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

we're both right. he was born in south africa and moved to eastern europe at age 17.

http://starcasm.net/archives/90562

https://s-hphotos-snc6.fbcdn.net/193092_10150119385787282_718752281_6945484_3594523_o.jpg

As the Lone Groover used to say, "ah, but who wrote the Cliches?"

Bad idea, Ark.

They just removed the original video from youtube and closed that account.

I assume they're upgrading or something, but that was a piece of internet history!

I mean, unless they worked out a deal with youtube to transfer viewership stats over to the video whenever it gets reposted, I feel like one of Ark's greatest achievements has just been vaporized. We'll never know how many views the original video would've gotten.

Plus, thousands of youtube links/embeds just went dead and useless.

Fuck you, Ark.

Won't someone please think of the embeds?!

is this over yet

haha shakey

best part is 0:45-0:50. love the awkwardness

Bad idea, Ark.

They just removed the original video from youtube and closed that account.

I assume they're upgrading or something, but that was a piece of internet history!

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, March 29, 2011 7:24 PM (44 minutes ago)

removed what video? I don't get it.

Well it's back now. hm

An hour ago, it said the video had been deleted by the user (trizzy66) and the user's account was inactive.

shady dealings, it sounds like.

did anyone mention that "Friday" debuted at #72 on the real Billboard Hot 100 this week? last week it placed on Billboard's digital chart, but it didn't seem real back then, it seemed like a dream.

also sometime tonight it beat "Chocolate Rain"s view count. a part of me wants to cheer her on, but another part of me feels so bad for Tay Zonday. in the modern era, I bet he would've ripped that shit up on the pop charts.

Well it's back now. hm

An hour ago, it said the video had been deleted by the user (trizzy66) and the user's account was inactive.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:14 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

I think youtube is just having issues atm. My subscriptions page is down, most videos say that "safety mode" is hiding the comments etc.

Meantime:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/03/patrice-wilson-of-ark-music-friday-is-on-his-mind.html

Raised in Africa by a minister mother and a chemical engineer father, Wilson sang in his mother's church as a child and helped out with youth programs at the local Christian school. Later, he says, he attended medical school in Europe and trained in track and field events for the 2000 Olympics. But he dropped it all in pursuit of his music, an endeavor that would lead him to tour as a backup singer with Eastern European pop star Ibrahim Maiga, to study the business side of entertainment at Whitman College in Walla Walla, and, finally, to come to Hollywood.

“If you're going to try to make a dream in music happen, Los Angeles is where you need to be,” he says. “If your music is heard in America, it will be heard everywhere.”

did anyone mention that "Friday" debuted at #72 on the real Billboard Hot 100 this week? last week it placed on Billboard's digital chart, but it didn't seem real back then, it seemed like a dream.

yup. i thought it would be a one-week wonder chart-wise, but actually the song is likely to go even higher on the hot 100 this week. the song made another rapid ascent up the itunes sales charts this past friday and actually peaked higher than it had the previous week. i'm not sure whether the surge in sales had more to do with the recent tv promotion (jay leno and such) or simply the fact that it was friday, lol

It's at #62 on the UK chart at the moment.

Wake me when Gang Fight cracks the charts

Only played it twice so far, but I'm finding "Friday" pretty catchy in an annoying sort of way. I'll definitely give it a third listen, at least, and maybe more depending how my opinion evolves.

(And yeah, I like "Gang Fight" better too.)

Forward into the future!

http://popdust.com/2011/03/30/rebecca-black-new-single-album/

"I call them negative Nancies."
^will totally cosign this as a replacement for "haters"
Nancies Gonna Neg

New song LOL is in a similar vein, with the chorus, "BFF you make me LOL", meaning best friend forever you make me laugh out loud.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/3492349/Bullies-hurt-me-and-I-cried-Im-only-13-But-now-Im-working-on-an-album-to-prove-them-wrong.html

that url is a masterpiece.

OMG @ THAT URL

URL you make me LOL

so the track sold 50k in america this past week

http://www.billboard.com/news/chris-brown-nets-first-no-1-album-on-billboard-1005100762.story

For those wondering if Rebecca Black's "Friday" moment in the sun has passed -- it hasn't. The tune rises 57-38 on Digital Songs with 50,000 sold (up 35%).

"I call them negative Nancies."
^will totally cosign this as a replacement for "haters"
Nancies Gonna Neg

http://media.photobucket.com/image/nancy%20comic/MannBear/Nancy.jpg

ZS get on this stat

New song LOL is in a similar vein, with the chorus, "BFF you make me LOL", meaning best friend forever you make me laugh out loud.

it's no "IM me" by brittney cleary!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ke0w8n

oh oh I think I'm having a nostalgia attack. that fucking song!

brb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psF0xsdfJso

or better yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr5QTUYiL3M

Hey, is this song getting radio play?

i don't think ark music factory has enough money for payola

according to a Billboard article linked upthread "Friday" got virtually no radio spins (12, to be exact) the first week it sold a ton of downloads, don't know if that changed at all in the past week: Top 100 moments in Rebecca Black's "Friday" music video

I bet it's getting play at least on morning-zoo shows, for lols.

I think those 12 spins are referring to the entire song getting played without annoying radio dudes laughing over it.

Her next song is called "LOL."

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

New song LOL is in a similar vein, with the chorus, "BFF you make me LOL", meaning best friend forever you make me laugh out loud.

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

I know that was posted already!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7H12V97ZOI

They will be doing the song an injustice to invest more than $2000 into the next video.

Friday's much-mocked lyrics include the teenage dilemma of where to sit in a convertible car with your friends on the drive to school.

No, that's what the video is about.. The lyrics are about the schoolbus.

You know, for a long time I thought BFF was some sort of acronym for "Friend with Benefits"

You can imagine what I thought Paris Hilton's eventual prize on offer was for that TV show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsPrE4NCnA4

Forgive me for waving my nerd flag but DOCTOR THADDEUS VENTURE recites Friday!!!!!!!

:D

Neil Young is next

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/379370/march-30-2011/stephen-practices-rebecca-black-s--friday-

I just saw "Gang Fight" for the first time, lol