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

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

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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.

Otherwise, she'd just be doing early Pavement.

Not saying I like it (although I didn't like Pavement either for a long time).xps

is she Jandek's daughter?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv-cPY0Bel4

Devil fest

It's almost as if she's never heard singing before until someone described the act of singing to her and she decided to take a stab at it based upon that description.

If this wasn't produced/presented the way it was, I think the response would be less bafflement and more praise. The YT algorithm showed me Wuthering Heights immediately afterword, and I think the algorithm is on to something.

Obviously Kate Bush is a much better singer! Just to be clear

this is certainly a way to stand out amongst other youtube folksingers

seems like she knows what shes doing, and it isn't a parody

Her Covid song is a bit more standard, but when she sings an off note she makes a puzzled face, as if to say, "Isn't this quirky?"

She's playing standard chords on her guitar, so she's not quite some unschooled savant.