Rebecca Black ♪ Friday

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

A 13-years-old girl, Rebecca Black, made a song called “Friday”. It went viral on the net on , and within a few days, got millions of views. As of today (), it's got 44M views.

Here's the video.

Rebecca Black - “Friday” Buy at amazon

I think i first saw the video from twitter. My first impression was: bad song. Monotonic music, brainless lyrics -- pubescent teennessness. I closed it without much thought, though i did finish watching it, for my fascination of teens. I didn't know she was 13. I might have taken her to be 16.

According to report [Mock Rebecca Black All You Want, She's Laughing To The Bank By Chris Barth. At http://blogs.forbes.com/chrisbarth/2011/03/21/mock-rebecca-black-all-you-want-shes-laughing-to-the-bank/ , accessed on 2011-03-24 ], she might be making $60k due to the popularity.

Here's the exceedingly intricate lyrics.

(Yeah, Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah-Ark)
Oo-ooh-ooh, hoo yeah, yeah
…

Seven a.m., waking up in the morning
Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs
Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal
Seeing everything, the time is going
Ticking on and on, everybody's rushing
Gotta get down to the bus stop
Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends

Kicking in the front seat
Sitting in the back seat
Gotta make my mind up
Which seat can I take?

It's Friday, Friday
Gotta get down on Friday
Everybody's looking forward to the weekend, weekend
Friday, Friday
Getting down on Friday
Everybody's looking forward to the weekend

Partying, partying (Yeah)
Partying, partying (Yeah)
Fun, fun, fun, fun
Looking forward to the weekend

7:45, we're driving on the highway
Cruising so fast, I want time to fly
Fun, fun, think about fun
You know what it is
I got this, you got this
My friend is by my right, ay
I got this, you got this
Now you know it

Kicking in the front seat
Sitting in the back seat
Gotta make my mind up
Which seat can I take?

It's Friday, Friday
Gotta get down on Friday
Everybody's looking forward to the weekend, weekend
Friday, Friday
Getting down on Friday
Everybody's looking forward to the weekend

Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday
Today i-is Friday, Friday (Partying)
We-we-we so excited
We so excited
We gonna have a ball today

Tomorrow is Saturday
And Sunday comes afterwards
I don't want this weekend to end

R-B, Rebecca Black
So chilling in the front seat (In the front seat)
In the back seat (In the back seat)
I'm driving, cruising (Yeah, yeah)
Fast lanes, switching lanes
Wit' a car up on my side (Woo!)
(C'mon) Passing by is a school bus in front of me
Makes tick tock, tick tock, wanna scream
Check my time, it's Friday, it's a weekend
We gonna have fun, c'mon, c'mon, y'all

Lol. The doldrums and highpoint of teens. Yesterday is Thursday, today is Friday, tomorrow is Saturday, and amazingly, Sunday comes afterwards. Which seat to take?

Parodies

There are lots of parodies. Some of them are actually more creative and musical.

“Rebecca Black - “Friday”, as performed by Bob Dylan” (HeyMikeBauer)
“Friday by Rebecca Black - Cover by Matt Mulholland” (parody)
“Rebecca Black - “Friday” (Brock's Dub)”

MY HAND IS A DOLPHIN

That's LOL!

More Covers

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