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

oh thank god, I thought I maybe was patient zero for a new variant with COVID ears symptoms

oh thank god, I thought I maybe was patient zero for a new variant with COVID ears symptoms

oh thank god, I thought I maybe was patient zero for a new variant with COVID ears symptoms

This is the funniest fucking thing

I only sent that once

oh thank god, I thought I maybe was patient zero for a new variant with COVID triple vision symptoms

Microtonal vision is a thing.

lol xp

Lyrics on this are also really, impressively bad. I vote calculated effort to go viral. And good on her.

The only thing about this that even hints at calculation is that I'd think an Oxford grad student would generally have a better notion of how words go together.

her thesis is on five dimensional chess

Which could it be:

Calculated avant-garde exercise or wealthy person without self-awareness or talent

Hmm, we'll never know.

I can't imagine another board with people trying to do the required mental gymnastics to turn the latter into the former though. Sometimes bad is just bad.

https://artinfiction.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/asc-3a.jpg

This song's proponents have iirc all said they like it because of the pleasure of hearing it

I probably slightly prefer the pleasure of thinking and talking about it.

xpost - Fine, then I'll amend my post to say I'm completely lost as to how anyone could find pleasure in anything about that song.

The tang of unusual tonal harmonies within a pop-country context is pretty irresistible, what can I say

this song is A+, it's clearly intentional and it is not easy to be off key on every single note.

^ would've been agreed upon already if this board wasn't almost entirely people over 30

it being bait, that is

another Sarah Brand rapidly updates her profile...

https://twitter.com/sarahgailbrand?s=20

this song is A+, it's clearly intentional and it is not easy to be off key on every single note.

― akm, Wednesday, July 28, 2021 10:34 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sure, sure. I will believe this when she releases the song where she is on key on every single note.

Green Templeton College obviously think any publicity's good publicity:

https://www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/sarah-brand-fantasy-music-video/

it was manifestly obvious on the first listen that it was deliberate. she is hitting the same notes over and over again

It's totally possible to be off key on every note, esp if you make certain (common) errors in vocal technique. (See for reference: any group not made up of professional singers singing "Happy Birthday"). I think Brand is probably genuinely limited as a singer. I just think it's more likely to be a case of accepting it and running with it than of massive self-delusion. Not sure what the basis is for assuming she's exceptionally wealthy, either.

Should have called herself Sarah Off-Brand.

Hey guys is this where I sign up for the three-day symposium on the works of Sarah Brand, also can I get a list of featured speakers

Moondog, Daniel Johnson, Schoenberg, Rebecca Black, Pitbull

Not Daniel Johnston. The real heads know Daniel Johnson is where it's at.

surely this deserves its own thread

yeah this thread is for Rebecca Black news and updates only

Sarah Brand

^ would've been agreed upon already if this board wasn't almost entirely people over 30

I'm almost 50!

it was manifestly obvious on the first listen that it was deliberate. she is hitting the same notes over and over again

― imago, Wednesday, July 28, 2021 11:10 AM bookmarkflaglink

doesn't really prove anything tbh - one can be off-key in a consistent way without intentionally doing so. I have a friend who for some reason can never find the correct key for "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" at karaoke night and she consistently sings the same wrong notes, but she's not trying to! and she's a legit singer.

what am i doin' heeeeeeeee(*earth tilts off its axis and spins into infinite darkness*)eeeeeeeeeere

the other thing is she wrote the song, and there are definitely people that can mimic other people's songs, but can't actually tell that what they're writing doesn't fit the key they're in. also people who aren't used to using melisma and don't have a good ear often melisma into Allan Holdsworth territory

FYI: This is the holiday classic "It's Thanksgiving" by Nicole Westbrook, produced by the same "music factory" as Rebecca Black's "Friday" https://t.co/mEFM93NWbC

— Sam Gavin (@samgavinLA) November 24, 2022

Thanksgiving in the back seat
Thanksgiving in the front seat

"Nothing is fo-bidden" Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

And I like how she covers other holidays.

I like how she sings into the turkey leg toward the end.

(Why does the song only mention turkey and mashed potatoes? Seems like there are a lot of other dishes that could’ve been name-checked…)

I don't get no respect.

Thanksgiving music?

We definitely talked about “It’s Thanksgiving”, I think on this thread years ago

I scrolled up and lolled again at “My family owns an airport there”

i do always revisit "it's thanksgiving". a classic

It’s the time of year when everyone has rubs smelling up their cribs

Did dude take down the song where he said “they call me fat fat fat fat Usher”

i hope so, that was so embarrassing

RIP CJ Fam

in the end you just can't autotune the pain of a dying child.