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

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.

[citation needed]

i was 13 this man is 36 https://t.co/a7Hxtaxi9W

— Rebecca Black (@MsRebeccaBlack) January 6, 2023

Not a hot tip I was expecting to drop, but Rebecca's new album Let Her Burn (great title) is really, really, fun. Feels like she and her people have listened intently to all of the moderately adventurous female-fronted pop music of the last few years, and then set out to pay tribute to as much of it as possible in (an admirably focused) thirty minutes. So while the lead single sounds like Midnights meets Ariana Grande other than a pseudo-industrial breakdown near the end, there is also a 2-step garage track, a track that gestures towards hyperpop, a lesbian love song that is basically a rewrite of The 1975's "Somebody Else", a song that sounds like The Strokes by way of Olivia Rodrigo, and a (charmingl) imagining of Poppy making drum and bass track appropriately titled "Destroy Me", which is worth linking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qA23jMionY

I also enjoy Rebecca's switches between unvarnished talky and breathy high vocals, very familiar in this post Camilla Cabello world, but still very successful I think.

I forgot to mention there's a track that sounds like Phoebe Bridgers, because of there is.

lmao 'destroy me' has almost the same 'whoa!' sounds as Smack My Bitch Up :D (they're 'hey' here i think but same effect)

I think it’s actually a “Firestarter” reference? But yes absolutely, and that little trick feels like a meme I have heard across a bunch of recent tunes pop and otherwise.

(To cross-pollinate current threads, “Us Ephemeral” uses “Go!” in the same way)

to continue that cross-pollination, if big beat is truly coming back, that is one nostalgia i will not stand in the way of