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

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

so great - Tarik puts Pato's rap into a whole other realm, lol

anyways, it's now at 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 (up from 72 last week), 38 on the Digital chart (up from 57), and 12 on the Social 50 (down from 9).

What's weird to me is how popular this is while being (relatively) low-charting. Anyone know what's number one right now, off the top of your head?

What's weird to me is how popular this is while being (relatively) low-charting.

It's 2011 dawg, "popular" <> charts.

82,751,513 views

man, Alana Lee's "Butterflies" (which I stan for) is getting robbed. it no longer shows up in "Friday"s related videos pane, and it it doesn't even appear on the first page when you search youtube for "alana lee butterflies". it's all because she changed her stage name to Alana Lee Hamilton to avoid being confused with the pornstar Alana Lee, best known for her youtube video "Alana Lee fucks a big black cock".

the music industry is so unfair :'-(

lmaooooo

What's weird to me is how popular this is while being (relatively) low-charting.

It's 2011 dawg, "popular" <> charts.

― City of Jorts (Steve Shasta), Monday, April 4, 2011 6:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

it's Billboard, dawgs, downloads only get you so high on the charts without airplay

wish we could fit all that in the board description

http://thumbs.onlybestsex.com/stars/Alanna_Lee.jpg

also the sales for this song are impressive for an internet meme 'bad song,' not by any other standard

It would be a pretty big hit for, like, Superchunk.

"downloads", "charts"...

let me just repost this for you dinosaurs:

82,751,513 views
― Milton Parker, Monday, April 4, 2011 3:39 PM (1 hour ago)

83,109,914

yeah, Superchunk videos get 350k+ hits every 80 minutes...

and it's only MONDAY!

just wait until...

the 'social 50' chart that she's at #13 on is measured purely in YouTube, Facebook, etc.. she's got a LOT of views on YouTube in the last couple weeks but the collective videographies of Bieber and Gaga probably have more.

gonna assume that 90% of the downloads are from the ~youtube generation~ of kids (same under 16 sort that makes conscious and well thought out efforts to post youtube comments), so it strikes me as a bit weird that this is actually being sold on such a huge-scale (considering kidz these dayz have likely never bought a CD in their lives)

i mean i bet rebecca's been robbed of at least the entire US deficit w/ the number of times this has been pulled from limewire or whatever the hell the under 16 crowd uses to download music.

well, the ultimate chart (which got some minimal media coverage when it came out because it kind of goes a long way beyond billboard when it comes to streaming and social media) has "friday" at #8 this week, down one from #7 when it debuted last week. its "online watching and listening" score is 100, meaning it's the highest among all songs currently. its sales score is 6 and its radio score is 0.4

that chart, btw, rarely looks very different from the billboard hot 100, with the exception of huge youtube hits being placed much higher and lasting much longer ("waka waka" by shakira was a top 10 hit on that chart for example)

I don't have time to take you to task somedude but here's some data for you to chew on:

Bieber's #1 video "Baby" has 500M hits over 14+months (avg: ~35M views per month)
RB Rebecca Black has 83M hits in <2 months (avg ~42M views per month)

Granted "Friday" doesn't have the promotion/media billions thrown into Bieber's marketing campaigns, and w/o certainty "Friday" will fall off current trend in 14 months but for now... you're kidding yourself if you think that she's any less popular than Bieber or Gaga right now.

wtf is fuck you still doing on any chart anywhere

i dunno dudes you guys are talking about RB like this whole thing is no different than any other pop hit. it's mostly funny because of the video, so OF COURSE the iTunes sales are not going to correlate to the YouTube hits the way they would for other songs, even if the sales are somewhat surprising for a meme.

xp apparently fuck you is #1 in airplay right now: http://www.billboard.com/charts/radio-songs

yeah it's had a kind of weird surge of renewed popularity in the last few weeks, even starting to hear it on R&B stations now

gonna assume that 90% of the downloads are from the ~youtube generation~ of kids (same under 16 sort that makes conscious and well thought out efforts to post youtube comments), so it strikes me as a bit weird that this is actually being sold on such a huge-scale (considering kidz these dayz have likely never bought a CD in their lives)

i mean i bet rebecca's been robbed of at least the entire US deficit w/ the number of times this has been pulled from limewire or whatever the hell the under 16 crowd uses to download music.

― kelpolaris, Monday, April 4, 2011 8:02 PM (1 hour ago)

it doesn't seem weird to me. iTunes gift cards are pretty much the default birthday gift for t(w)eens these days, and they have to use them on something, right? plus I'll bet there are loads of 12-year-olds (as opposed to, say, 17-year-olds) who buy mp3s with their own money because they haven't yet been exposed to the evils of that new Napster thingy. squeaky clean folk hero Rebecca Black doesn't really appeal to file-sharers, who are likely to sneer at her (and Justin Bieber, and Disney pop) while they download edgier shit like Paramore.

but those people really matter, because there are plenty of innocent, law-abiding kiddies who are flipping out over "Friday" and throwing their $$$$$ (or their parents' $$$$$) in Ark's direction. I mean if you program a computer to write music for the target demographic of "kids who actually pay for music", it'll take all of 2 milliseconds to spit out something like, "gotta have a bowl, gotta have cereal," bleep bleep bloop you're rich.

(oops, I mean, "those people don't really matter." good lord I can't type lately)