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

^ 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

even cj fam isn't an ark music factory 'exclusive artist,' wow!

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.

This.

i'm really hoping Sleep record a cover of this that is 35 minutes long that goes at like 30 bpm

re that point, 30 min version prob linked upthread but if not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jUtYVm3MzA

Friday IN HELL is genuinely scary.

Wow, that is great!

holy shit, wau

There's an audiolink way upthread but combining it with the video like that = FEAR.

That long note at roughly 13:05 transcends time and space.

Like, what else would you possibly do at the bus stop?

cmon, you know!

Finally watched. Her vowels are truly awful, on "paaaaertyin" esp, but this horrible thing is no worse than a lot of yr beloved pop princesses, and "We so excited" is no more subliterate than... OK, I'll stop.

I assume somebody posted Colbert's version.

I guess not!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU1v_XKgEPc

jon via chicago posted it

yeah, i see now. Fallon still a pain.

I'd probably have been happier w/ just Colbert and the Roots, but that's still pretty awesome.

holy shit that is awesome