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

i know people DO kind of like it now (including me!) and have bought it on iTunes and stuff. but that doesn't change the fact that it's objectively terrible and that's the whole reason it's famous.

kinda like Mambo No. 5?

or Who Let the Dogs Out?

the only novel thing about this isn't that it's terrible (looooooong history of terribly made garbage hitting the charts) it's how it got there - the pay-to-play scheme, the internet marketing etc

I would argue that both "Mambo #5" and "Who Let the Dogs Out" are much, much better than "Friday", not least because they seem to have been written by people who understood English sentence construction and they were not sung by the human equivalent of yippy pug.

okay how about the Thong Song

I said it already but will repeat: Friday is not only not a good song, it's not even bad enough to be interesting. It's bland and meh and I can totally believe it originated on Tosh (though i don't think that's right?); it's just earwormy.

Shakey, try picking a song that is actually dislikable

haha um okay what was Ashley Simpson's biggest hit

i would say:
Thong Song > Mambo No. 5 > Friday > Who Let the Dogs Out

Some legal weirdness in that article -- (1) it's not really a contentious point of copyright law that owning the master is not the same thing as owning the composition so what's the dispute surrounding that? Is it unclear who actually wrote the song? OTOH (2) the ark lawyer's statement that the agreement is "not court-approved" is perplexing -- recording contracts need court approval?

It's also all very funny, since it's the rare case where the artist really owes most of her success to the record label/producers and yet it's the record label who got screwed by the contract.

"Pieces of Me" was Ashlee's biggest hit, and that wasn't as bad as some of her other songs ("La La" was completely unbearable, for example)

not nearly as good as thong song

few songs considered novelty or one-hit-wonders are as good as "The Thong Song"

like, I have to start pulling out super-sentimental/important-to-me-and-me-alone shit like "Let's Go All The Way" and "I Wanna Be A Cowboy"

PICK THE BEST SONG: "Friday" vs. "Mambo No. 5" vs. "Who Let the Dogs Out" vs. "Thong Song" vs. "Pieces of Me"

^ only one fair way to settle this, imo

oh it probably doesn't count but "Calabria" is full on bad-ass

http://www.funnyordie.com/rebecca_black

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti1D9t8n0qA

the only novel thing about this isn't that it's terrible (looooooong history of terribly made garbage hitting the charts) it's how it got there - the pay-to-play scheme, the internet marketing etc

― in my world of loose geirs (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, April 1, 2011 3:54 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark

what 'pay-to-play scheme'? i mean the whole Ark thing is a little unusual but a singer paying people to write/produce material for them is not in an of itself novel.

I suppose that's true, it's more the nature of this particular ARK outfit, catering to vanity projects of the idle rich etc.

catering to vanity projects of the idle rich

similaries to so many major-label artists it's ridiculous but we may not wanna start...

lol yeah you guys are right I guess - I'm not sure what differentiates this from, say, that song by Will Smith's kid, for example

paris hilton! lindsey lohan! etc etc.

they were all famous before they made records, for one

also people actually unironically like "Whip My Hair"

When Black's "Friday" comes
I'll stand down by the door
And catch ILXors when they
Dive from the fourteenth floor

I finally watched/listened to "Friday" for the first time.
I can't believe a dude did all that work to make "Friday (In Hell)".
Okay, I'm done with this thread. 8 minutes is enough.

she's from Jersey right?

the miracle of "Friday" is that it possesses all the qualities that rockists like to complain about and popists like to defend ― gratuitous autotune, a singer who didn't spend years practicing and suffering before she rose to fame, brainless assembly-line songwriting, an inherent joylessness, etc. ― but it takes those qualities to such ridiculous extremes that even the most ardent popists can poke fun it without feeling guilty of betraying their values. and even though it's a vanity project, it's a reasonable imitation of a major label pop production, and therefore people can use it as a stand-in for all the pop music that they inwardly despite but are afraid to condemn for fear of outing themselves as rockist indie snobs.

(tbf when I call the song ridiculous, I don't necc. mean it's bad. I actually kinda like it...)

When Black's "Friday" comes
I'll stand down by the door
And catch ILXors when they
Dive from the fourteenth floor

― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Friday, April 1, 2011 5:05 PM Bookmark

When Rebecca Black's Friday comes
I'll stand down by the door
And catch the listeners when they dive from the fourteenth floor

― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Monday, March 14, 2011 4:32 PM Bookmark

whoops, sorry

can't be posted enuff imo

I'm about to go to a grade school father-daughter dance, what are the odds I hear this to-ni-eee-ight

Have fun!

(...funfunfun)

be with your FRANS

Only if your FRANS have daughters too, or that'd be weird.

lol yeah

the frans experiment

http://honorofgod.org/blog3/?p=1874

Two centuries ago, France’s experiment with expelling God and worshipping Reason ended in a sea of blood

the FRAENS experiment

― *emergency alternative display name (Pillbox), Friday, March 18, 2011 4:40 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

the Franz experiment (poor Hans was never the same)

you laugh but that's the greatest name ever for a pop sellout record

Okay since its stupid NBC I can't embed the video right now, but Colbert sang this with The Roots tonight on Jimmy Fallon.

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs/2011/04/stephen-colbert-sings-friday-with-the-roots/

Okay even with Taylor Hicks doing his best to ruin it with his goddamn harmonica, I smiled.

AND IT WAS AWESOME

Yeah, I kinda feel like this was the perfect way to kill off the meme.

the miracle of "Friday" is that it possesses all the qualities that rockists like to complain about and popists like to defend ― gratuitous autotune, a singer who didn't spend years practicing and suffering before she rose to fame, brainless assembly-line songwriting, an inherent joylessness, etc. ― but it takes those qualities to such ridiculous extremes that even the most ardent popists can poke fun it without feeling guilty of betraying their values. and even though it's a vanity project, it's a reasonable imitation of a major label pop production, and therefore people can use it as a stand-in for all the pop music that they inwardly despite but are afraid to condemn for fear of outing themselves as rockist indie snobs.

― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Friday, April 1, 2011 10:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

(tbf when I call the song ridiculous, I don't necc. mean it's bad. I actually kinda like it...)

― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Friday, April 1, 2011 10:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i love this. ty