I guess I’m just looking for general reactions and, out of context, is this a put on? Do the producers go out of their way to pick buzz-worthy songs over quality?
For the cast’s sake I hope not. NOONE could make that POS song sound good or even listenable.
I’ll see your fancy orchestra and raise you this much.
There’s nothing wrong with “buzz-worthy”. Stupid, inane, bubblegum earworms can be fun. “Friday” is a fantastically shitty song. But it’s a fun shitty song.
It was vastly improved by being sung by a guy with a mohawk.
Nobody seems to want to fix the real problem that everyone originally cited: Not just the lyrics, but how they repeat and how they fit rhythmically. It sounds like Chappelle’s white guy stereotype trying to rap.
I honestly find it hilarious that giving it a new coat of paint makes it where people like it. Nothing about the song itself is changed. And, I’m not shaming anyone: I thought all the links in here sounded good, too.
Well-produced dreck somehow sounds better.
I don’t understand all the hubbub about this song. Sure, it’s horrible, but how does that distinguish it from anything else being made these days? It’s just another bad song, which as far as I can tell is pretty much the norm.
And get off my lawn.
It wasn’t even the worst song sung on Glee last night. That honor goes to “Jar of Hearts”, the one with the line “You’re gonna catch a cold/From the ice inside your soul”. That is the worst song I have heard in years. How anyone can listen to it without laughing is beyond me. “Friday” is a bubblegum pop song. You shouldn’t expect the lyrics to be good. “Jar of Hearts” is presented as a serious song, but it’s complete rubbish.
A lot of it, I think, is a reaction against the “vanity video” origin of it. And I admit that I think that aspect is ridiculous, myself…kids these days! If we wanted to make a video when I was a kid, we had to sneak the Super8 movie camera out of the house and film it ourselves! Pfui.
It’s inane, but so is at least 90% of the average playlist of anyone’s local Top 40 format ClearChannel radio station.
Needless to say, Hitler hates it.
I was previously unaware of the rampant hatred for this song (or, really, the existence of this song), and, I have to say, I liked it on Glee. It wasn’t trying to be a serious song, it’s a party song, and entirely appropriate for The Prom atmosphere at that moment in the episode.
I’m not going to add it to my playlist or anything (mostly because I can’t find my iPod), but it was…cheerful.
Beats them doing yet another Lady Gaga crapfest.
Could you explain this more for me? I know nothing about the origins of the song or who Rebecca Black is, so clue me in?
After listening to several versions, I hate, hate hate songs that are basically one note the whole way through.
Black is a California teenager whose mother paid $4000 to “vanity publish” a song and a video of her singing it. It’s…inane, as has been noted, but it’s not really all that much more inane than any random pop song. The video took off on Facebook (largely on the strength of snark).
Ahhhhhhh…
The lyrics aren’t that much worse than really bad pop music, I suppose, but the singing really is. Believe it or not, the people who write and perform pop music usually do have some skills; clearly, nobody involved in this project would know skill if it hit them over the head or sang them a tune.
There’s a lot of things about the song/video/performance that makes it oh-so-wrong, but the most jarring is about 2 minutes when you get some large man in his 30s rapping about a 13 year old girl.
The only thing that could have improved that sequence if it were the Pope. Then the thing would’ve been the first video on Youtube to get a billion views. 
The thing I don’t get about Glee is the auto-tune. Is it supposed to be a show about people who can’t sing without technological enhancement?
My kids watched some of this episode before school this morning, which was my first 20-minute exposure to Glee. I remain unimpressed.
It’s helpful to pretend “Jar of Hearts” is secretly about two characters from Mortal Kombat.