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The Best Worst Song Ever? Yes. It is.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
12:28 am
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“Someone spent 30 seconds writing a song and I spent half an hour recording it!“
While we’re waiting for 50 Cent’s new . . . “movie” . . . to come out (“Things Fall Apart.” Google it. Watch the trailer. Wince from the pain it inflicts upon your being), and given the state of the world right now, America is begging for something fabulously horrifying to make fun of. And I’ve totally got you covered. I am pleased to present to you Rebecca Black’s “Friday,” a song of such epically bad proportions that it should, nay, MUST, be seen. It’s not that Rebecca’s voice isn’t adequately passable (it is), although she doesn’t seem to quite grasp the flimsy concept of the “video.” No, it’s the song itself, a Ke$ha-for-the-tweens-esque meditation on that wonderful day that comes before Saturday. Filled with such meaningful lyrics as “Yesterday was Thursday/Today is Friday/Tomorrow is Saturday/And Sunday comes afterwards,” this song will change your life. Though definitely not in the way intended. A part of me is hoping this is an elaborate hoax, but most of me just wants this to be pure, simple, unadulterated crap that everyone involved took seriously. But enough talk — just watch. (I will warn you that once you have seen this video, you cannot unsee it. It will haunt you. You’re welcome.)
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Yay! It worked! I included a youtube video with no one’s help! And my first Newsgasm! And it is an EPIC one. You’re welcome, Gasmii.
Random Sad Fact: This song? Is actually better than Kim Kardashian’s.
Considering the thick layers of autotune used on her voice, I’m not convinced you can call this singing anymore.
The best part? In ten years or so, an American Idol contestant will choose this song for the “my musical hero” episode.
The bad part? The video’s gone viral, it’s going to get far more listens (and sales) than it ever should have.
1:11-1:38; the girl on the left side deserves an award for her mad dancing skills. Plus it seems every joke is about her mad skillz.
There’s so much to love here though. The girl with the pimple, for one. The other with the braces. The rapper who hijacks the video, not doubt believing that the video is actually for HIS song.
We be excited, indeed.
I watched 30 seconds and I am scarred for life. All I could think was that she looked like a 12 year-old blow-up doll.
Thanks HT!
Thanks, HT. I needed that!
Yesterday was Thursday today is Friday we so excited?!!?? Knowing my dumb ass I’ll probably have the chorus stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
Thanks to this song, I now know the days of the week! Who knew that the day after Saturday was Sunday??
Kicking in the front seat or sitting in back seat — ah, the mind numbing dillemma of the ages.
I have to say I love the use of ‘Teen Mom’ graphics. God, her voice is pretty bad. It sounds like the bastardization of Jill Zarins voice with a touch of Kim Zs thrown in for good measure.
Great – I guarantee this shit is going to be stuck in my head of the rest of the week.
‘We we we we so excited’
Did a four year old write this?
mere, I was just about to quote that lyric, too. Thank God for this song. If I ever forget the days of the week, I’ll just listen to this “tune”.
“Part-e-n, part-e-n” Augh, it won’t stop!
This is the most awesomely awful song I’ve ever heard in my life. I don’t know whether to feel sorry for this girl for having become the Internet’s biggest joke, or feel jealous of her for being more famous than all of us while having no talent at all. Also, the massive amounts of autotuning make Glee sound natural. That’s a terrifying thought.
“Gotta have my bowl/Gotta have cereal” Really? REALLY?! Someone wrote a lyric about CEREAL?! I had a bagel for breakfast a few minutes ago. I feel like a nerd.
Fun! Fun! Fun!
This song is so bad I couldn’t listen past when she went downstairs for cereal – making it 3 syllables I might add – I had to unplug the speakers and just watch in horror…nope I’m done with that
Here’s a great version:
I am not even sure which scarred me more – this atrocity, or the time my sister decided to share the video for “I Flip My Hair” by that Will Smith kid – I think they are equally horrifying.
I am surprised to bring this up first… but this does resemble a youngish Nads. So it begs to ask.. is this a video Hypno found in the ‘locked vault’ while Nads was out of the office and now the secret is out? Congrats on the first Hyp….. But she is gonna come back and find out!
Why is she waiting at the bus stop for her friends to come pick her up? I feel bad for the bus driver. He must have sat there for a few minutes, waiting for Rebecca, who was already on her way to school, debating over sitting in the front seat or kicking it in the back seat.
giffordsaz — I thought the same thing!!
Which seat could I take??????
We-ee so, we-ee so,we-ee so…illiterate.
But I did like the addition of the 40-year-old pedophile following the school bus to the all-night rave in some empty field. Because that wasn’t creepy at all.
Would that be the pre-mullet Nads, or the post-mullet Nads?
Dear Hypnotoad,I have never done anything bad to you, so I have to ask WHY??? Yes, you did warn me that once seen it could not be undone, but this really should have included a threat level orange advisory. If I had a ten year old who played this I would resort to physical threats to stop it. However, I can imagine mothers of depressed pre-teens saying “Look honey, the kids in that Friday video have acne and
braces too!” But still….
Is this really that much worse than Loverboy?
I’m sorry, Fan-Ann! Well, not incredibly sorry. This thing is so freaking viral. It’s like a cold sore. Last time I checked there were over 3 million (!!!!) hits on youtube. It was on Tosh.0′s website, and pretty much every online news source is covering it. I’m so hoping for an SNL sketch. I can totally see Nasim Pedrad doing this. OR — Nads, are you there? Parody please!
This song isn’t even a song! It’s one note! She goes up a note and dips down here and there, but really, she’s droning a flat note the whole fucking time.
Let me start by saying that I’m a 29 year old black man with the musical taste of a 14 year old white girl. Miley Cyrus? Love her. Willow Smith (young enough to be gosh darn daughter I might add) love her as well. I’m forever whipping my hair back and forth. Yeah I don’t have sophiscated musical tastes, so sue me.
So when I read that this song was bad. I didn’t believe. I thought I’d be the lone hand raised up and I’d say “well its not that bad”. Alas my hand remains planted firmly down. I just can’t believe how bad the song is. As SexyPanda mentioned she’s not really singing but yes giving one flat slightly just reading the horrible lyrics. A good singer and a good beat can usually make up for lack of lyrics but not this time. Oh and the rap part just made me CRINGE.
Who told this poor misguided child that this would be a good song? Poor Rebecca Black. I blame the adults in her life.
Oh and the back/front seat delimma. Well the front seat is already taken. Sweetie just sit in the back seat and appreciate a ride to school.
Ok, this song is pretty bad, but are you all forgetting the awesome horror that was Heidi whatshernamefromthehills’ debut music video: Higher? When I first saw it I could have sworn it was a hoax, then I realized she was serious and it made me laugh, then the sheer awfulness of it sunk in and all that was left was the horror.
About this video though…are any of those kids old enough to even drive? And who is the lame adult “rapper” they got to guest on this song and how desperate is he for rent and food money?
You must watch the cover of this by “Bob Dylan.” It actually makes it sound almost deep!
Ok, comment #2 — Hypnotoad, you’ve openned up a whole new world of awful autotuned semi-professionally produced tween girl vids on youtube. Did you see the videos on the side of this one? What’s going on with the world today?!
Lizbot — I think those are from the same company. Apparently, the company makes it a habit of recording tons of tween auto-tuned crapsterpieces.
The original Dylan version is in the link I posted above. It will really change your whole opinion of the world in these troubled times.
Hypnotoad, I realized you were right when I came across another vid with the same creepy stalker “rapper” as in Rebecca’s. How scary is that? I wonder how much of their allowance these girls handed over to these guys in hopes of becoming the female Justin Bieber?
Ew, the same rapper? That’s just weird. I know what you mean though. This company appears to be the internet equivalent of those “make your own music video” places at the mall.
@terrence…we share the same taste in music.
Show me a cheesy pop song and I’ll show you a grown woman who knows all the words and probably has a dance routine to go along with it.
Well, if you hadn’t told me otherwise, I would have assumed this was a parody of Ke$ha.
The nugget of gold under this crap pile has to be the comments on “Dylan’s” cover. It seems half the people are taking issue with the other half who are having a laugh at it. But I like the guy who said he likes the cover because it sounds like it’s about heroin.
@Classy Drunk: Rock on girl.
Yeah ElmStreet if one didn’t know one would think it was a parody. Judging by comments on all the articles that have been written about this poor girl some people still think its a parody. Still say the rap part is way worse than listing the days of the week.
You guys, we are ignoring the true implications of this video:
NADS IS ROBIN SPARKLES!
… except that “Let’s Go to the Mall” and “Sandcastles in the Sand” are amazing and this song managed to be even more awful than Hypnotoad described.
Well I’ve found my new ringtone.
Dammit! It’s been almost 24 hours since this wormed it’s way into my brain and it just won’t freakin’ leave. I may go insane.
Theme song to one of my all-time favorite cartoons, “The Weekenders?” Catchy, quirky and fun.
This autotuned piece of crud?
Lame, lamer, and lamest.
FYI, Hypnotoad, you are so off my Easter wishlist (which I haven’t even begun to devise yet).
Listen to it slowed down 5x. It’s a religious experience.
hey, does anyone know what day it is?
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20474741,00.html
She doesn’t like the mean comments so much. BWAHAHA
They’ve played this song on the radio station I listen to in the morning for the past two days. They kept saying it wasn’t that bad and it was catchy. Although I have been listening them to them for 8 years I might have to go down the dial if they think that this type of music is NOT THAT BAD.
Okay, I’ll weigh in this now that this kid and her family are claiming cyber-bullying.
DO NOT MAKE A STUPID AUTOTUNED VIDEO TO POST ON YOUTUBE IF YOU DO NOT WANT RUDE COMMENTS MADE ABOUT YOU, YOUR SONG, YOUR CLOTHES, YOUR HAIRSTYLE, JUSTIN BIEBER, JESUS, NIRVANA, COURTNEY LOVE, YOUR NATION, OR JEWS! HAVE YOU NEVER READ THE COMMENTS SECTION ON YOUTUBE? AND, TO NADS II PARENTS–IF YOU DIDN’T WANT YOUR KID EXPOSED TO AWFUL, ANONYMOUS PEOPLE FROM THE INTERNET, WHY IN THE HELL DID YOU PAY FOR THIS THING AND THEN LET HER POST IT?
Thank you. May God bless and goodnight.
I don’t know. The song is horrible but the girl is only 13 years old. Maybe she didn’t think that it would somehow rack up 16 million hits and people would tell her to start cutting herself and get an eating disorder so she could be pretty.
Her song most definitely sucks, but I don’t know if I would expect a child to figure out that her song would go so viral that she’d inspire nonsensical hatred from people she doesn’t even know.
I have a feeling that it is Ark Music factory that posted the video on youtube. May have been a part of the package her Mom paid for. Otherwise, I would think that if her parents had any say, it would have been taken down by now if it is upsetting her. Ark Music Factory probably owns it lock stock and barrel.
I thought it looked like she was just a kid having fun. It was probably just supposed to be a fun thing and something for her to look back on and cringe when she gets older. Kinda like prom and yearbook photos.
I say the vitriol should be saved for the person that wrote the song!
TC, Robin
Yeah, I don’t think it’s fair to attak Rebecca Black. It’s not *her* fault that the song is a piece of crap. Telling her she should “cut herself?” WTF is wrong with people? She’s 13! For pete’s sakes. It’s not cool to personally attack her, a teenager, but it’s completely fair to call this song what it is: HORRIBLE and AWESOME. She should be proud that she’s getting so much attention, and hell — she’ll probably get a record deal out of this.
If the parents are claiming cyber-bullying because people are attacking her, then that’s completely warranted. But it shouldn’t be because people are attacking the song itself.
Make some lemonade, Rebecca Black! But don’t write a song about it . . . I can already hear the lyrics to “Lemonade.”
I’ve revised my opinion on this girl and this song. I watched the original video only once, part of the “Dylan” version and part of an excellent “emo” version. And the fact remains, a week later, I can still hear the melody in my head. Which is pretty fucking rare.
And I didn’t realize at the time that the kid is only 13. And that this was just a (wildly expensive but cool nonetheless) gift from her folks.
And then I remembered the days of my childhodd, when I so ardently defended the Archies as being so much infinitely better than the 1910 Fruitgum Company that I was ready to come to blows, right there on the playground. (In my defense, I was only seven…).
So, yeah, now I think this is a great song and I really do wish this kid well.