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

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/09/entertainment/rebecca-black-queer/index.html

Rebecca says she don't gotta make her mind up.

Publishing that piece on a Thursday was such a faux pas.

https://player.fm/series/slates-culture-gabfest/decoder-ring-gotta-get-down-on-friday

She's back...

Dorian Electra enlists Rebecca Black for new song and video | new project My Agenda out 10/16

Today, Pop-music-agitator Dorian Electra (pronouns:they/them/theirs) releases "Edgelord" featuring Rebecca Black. The track is from Dorian Electra’s forthcoming project My Agenda out October 16th.

Written by Dorian Electra, Rebecca Black, umru, Weston Allen and Full Tac, the track explores internet trolls in full force and the cloak of anonymity they hide behind. In Dorian fashion the visuals show them take on multiple characters including a furry and The Joker, highlighting the different masks trolls hide behind for safety. Whilst Rebecca Black references her debut single "Friday" as she sits in the back seat on her way to wreak havoc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsjqnYbsDO4&feature=youtu.be

"Friday" was terrible and yet still better than this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsjqnYbsDO4

Edgelord.

...

Edgelord.

was kind of hoping her "comeback single" would not be an overt reference to Friday but here we are

this song is god awful

"friday" was amazing

I'm so disappointed that no one (afaict) has ever done a mashup of Rebecca Black and Murray Saul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhqp0XL0lkA

Fun fun fun fun

10 years l8r... out 2nite at midnight @MsRebeccaBlack @bigfreedia @3OH3 prod. @dylanbrady pic.twitter.com/gNo9UWZy4w

— DORIAN ELECTRA🗡My Agenda💿Out Now🎵 (@DORIANELECTRA) February 9, 2021

*checking the calendar*

what the FUCK

Friday (Remix) music video is here. directed by @westonallen64 + feat @DORIANELECTRA, @bigfreedia & @3OH3 https://t.co/RRKJaXwE72 pic.twitter.com/QDjDWQFO0D

— Rebecca Black (@MsRebeccaBlack) February 10, 2021

this fuckin blows. you can't do "so bad it's good" if that was the entire intention

happy Friday y'all

did she ever decide what seat 2 take

Kinda obsessed, some sort of genius microtonal trolling? idk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sN7kgEw954

SAY YOU LOVE SATAN

kinda sounds like buffy saint marie if she sat down in an office chair and spun around like 50+ times really fast and then had to sing this song

Omg rong thread

marisa was a prophet

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

she also has drone videos of herself doing yoga on a mountain

This might legitimately be the worst singing I've ever heard. Like fascinatingly so.

What key is that vocal melody in? Q flat?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kfVskTOsWw

Man, her friends are assholes. You're really just gonna keep letting her do this and never tell her?

whaaaaat

📹

Her phrasing is good!

She's a puzzle

I cry hoax, she can actually sing but chooses to hit the wrong notes. Genuinely shit singers are more droningly flat.

i really love the bizarre camera work in the "red dress" video, those moments when it suddenly speeds up

She's no Mark Gormley.

She directed this too. That could be her main thing. But then again she took the trouble to put the song on Spotify. Her campus tour video is a liiittle bit goofy. But I can't really see anything that suggests she's joking with the singing. She's surely seen many comments that she's not good at it. I wonder if she'd want to hang out.

I get the same vibe from those melodyne derived Youtube videos where they knock the vocal melody of 'Africa' out by one semitone.

a little Spotify sleuthing turns up what appears to be her personal playlists, featuring, among many others.....that's right, gaz coombes. the mystery deepens

I feel like I need a 20m Adam Neely video unpacking this.

Oh, I just realized what this reminds me of

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

The chorus of Red Dress is a straight rip of something but I can't think what it is.

shotgun?

sounds like a lot of pop country choruses, maybe some "Wildest Dreams" in there

Yes, it's Shotgun!

Thanks, Calumerio.

She's an MA student at Oxford who "conduct[ s ] quantitative research on the intersection of religion and politics": https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-brand-501595188/

The recording and engineering quality definitely suggests that digital pitch correction could have been applied if it was desired. My speculative hypothesis is she's not trolling but not lacking in self-awareness. She doesn't have singing chops but feels that shouldn't stop someone, out of a version of indie/punk-like aesthetic principles; all the online haters make her more resolved to do her thing and actually prove her message. She wants to make an anti-Christianity/pro-sex/anti-conformity statement and this kind of out-of-tune indie-country is what she sees as her innovation.

I feel like if you asked her then she would say this is part of her singing style, like Kate Bush or sth

That's my theory too, with the caveat that I don't believe she would be able to sing conventionally if she had to.

Did IceJJFish turn out to be real or a joke in the end?

Why not put the instruments out-of-tune too, if she's trying to make that statement? Why not go fully atonal?

I mean, I'm just throwing darts but tbf this way of doing it does highlight the dissonance of her vs the group, which is also the message of the song.

Cause she's making an uncanny-valley, gentle tweak to the conventions of the genre?

Man, we should get on Linked In and invite her to the thread.