This is your latest internet meme. A 13 year old girl named Rebecca Black went to one of those Make-Your-Kid-A-Star places that writes and produces a music video to show your friends. The thing goes viral, in part because the lyrics are comically literal. Boom. We get some oddly catchy musical magic.
My take: The girl is cute. The song can be enjoyed in a benevolent, ironical way. And thank God I didn’t grow up in an age when all juvenilia was published and dissected.
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This song will be in my head the rest of the day.
Here’s a short article about Rebecca Black as well as three other teens who made awful videos:
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/16/awkward-preteen-pop-three-kids-who-could-be-the-next-rebecca-black/
The first one is just some 13 year old boy lip-syncing, surrounded by hot MILFs.
Can’t wait to see her on SNL.
You say the lyrics are insipid, but that just shows how shallow you are. The reality is that the lyrics contain depth and truth. We should consider ourselves blessed to be exposed to this profound song; nay, this poetry.
“Which seat do I sit in?” is obviously referring to the very difficult decisions she must make as she enters adulthood. Which religion do I go with? What are my political leanings? Whose side do I take: NFL owners or players?
Further, the use of the calendar is a metaphor for her life as it goes on, becoming more complex as she ages.
The bowl of cereal she refers to near the beginning of the song is actually a way of expressing her need for …..
aw, crap. I can’t keep typing this with a straight face.
…:neutral:
Man, if phones with cameras and video cameras, FB and Youtube were around when I was 10-20… My life would not be the same. I couldn’t handle the “fame” of being on the Internet. I couldn’t handle the “fame” of acting up in front of every class I was was ever in. To me, a group of people were always an audience!
http://arkmusicfactory.com/profile/rebeccablack
Some great comments on her website.
I like Wednesdays
Bob Dylan has released a cover of this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FISHEO3gsM
The “Bob Dylan” version of the song is very good:
My post of this same clip was better than yours.
Sorry middletree, I didn’t know you posted the same clip, since the comments here don’t show up until approved. Had I known, I wouldn’t have posted it.
Cheers.
Damn, you beat me to it.
Dillon sucks. MOst over rated musician of all time.
next to Carlos Santana…
Do not watch this video of a snake biting a busty model at a photoshoot and then dying from silicone poisoning.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/14/orit-fox-model-breast-snake-bite-video_n_835684.html
Don’t take this the wrong way, but may you rot in eternal Hell for making me watch that. I’ll never get it out of my head!!! FUN FUN FUN FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where’s my gun?
Teenie bopper super gay
well at least she learned something in high school, she has got her days of the week locked down pat
No question, worst song that my ears have ever laid ears? upon…
perhaps genius? I’d jam it cranked up full blast with my windows down.
It’s so educational
I’m sorry but my brain exploded at the :40 mark.
What a horrible song, voice, and video. Fun, fun, fun, fun….
Yes Thank God also we grew up in an age without Autotune. Is it used here, or is that just how this young lady thinks singing SHOULD sound? Alas, if she’d listened to her grandparents Easybeats, Velvet Underground, Let’s Active, Moody Blues or Mamas & Papas tunes about “-days”, instead of the steady diet of Key$h*t and Blackeyed Pees, she might’ve not wound up being on this site and labeled “insipid”. PS: does one of her friends in the car have melted chocolate all around her mouth?
Her first CD will have 7 songs. One for each day of the week.
I’m guessing there weren’t any other videos up for consideration to be posted for today.
I wish I knew when all of this was happening.
Video with doo doo as the life.
She makes a compelling argument for the front seat and the back seat, but not chosing one just shows us the mystery of Rebecca Black. Some things are better left unsaid.
The most I’ve ever heard of that song was what you played on the radio this morning. Someone threw up a link to it on one of the forums I frequent last week, and after about 4 seconds, I pulled a Rhynes and was “OUT!”
And how is this video any different than a Ke$ha video?
Hey, you wanna know which teams I picked in my bracket?
She’s only 13? Really?
The internet has taken away all the filters to the world – we are free – free to enjoy everyone’s wonderful thoughts, words,music,pictures, kick ass stories and lifestyles….man I hate the internet – I miss my carefully crafted marketing world that made me feel good inside.
Illegal downloads didn’t kill the recording industry – crap like this did.
GK.com used to be such an awesome website….a daily (sometimes twice daily) stop down. Sorry to say this ticketheads, but this dot com has become a twice a month give up for Gordon. I for one am really sorry to see he has gotten so, so awfully big for his celebrity pants. I guess money makes you too busy for the girl you took to the dance. Kill me now. No funeral. (remember that all you old timers)
agreed
Been thinking this same thing for a few years now. I only stop down once every few months.
We get one post per week and you choose a music video from a 13 year old?
Gordo, you are well on your way to irrelevancy.
We We We So Excited…We So Excited!
1453 Days til she’s legal… and counting.
ask cube which seat she should take.
http://thechive.com/2011/03/16/daily-afternoon-randomness-45-photos-2/randos-today-32-3/
I have 2 questions about this.
#1 why go to the bus stop and then get into a car with her friends? what was the point of the bus stop?
#2 – what are all those UFO’s flying by behind them when they’re in the car? Was ET sampling her?
lastly. . . I hate you for posting this Gordo. . . because now I’ve got a tune wedgie stuck in my brain. . .
Well, that was fun, fun, fun…and truth be told, I have to ask if it was it really any worse than the average teenpop video on Disney? Okay, it was, but not by a whole heckuva lot. And is it wrong that I suddenly became concerned that she and her adorable friends might not live to see Monday when “The Rapper” appeared? Fo’ realz. I mean, was he supposed to be following them?
Just as relevant, were those lyrics any dumber than stuff from the 80′s? I offer the following, all from huge hits, so supposedly these songs had many likers:
“Instead, you lay still in the grass, all coiled up and hissin’.”
“She-bop. We Bop. A They Bop.”
“Hey Mickey you’re so fine. You’re so fine you blow my mind.”
“Everybody Wang Chung tonight.”
“I bought a ticket to the world, but now I’ve come back again, Why do I find it hard to write the next line?”
You can also add to that list some huge hits from the 90′s:
“Rolling in my 5.0 with the ragtop down so my hair can blow.”
“I get knocked down, but I get up again. You’re never going to keep me down.”
“When I dance they call me macarena. And the boys they say that I´m buena.”
They forgot the 4 loko
tosh.0 makes these things happen
I hate myself for liking that video.
Since she is only 13, I wonder if she inserted fun fun fun fun because she really doesn’t know how to party. What is so fun fun fun fun? Twister? Monopoly? Or has she turned into another Miley Cyrus clone that really wanted to say “Rum rum rum rum”? I am also curious where the police are in this situation. The boy is clearly not old enough to drive unless he had a learner’s permit… but where is the passenger over 18? And then later they are not wearing seatbelts while driving down the highway? If I passed them, I’d call the police and let them know some underaged kids stole a car and are joyriding it while not wearing seatbelts. And the rapper is comfortable enough to call her RB… She’s 13, pervert! Fun fun fun fun? I think not. Someone needs to step in so she makes it past the weekend. Where’s her dad Clint Black? Probably doing blow with Garth Brooks.
As mind-melting as this song was to hear just now, I am forced to say that it has a slight edge over the tragedy that is Willow Smith’s song “I Whip My Hair”, that I was unfortunate enough to click on after reading a similar article to this one. People like Will and Jada Smith, as well as this girl’s parents need to be given a life sentence of having to listen to their kids singing 24/7. I think I would rather be water-boarded!!! Check out Willow Smith’s song, I dare you!!!!
This girl can’t be 13. She looks at least 16.
Fun Fun Fun Fun
Did this girl write Kim Kardashian’s “song”?
vomit!
Uummmm. She never got naked
What happened to the boobies?
Give her a few years…
Blatant violation of our nations seat belt laws. I would like to see charges brought upon these scoundrels immediately.
I found I really enjoyed the song and video until the blinged out 35 year old black pimp arrived on the scene. At that point, the whole video took on a really tense vibe for me, as I found myself wondering if she ever saw Saturday and if so, if she was still the innocent little singer she was on Friday? My gut (and racial stereotyping) tells me no. Perhaps she can address that in her next video.
The black dude is obviously in the video because he too likes Friday, as with Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, and the late Bernie Mac (RIP):
Yeeesh….”Chimpanzee Riding on a Segway” is even better than this.
And just how is this song that much worse than most Black Eyed Peas songs, huh? I was expecting to hate it, and guess what…I don’t love it. But, it’s really not *that* bad.
It’ Friday, Friday! Gotta get down on Friday, everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend, weekend!
Were the web pickins slow the day you decided to post this? How do you even categorize this kind of thing musically? Twilight/Taylor Swift/Mylie Cyrus meets anti-inflammatory medication label information? I am so not ready to make love to this… hard.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH.
This is what life has come to. Sitting through this entire video. Wow……
Not.That.Bad.
As has been noted here in previous posts, this is just a slightly less produced and under-lyric-ed version of most of the schlock coming from the likes of Pitbull, Rhianna, et al.
It’s a Saturday, a Saturday and 3 in the moooorrrning…
It’s a Saturday, a Saturday and 3 in the moooorrrning…
I’m on Gordon Keith.com, and my girl is sleeping in her chair….
She’s sleeping in the chair…. Sleeeeping in the chair!
If had a few miller light, and life is feeling alright…
Life is feeling alright!!!
Where’s my record deal?
I guess we have a high standard for amateur videos by 13 yr olds, bc I was really impressed by the whole thing. It was catchy, sounded great and looked well produced. How in the world was this thing put together?
I am thoroughly impressed tho if I’m parents of 13 yr olds talking ab partying I am a little nervous…
I can’t wait to hear her next single “Summer” so I can learn whether or not she likes that time of year as well as when it occurs chronologically in relation to the other seasons.
George’s blue flame also made some horrible music: http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Flame-George-Centeno/dp/B000066AQK
Watching this video, then calling it gay is SUPER GAY.
We don’t hate her because she is famous….she is famous because we hate her.
So A Day In The Life is comically simple as well, right?