Yeah, it’s bad, but don’t discount the complete lack of production values. Shitty songs have cost more. Look at “MacArthur Park.”
I don’t think MacArthur park is in the same ballpark of bad. It’s overwrought nonsense. Friday literally sounds like somebody reading a slightly mistranslated children’s primer about the days of the week.
The production values in Friday aren’t so much “lacking” as “bad.” It’s overproduced in a stunningly silly way.
Ark Music factory has dozens of videos from its current and former clients up on youtube. The most recent: Lexi St. George – “Dancing to the Rhythm”
You could make the same criticisms about all of them. So what was it about the Friday video that caught the public’s attention that the previous and subsequent videos lacked?
I had never heard of her before this thread, so I Googled up the video. It’s pretty lame, especially the lyrics, but it’s not William Hung bad, it’s just really amateurish. I’m assuming a lot of the viral nature if the video is ironic? People making fun of it?
I see that her Wiki page says she had to leave her school because of harassment and bullying she started receiving after the video took off. She even got death threats, apparently.
If I had to guess at the reason for the hatred, it’s probably just envy. She got something for very little. It’s easy to accept that if a person has some kind of obvious talent, but if they’re completely ordinary, it’s harder to take. People feel like it could have just as easily been them.
None of that is an excuse for the harassment, though.
It’s shit. As if most of pop music isn’t shit. Those of you (William) hung up on it, give it a rest and go back to sleep. There have been FAR crappier hits. Ask your parents and grandparents, though we will deny spending our paperboy earnings on that shit.
I was at best slightly aware of the “Friday” thing before this thread, so I checked YouTube, watched a parody version that was so damn funny that I don’t want to watch the original now because it’ll be a letdown, I’m sure.
It is. Avoid it.
If you lived through the 70’s, you will know there is much worse than Friday. It’s a pop song, by a kinda cute fresh-faced girl. It’s Friday, Friday, gotta down on Friday…
The song Butterflies is decent, although the vox could be improved. I could imagine if it was rerecorded it could be a hit, even maybe for a country artist.
Perhaps all pop success (or even all mega-success in general) is a fluke to some extent, but Michael Jackson is one of the worst possible examples of this that you could choose. Not only was Michael’s success the product of relentless training and promotion, from an early age (by his father), I think it is clear that he also had an immense innate talent (not particularly shared by his similarly trained siblings) as a singer. I am not, actually, a huge fan of his music (I find most of he actual songs uninteresting), but anyone who make an otherwise cliched song about a pet rat genuinely moving is, IMHO, a vocalist of real genius.
Jackson’s case is about as far away from Black’s as you could get.
I’m not convinced “Friday” is worse than “My Humps”, which was an international top ten hit.
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It is. My Humps is exactly what it intends to be: vapid and earwormy. It’s pop pablum with intentionally goofy lyrics that caught on like crazy. Fergie probably wanted you to hate it.
“Friday” includes a line about eating cereal. Which doesn’t rhyme with anything.
Maybe it’s meant to be ethereal.
Or just one more required step in her day, showing that life is serial in nature.
She paid them to do the song and video making each a work for hire. In a standard recording contract, the record company would own the master recording. And copyright for songs is automatically attributed to the author.
And RB Rebecca Black is in Katy Perry’s latest video extending her 15 minutes. If reality stars can stay relevant as long as they have, I don’t see any reason RB Rebecca Black can’t do the same.
And you think “Friday” was intended to be what, a deeply moving glimpse into the hidden depths of the human soul? I doubt anyone involved failed to notice that it was a stupid song about being excited about the weekend.
Personally, I was watchin’ to see what she would do.