# Rebecca Black "Friday" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2011, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951 "2011-03-25T12:08:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/61 "2011-03-25T18:45:03Z")
Just throwing in some _good_ Friday-songs to decontaminate everybody’s ears: [The Easybeats](http://www.wat.tv/video/the-easybeats-friday-on-my-mind-1pok9_2fgqp_.html) [The Cure](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5eKciJisnI) ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/62 "2011-03-25T19:21:00Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzfQwXEqYaI&feature=player_embedded) is my favorite cover version of Rebecca Black’s classic thus far. And it has a good message. Oh my god, I’m dying at my desk. I’ve been annoying Facebook all day with Friday quotes and links. This one is going on there. ---
**Author:** ![Jules\_Andre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jules_andre/32/9334_2.png) [@Jules\_Andre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules_Andre)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/63 "2011-03-25T19:47:23Z")
There is no defense of this song, the video, or the lyrics, that is legitimate. None. If you managed to withstand the brain rot long enough to get to the part where she teaches us about the days of the week (and I applaud you, it honestly took me three tries), then you saw firsthand why it’s the lyrical work of first graders. ---
**Author:** ![Aeris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Aeris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeris)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/64 "2011-03-25T19:55:35Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > She’s thirteen and I don’t get the hate either. Maybe we’re just burned out on teen pop stars. Fair enough. Because “Move Bitch Get out of the way” is just so brilliant, right? 🙂 I’m sorry this could be because I grew up singing, dancing, and acting and I have no patience whatsoever for famous people who SUCK but in my opinion if you’re going to be famous you have to be good at something other than sucking. Unless of course you are a porn star and then that’s a different story. There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of talented or at least cute young performers out there who deserve a chance and this kid with no talent at all is famous? AHHH!! That’s why I hate it. Not her, she’s just a kid, I hate the video and the song that was made for her. Plus I hate that everyone keeps saying she can’t sing. Confused? Let me clarify. SHE’S NOT SINGING!! SHE’S SPEAKING IN RHYTHM IN A MONOTONE VOICE!!:smack: I refuse to reward this or accowledge it as anything other than crap. A previous poster mentioned a song called Butterflies that was done by the same company and is quite sweet. The difference is that the singer of Butterflies _sings_ and not all that badly. She has a little acting ability or at least enough to imbue some emotion into what she’s saying and to the person watching the video. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/65 "2011-03-25T19:58:06Z")
> [@Jules\_Andre](#): > > There is no defense of this song, the video, or the lyrics, that is legitimate. None. If you managed to withstand the brain rot long enough to get to the part where she teaches us about the days of the week (and I applaud you, it honestly took me three tries), then you saw firsthand why it’s the lyrical work of first graders. Jesus christ, way to be over the top. It’s a vanity video that parents had made for their 13-year-old daughter. Come on, what 13-year-old doesn’t want to be the star of her own music video? The song is absolutely terrible, of course, but to go on about how this is a symbol of how awful pop music today is and how there’s “no defense” is absurd. She’s THIRTEEN. No one involved ever expected this to become an internet meme. Christ. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/66 "2011-03-25T20:06:30Z")
[Bob Dylan cover](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FISHEO3gsM). ---
**Author:** ![Tamarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tamarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamarin)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/67 "2011-03-25T20:42:27Z")
[A Cappella version.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9iwGqFlEgw&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/68 "2011-03-25T20:52:35Z")
[“Friday” interpreted by a bad lip reader](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GaKaGwch0U) ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/69 "2011-03-25T21:07:19Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > [“Friday” interpreted by a bad lip reader](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GaKaGwch0U) This had me rolling on the floor. “Pleasant Nazis” … ha! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/70 "2011-03-25T21:11:14Z")
> [@enomaj](#): > > Did you catch the Rapper Who’s in the Video But Not _in_ the Video trope? I mean that’s gotta be a trope right?! What does that even mean? ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/71 "2011-03-25T21:13:30Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzfQwXEqYaI&feature=player_embedded) is my favorite cover version of Rebecca Black’s classic thus far. And it has a good message. Love that! “My hand is a dolphin!” ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/72 "2011-03-25T23:11:09Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > What does that even mean? He’s in the video but doesn’t share any scenes with anyone else. I think Katy Perry/Snoop Dogg is arecent example. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/73 "2011-03-25T23:13:48Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzfQwXEqYaI&feature=player_embedded) is my favorite cover version of Rebecca Black’s classic thus far. And it has a good message. That guy is doing what is, without question, the worst Christopher Walken impression of all time. I could only figure out it WAS a Walken impression by reading the video summary. [QUOTE=Kyla] She’s THIRTEEN. No one involved ever expected this to become an internet meme. Christ. [/QUOTE] Actually, that’s exactly what they wanted, I suspect. They just wanted it to be a positive Internet meme. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/74 "2011-03-25T23:17:44Z")
I keep mis-reading the thread title and thinking someone named Vanessa or Rebecca has done a cover of ‘[Black Friday](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVQKiqCZ9No)’ - a much better song. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/75 "2011-03-25T23:28:16Z")
I already discussed this to death on Facebook last week, but I will reiterate my two big issues with this video: 1. If that driver is old enough to legally have a license, he wouldn’t be CAUGHT DEAD driving around 13 year olds, especially not to school where he would be seen! 2. Is anyone else disturbed by the fact that the interlude is by a guy who’s on the far side of 40 rapping about he gets excited when he sees a school bus? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/76 "2011-03-25T23:33:39Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > I mean, I’ve heard at least one Beatles song with lamer lyrics (granted, their actual singing and instrumenting was a lot better) > > :dubious: > Yes, they had some lame early lyrics, but please, name this special song. Ladies and Gentlemen, that would be **Hello Goodbye** whose lyrics are exceptionally stupid and banal, which has no musical or peformance value whatsoever, and was made late enough in their careers that they had no good excuse. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/77 "2011-03-25T23:45:17Z")
[Out At Home webcomic filler strip](http://www.out-at-home.com/archives/1597) because the artist didn’t have time to make a regular strip. > [@RickJay](#): > > For an interesting comparison, watch a little Canadian Youtube sensation, “Done With Dolls.” Now [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df3ZRJB5BWc) is promising. > [@RandMcnally](#): > > You guys are all wrong, this song is actually a hell of a lot [deeper](http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/6148/1300154451929.jpg) than people are giving it credit for. That is the funniest shit I’ve read on the Internet in a very long time 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/78 "2011-03-26T00:55:17Z")
> [@enomaj](#): > > He’s in the video but doesn’t share any scenes with anyone else. I think Katy Perry/Snoop Dogg is arecent example. Nah, they did have a scene together in California Girls. Snoop Dogg and his Gummi Bears face off against Katy and her girls, and Katy goes whipped cream akimbo on the Gummi Bears. It’s really a bizarre music video once you try to describe it. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/79 "2011-03-26T01:16:38Z")
For her follow-up single, I hear she’s remaking [“Sandcastles in the Sand.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H90MJTO4wZo) Should be legendary. ---
**Author:** ![Curious3d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Curious3d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curious3d)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951/80 "2011-03-26T01:23:52Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > For her follow-up single, I hear she’s remaking [“Sandcastles in the Sand.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H90MJTO4wZo) > Should be legendary. Within the vast Robin Sparkles discography, I think I prefer [Let’s go to the Mall](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF1b1pf9DRY&feature=related). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebecca-black-friday/575951.md?page=5)