The pop culture phenomenon of the week is Rebecca Black with her new hit song “Friday”. Black is being likened to teenage super-pop-star Justin Bieber. It went from 2000 hits to 25million hits just this week!! Perhaps Black is the new Bieber? Anyway, you decide:
Sometimes modern pop lyrics are hard to understand. Not in this track. They are simple, yet profound. Her observations on life are quite insightful.
It’s only March, but this song is well on its way to ‘song of the year’. Triple thumbs up ;)
What struck me was that all the teenagers in the clip actually looked like teenagers. They weren’t 20-something year olds pretending to be 15 or overly glamorised and dressed up. I’ve been so conditioned to seeing that in music videos that it actually shocked me a little.
i noticed that too…
mainly when i realised that a 13 year old was driving the car!!!
meh. Didn’t do it for me, but then I’m not a youngpunk(TM). Felt really, really simplistic – lyrics were banal.
Am I just an old fart?
come on old fart – this track is amazing!!!
i for one can’t wait for the album…
;)
seriously. It’s dull.
You want clever and catchy teen pop – what about this UK effort from 10 years ago? (one dodgy line – the rest of it pure genius).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPdqO7odBYM&feature=fvst
Did that ever make it out to Australia?
i don’t think i’ve heard of them before, so not sure if they made it out or not!
pretty formulaic pop rock though…
“formulaic”.
I weep for you.
hey – i didn’t say it was a bad formula!
calculus – now that’s a bad formula!
I hope there’s some sarcasm in this post.
Never!
Ok.
If it wasn’t obvious in the first 2 paragraphs, the “triple” thumbs up and wink at the end were hopefully small indicators!!
There is nothing profound about a stream of consciousness narrative about how one looks forward to the weekend, starting with waking up on a Friday morning.
“nothing” profound?? Not even slightly?? Come on, gotta give some credit where it’s due!
see, i AM an old fart because I didn’t spot that. Miers, you’re too subtle.
haha. i have an eclectic taste in music… but this was just pushing it a little far!!
I really like the depth of the lyric,
“Partying, partying, partying, partying,
Fun, fun, fun, fun”
Deep.
i’m with you on that one!
i’m already hanging for friday after all this fruitful discussion…
you’re going to end up being hung by Friday. like fruit
Clever!
I do my best.
How you could possibly use the word “profound” in a description of this (can we call this music/art?) is beyond me. :P
Claire, you know you love it… It’s been in your head since Friday!!
her voice is profoundly nasally.
auto-tune?
Where does Sunday come?? Oh that’s right, after Saturday. We we we so educated!
Yesterday was Sunday. That makes today Monday
we so excited?!?!..we gonna have a ball today
we’re so excited! we’re gonna have a ball today!
maybe she spends a little too much time learning the days of the week, driving underage and going to parties on the weekend…lol
However, we have all learnt this valuable lesson from Rebecca Black
yesterday was thursday,
(assuming it was friday)
tomorrow is saturday and sunday comes afterwards
see i always thought that sunday was after friday and that saturday came afterwards… :S
Stoked you’ve been learning valuable lessons! Maybe if Rebecca’s music career doesn’t last she could become a school teacher!
Anyone want to write a Christian parody version called Sunday?
let me know if you find one!
i like this version. it’s quite depressing though.
i liked that one. i’ve only watched a couple of covers… that’s my fav!
it actually has some really beautiful/artistic shots…specially the bubbler….but i like this version best :P its just great ^_^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FISHEO3gsM&feature=related
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