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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0

1. The way she has a frowny pooping sun written on the Thursday page of her planner

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

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?

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.

8. FYI when today is Friday, tomorrow is Saturday, and Sunday comes afterwards.

9. Yesterday was Thursday

10. TGI Friday's marketing ppl, did you hear this?>?

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.

12. beats a level of Super Mario World at 0:44

13. bowl/seery-ohl

14. Green screen halo on the way to the full moon prom

15. how obnoxiously she enunciates the "r" sound in "partying"

16. featured rapper going "R! B! REBECCA BLACK!"

17. boy in the back seat beckoning

12. beats a level of Super Mario World at 0:44

THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS TO MY ATTN, this is definitely the best

18. Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun!

http://i55.tinypic.com/30avti8.jpg

I do feel a bit sorry for this girl, possibly.

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.

It's easy to imagine she's singing about fried egg.

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.

20. Underage driving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DwT_2QQU64

There does come a point when it's slightly creepy. 2:25 is solid gold though.

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."

21. Not wearing seatbelts because it could get in the way of "FUN FUN FUN".

22. Shading the girl on her left by singing "my friend is by my right".

23. The puzzling omission of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

i thought this was real until it got to the bridge

A dramatic reading of Rebecca Black’s “Friday”

what does "real" mean in this context?

^^^^^^^^

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhzhamfLq01qfqhot.jpg

<3

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.

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!"

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...?"

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.

Pick a parody/reinterpretation, any parody/reinterpretation:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rebecca+black+friday&aq=f

Personally I'm all about this, but I would be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1M5Q3onsX4

^ this is probably better than anything Kevin Shields might ever deign to release

She should change her name to Rebecca Black Friday, or maybe just Black Friday.

Hard to beat this one as far as passionate delivery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EdUUMdcUYU

25. How she can get up at 07:00 and still straighten her hair in time for school.

The happy hardcore version resulting here rules:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cazsLHi9fI

"Yesterday was Thirsty, Thirsty/Today it's Fried Eggs, Fried Eggs"

She should change her name to Rebecca Black Friday, or maybe just Black Friday.

http://i.imgur.com/bnkcX.jpg

1. omg
2. ...how does this thing manage to be an actual earworm >:(

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

If you showed me this now I'd think it was AI generated.

it's definitely got that AI quality where if you're not paying particularly close attention it seems pretty normal, but the more you focus on it the weirder it gets

Rebecca Black playing a Friday x 360 mashup at her Boiler Room set. pic.twitter.com/W6JjMO7Quw

— xcxshake (@xcxshake) September 17, 2024

awesome

looks like everyone is having fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun

oh shit look what day it is

Just popping in to say her new album is so good. In places it's the kind of album I'd want Britney to return with.

an ex of mone produced a bunch of tracks on the new one.

I've seen that she's popular on AOTY and RYM. I wondered if that was real or a joke. Maybe the former.

getting heavy rotation from my daughter here

I think there's an element of people wanting to support something in a contrarian way, and the music not actually being as awful as you'd expect if you were basing it solely on the Friday debacle.

I haven't heard the new album yet but the previous stuff I heard was very mid - not awful but nothing that would make me actively pay attention

I'll probably investigate based on KP recommending it though!

It's a nonstop, maximalist ride. I love how virtually every track ends in a completely different place from where it started. So many interesting and wild production choices throughout. I'm impressed!

just chiming in to say: KP and KevRus otm

I'd liked a couple of her non-"Friday" tracks before but this record is a huge step up. feels like she's due a critical breakthrough like slayyyter's this year

A few of my faves:

"Hot Wet Delirious"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX6ZbnN0z6E

"Miss Delicious"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl_oZMeLmcE

"Waschesalon" - utterly massive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J93k82wn7UY

Ironically the one I didn't really love is the single "Anaheim Star" but it sounds better in the context of the album

The best songs to me are "Michael" and "Waschesalon". I like her most when she leans into an Addison Rae type of sound (which is a view perhaps framed by how much I enjoyed Rebecca's "Fame is a Gun" cover)

I just watched "Hot Wet Delirious" and in my mind, Black is the girl from the "Friday" video and... uh, she's grown up a little and that's doing my head in a bit.

Anyway, that was way more than I ever expected of her. The music I mean.

Just listened to all three of those and there was a gradual increase in quality from very good to fucking incredible.

Dang, you're not kidding. "Waschesalon" is really great.

Macklemore is a voice of reason and Rebecca Black is putting out terrific music. I feel like I'm in an alternate dimension.

I was just looking for a CD copy of the album and there's none to be had, but there's a pretty vinyl:

https://rebeccablack.co/products/age-of-the-exhibitionist-vinyl-metallic-gold

I bet that fucker is going to be worth some money in a year or two.

I am the woman that my mother wanted me to be
Just made a million off my so-called mediocrity

damn. good for her

This album is so fucking good

<3

Rebecca Black performed a mashup of “Sugar Water Cyanide” and Tinashe’s “Melatonin” during the opening night of Exhibitionism On Tour in Boston. pic.twitter.com/aNVhNuXKsb

— Tinashe Charts (@tinashedata) September 24, 2026

Her addition of a random 'e' in the middle of the German word 'Waschsalon' is really triggering.

good job I have no plan to learn German then

both tracks produced by Nightfeelings, aka Nick Weiss, who was 1/2 of Teengirl Fantasy (and whom I briefly dated when we were in college)

I tried with this new one, but I am just too old for it I think

I still sing "Friday" to myself sometimes, though