https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
1. The way she has a frowny pooping sun written on the Thursday page of her planner
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
2. and that she then wrote "Hooray!" on Friday
3. she picked a very nice note to sing and was v wise in not straying far from it
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
4. "with chicken on it, on everybody's Russian"
5. the redundancy of "Gotta get down to the bus stop" followed immediately by "gotta catch the bus". Like, what else would you possibly do at the bus stop?
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
6. ...except for FRIENDS ROLLIN UP!!! Which seat is she gonna take??!?
7. Why the fuck are you standing up in the back of a car that is driving down the highway? I can't even.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
8. FYI when today is Friday, tomorrow is Saturday, and Sunday comes afterwards.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
9. Yesterday was Thursday
― Buff Orpington (Abbbottt), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
10. TGI Friday's marketing ppl, did you hear this?>?
― Buff Orpington (Abbbottt), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
11. there's this moment around 2:53 that makes me feel like Kristen Bell and NatPo fucked and then had a baby and that baby grew up and then fucked the Bird Lady from KitH and then that baby reached adolescence, and then made this music video.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
12. beats a level of Super Mario World at 0:44
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:39 (thirteen years ago) link
13. bowl/seery-ohl
― Buff Orpington (Abbbottt), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
14. Green screen halo on the way to the full moon prom
― Buff Orpington (Abbbottt), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link
15. how obnoxiously she enunciates the "r" sound in "partying"
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link
16. featured rapper going "R! B! REBECCA BLACK!"
― teledyldonix, Sunday, 13 March 2011 09:34 (thirteen years ago) link
17. boy in the back seat beckoning
― teledyldonix, Sunday, 13 March 2011 09:37 (thirteen years ago) link
THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS TO MY ATTN, this is definitely the best
18. Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun!
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Sunday, 13 March 2011 12:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i55.tinypic.com/30avti8.jpg
― oppet, Sunday, 13 March 2011 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I do feel a bit sorry for this girl, possibly.
― oppet, Sunday, 13 March 2011 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
So certain it was a (solid) parody that I was ready to mock people who fell for it, but after reading about the guys behind it I'm stunned. Still, I'm sure someone is taking the piss at some level, even if they do it in a cynical money-grabbing way.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 13 March 2011 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
It's easy to imagine she's singing about fried egg.
― bendy, Sunday, 13 March 2011 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
19. The rapper's smugface at 3:25
I'm surprised it took so long for a business like this to spring up. When people are dropping $300k on a party or $150k on a car for their little cherubs, getting them to fork out a few grand for a music video seems like a potentially profitable venture. Ultimately, it's just an updated, super-rich, version of the customised books you got when you were ten that had your name / photo in the story.
Of course, you could argue that a few of the legit pop stars around at the moment didn't have a particularly different route to fame.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 13 March 2011 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
20. Underage driving
― BLOOMPS 2012 (rip van wanko), Sunday, 13 March 2011 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DwT_2QQU64
There does come a point when it's slightly creepy. 2:25 is solid gold though.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 13 March 2011 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, kinda struggling to find a meaningful, useful difference between these and, e.g., Ke$ha, who is equally as retarded and equally manufactured but doesn't have the excuse of age or ambitious stage parents. It's razor-thin line between "Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy" and "Hannah Montana is wearing my jeans."
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Sunday, 13 March 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
21. Not wearing seatbelts because it could get in the way of "FUN FUN FUN".
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
22. Shading the girl on her left by singing "my friend is by my right".
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
23. The puzzling omission of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
― Mark, Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought this was real until it got to the bridge
― Whiney On The Goon (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
A dramatic reading of Rebecca Black’s “Friday”
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
what does "real" mean in this context?
― Mark, Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^^^^^
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhzhamfLq01qfqhot.jpg
<3
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
So certain it was a (solid) parody that I was ready to mock people who fell for it, but after reading about the guys behind it I'm stunned.
When I first saw this I thought 'it's like some totally regular and unremarkable kid got a wish granted somehow to be a pop video artist' and...I was right.
― Buff Orpington (Abbbottt), Sunday, 13 March 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
24. the first few comments (pre-"fame") on the video from users that COINCIDENTALLY joined youtube the same day this video was posted, including:
"Song is fun, very upbeat and age appropriate. Catchy tune. Singer has a powerful voice with great range. Harmonies show off her ability. She demonstrates great confidence."
"I like this video and this song! Hey, who doesn't look forward to Friday and the weekend? These kids have it right. And she can hit some diva notes!"
― teledyldonix, Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I haven't posted in--literally--ages, but as soon as I sat down and properly watched this I had to come see what ILX had to say about it.
I really love the rap feature. "Tina? You know a black dude, right?" "Uh. Yeah, Rebecca. Why...?"
― Andrew Kornfan, Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe this is a stretch, but this whole idea seems like an outgrowth of the fact that the rich in the U.S. have gotten so much richer. The top 1% has more money than they know what to do with so they pay $50k or whatever something like this costs to have their kids be pop stars. Within a day or two this will have a million views. Crazy times.
― Mark, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Pick a parody/reinterpretation, any parody/reinterpretation:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rebecca+black+friday&aq=f
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Personally I'm all about this, but I would be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1M5Q3onsX4
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
^ this is probably better than anything Kevin Shields might ever deign to release
― corey, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
She should change her name to Rebecca Black Friday, or maybe just Black Friday.
― Mark, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Hard to beat this one as far as passionate delivery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EdUUMdcUYU
― Mark, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
25. How she can get up at 07:00 and still straighten her hair in time for school.
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
The happy hardcore version resulting here rules:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cazsLHi9fI
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
"Yesterday was Thirsty, Thirsty/Today it's Fried Eggs, Fried Eggs"
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/bnkcX.jpg
― prolego, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
1. omg2. ...how does this thing manage to be an actual earworm >:(
― lex pretend, Sunday, 13 March 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
lol xp
― StanM, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 12:16 (two years ago) link
Lyrics on this are also really, impressively bad. I vote calculated effort to go viral. And good on her.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 12:23 (two years ago) link
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.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 12:46 (two years ago) link
her thesis is on five dimensional chess
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link
Which could it be:
Calculated avant-garde exercise or wealthy person without self-awareness or talent
Hmm, we'll never know.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 13:15 (two years ago) link
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.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
https://artinfiction.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/asc-3a.jpg
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 13:46 (two years ago) link
This song's proponents have iirc all said they like it because of the pleasure of hearing it
― imago, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
I probably slightly prefer the pleasure of thinking and talking about it.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
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.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
The tang of unusual tonal harmonies within a pop-country context is pretty irresistible, what can I say
― imago, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:30 (two years ago) link
this song is A+, it's clearly intentional and it is not easy to be off key on every single note.
― akm, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
^ would've been agreed upon already if this board wasn't almost entirely people over 30
― ri, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
it being bait, that is
― ri, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:48 (two years ago) link
another Sarah Brand rapidly updates her profile...
https://twitter.com/sarahgailbrand?s=20
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
― 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.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
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/
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
it was manifestly obvious on the first listen that it was deliberate. she is hitting the same notes over and over again
― imago, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
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.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
Should have called herself Sarah Off-Brand.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:15 (two years ago) link
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
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
Moondog, Daniel Johnson, Schoenberg, Rebecca Black, Pitbull
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:35 (two years ago) link
Not Daniel Johnston. The real heads know Daniel Johnson is where it's at.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:40 (two years ago) link
surely this deserves its own thread
― sleeve, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
yeah this thread is for Rebecca Black news and updates only
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:48 (two years ago) link
Sarah Brand
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
I'm almost 50!
― akm, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 16:23 (two years ago) link
― 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.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
what am i doin' heeeeeeeee(*earth tilts off its axis and spins into infinite darkness*)eeeeeeeeeere
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
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
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
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
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Thursday, 24 November 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link
Thanksgiving in the back seatThanksgiving in the front seat
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 November 2022 23:14 (one year ago) link
"Nothing is fo-bidden" Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
And I like how she covers other holidays.
― nickn, Thursday, 24 November 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link
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…)
― "Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Thursday, 24 November 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link
I don't get no respect.
Thanksgiving music?
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 November 2022 23:35 (one year ago) link
We definitely talked about “It’s Thanksgiving”, I think on this thread years ago
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 25 November 2022 00:58 (one year ago) link
I scrolled up and lolled again at “My family owns an airport there”
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Friday, 25 November 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link
i do always revisit "it's thanksgiving". a classic
― dyl, Friday, 25 November 2022 14:44 (one year ago) link
It’s the time of year when everyone has rubs smelling up their cribs
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 25 November 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
Did dude take down the song where he said “they call me fat fat fat fat Usher”
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 25 November 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
i hope so, that was so embarrassing
― dyl, Saturday, 26 November 2022 03:38 (one year ago) link
RIP CJ Fam
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, 26 November 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
in the end you just can't autotune the pain of a dying child.
― sarahell, Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
[citation needed]
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 05:59 (one year ago) link
i was 13 this man is 36 https://t.co/a7Hxtaxi9W— Rebecca Black (@MsRebeccaBlack) January 6, 2023
― the shaker intro bit the shaker outro in the tail, hard (breastcrawl), Saturday, 7 January 2023 19:55 (one year ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 13:32 (one year ago) link
I forgot to mention there's a track that sounds like Phoebe Bridgers, because of there is.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 13:33 (one year ago) link
lmao 'destroy me' has almost the same 'whoa!' sounds as Smack My Bitch Up :D (they're 'hey' here i think but same effect)
― imago, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 13:43 (one year ago) link
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)
― Tim F, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 13:50 (one year ago) link
to continue that cross-pollination, if big beat is truly coming back, that is one nostalgia i will not stand in the way of
― imago, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link