehind the driver, he smells like garlicWHICH SEAT CAN I TAKE?
― relentlessly ugly frat hedonist retard anthems I have loved (staggerlee), Saturday, 19 March 2011 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Full length drops in December... of 2012.
― Spectrist, Saturday, 19 March 2011 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
er, more precisely, the day
― yeah (kelpolaris), Saturday, 19 March 2011 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
just in time for Xmas and the apocalypse
― kate78, Saturday, 19 March 2011 02:58 (thirteen years ago) link