Is Rebecca Black the next Justin Bieber, or is "Friday" the worst song ever?

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      As I have taken pains to point out before, you're going to see these viral videos somewhere at some point, so you might as well see them here, right?

      Given that it already has more than 17 million views on YouTube, you've probably already seen the video for Rebecca Black's "Friday". With those kinds of numbers, it's not hard to see why the young singer is being touted as "the next Justin Bieber".

      Then again, there seems to be growing public opinion that "Friday" is in fact the worst song ever.

      Ridiculous. I mean, who can't relate to it? Sometimes it's hard to decide whether you want to sit in the front seat or the back seat, right? And sometimes you really need to remind yourself that Friday is the day between Thursday and Saturday, and that Sunday follows Saturday. (After that I get lost, and I have to look up the theme song to Happy Days).

      Anyhow, watch the video above and judge for yourself.

      Comments

      12 Comments

      Michelle da Silva

      Mar 18, 2011 at 5:02pm

      This song and music video is pretty terrible. I feel sorta bad for her.

      natalie

      Mar 18, 2011 at 5:43pm

      she can sing, but her voice is terrible here, but other than that she can really sing, she sang the anthem in an interview, andnded amazing just when she sings friday euugghhhh disgusting

      James Redfield

      Mar 18, 2011 at 5:51pm

      So, we write a song about the fact that some teenagers have "no life' they just wait for Friday.
      Seems to show how "low" standards have gotten.
      Watched her interview today, she seems to be a nice girl, but not a singer.

      Poor girl...

      Mar 18, 2011 at 6:11pm

      See, now this is interesting. Yes, Black is manufactured. Yes, she's a product of her parents' money and her producers' connections. Yes, her song is gratingly awful. Yes, she's pretty much talentless. But why do we attack her for that and not, you know, everyone else in the toxic abyss of the Top 40? What makes her worse than them? She's a 13-year-old girl and as such, she never did anyone any harm, so why the cause for hate?

      I have some idea why... the producers of Black's single, Ark Music Factory, are a a vanity production outfit. They're a coterie of hireling producers who advertise in the circles of the very wealthy, private schools, etc. We can assume that Black's parents essentially paid for the venture in what amounts to a very expensive glamour photo shoot for their daughter, and that Ark's other connections pushed the video into channels where its catchiness (and it is catchy) would find a radio audience.

      Black's origins, as they become known, expose pop music for the racket it is. Pop fans don't like that Black's fame was bought overtly, rather than covertly. It gives people cause to entertain their envy as they think "That could've been me if only I'd had rich parents," and even better, it casts doubt on the legitimacy of their preferred pop icons, like Bieber, who they consider to be more 'real'. Yeah, right.

      If anything, Black herself is a victim here. She's 13, for god's sake. What tween girl would say no to the opportunity to become a hit pop star, in an age when pop stardom is portrayed as the only desirable occupation in the world?

      Tina Nelson

      Mar 18, 2011 at 6:29pm

      Rebbeca i love ur song friday!!!! :) <3

      James Davies

      Mar 18, 2011 at 8:16pm

      I read a blog that discussed the lyrics for the song and they are pretty bad. The song was provided by the recording company. Then they compared them to a Lady Gaga Song and to a Kate Perry song. Those lyrics were equally as bad. The point was most music today is prefabricated and pretty pointless. The successful people are providing a slicker package.

      mike robinson

      Mar 19, 2011 at 5:55pm

      In answer to your question: yes and yes.

      PT Barnum

      Mar 20, 2011 at 5:00pm

      If it's the worst song ever, that's a selling point in its favour. As someone once said, there's a sucker born every minute. Someone else said that if you can't be good, then be novel. And the worst song ever is certainly a new low.

      greg simpson

      Mar 20, 2011 at 9:53pm

      I avvoid negative comments on anybody's music...that being said, now that I've seen this I have no need to see it again...now that I've heard it I have no need of hearing it again...interesting to me that the first verse felt so much like Reunion's Life is a Rock and the Radio Rules Me.