Rebecca Black "Friday"

this one is pretty bad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHj85oyYpfI

Tomorrow is Saturday… and Sunday is afterwards.

Whats wrong with Manic Monday by the Bangles!!! What a tune, in fact every monday morning its the first song i switch on, when walking to work, then I sorta skip along the road and wave to everyone, wishing all the time that it was sunday.

i think it’s ok to question entire decades of music. some decades (or spans of years) completely suck. usually happens after one group becomes super successful in a particular genre and then all the “me too” bands are churned out by the record companies looking to cash in on the trend. usually takes some time for the sheeple to say ‘ok no more of this crap’…….untill the next trend emerges and the cycle begins again.

I blame the Sri Lankan Rajaratnam idiot who composed the song and the out-of-place brother rapping in the video.

Yeah, for a 13 year old, it’s pretty impressive. But what makes my skin crawl is the feeling that daddy or mommy just made (or gave in to her daughter’s request to be in) a music video for their daughter to put on the internet and look like she did it all herself.

(Now I guess it’s possible that she did do it all herself, in which case, that is pretty impressive, but it just seems unlikely that a 13 year old can do a video of that quality without someone else putting up the bucks to buy the talent to do lighting and sound and hire the groupies to be the faux background dancers and all).

Blake McCallister Wrote:
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> bchadwick Wrote:
> ————————————————–
> —–
> > Yeah, for a 13 year old, it’s pretty impressive.
>
> > But what makes my skin crawl is the feeling
> that
> > daddy or mommy just made (or gave in to her
> > daughter’s request to be in) a music video for
> > their daughter to put on the internet and look
> > like she did it all herself.
> >
> > (Now I guess it’s possible that she did do it
> all
> > herself, in which case, that is pretty
> impressive,
> > but it just seems unlikely that a 13 year old
> can
> > do a video of that quality without someone else
> > putting up the bucks to buy the talent to do
> > lighting and sound and hire the groupies to be
> the
> > faux background dancers and all).
>
>
> Her parent’s paid 2k. Big deal. I know kids who
> had multiple horses growing up, were given brand
> new cars, had both their undergrad and grad or law
> school educations paid for.
>
> Jimmy Iovine isn’t going to write a song for 2k so
> obviously it isn’t going to be a pop masterpiece.
> Look at the garbage songs Kim Kardashian, Paris
> Hilton, et al have put out. No one has ripped
> them.

That’s because those chicks are hotter and legal. This chick is good for nothing.

Lay off Wang Chung.

Take a look at this video, so many truths….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoN6XfyQsr4

fun fun fun this is so much fuuuuun.

wake2000 Wrote:
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> fun fun fun this is so much fuuuuun.

we so excited!!!!!!! Friend on the left, friend on the right!

Blake McCallister Wrote:
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> bchadwick Wrote:
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> —–
>
> >
> > Are you sure that no one has ripped Kim
> Kardashian
> > or Paris Hilton? Ever???
> >
> >
> > It still makes my skin crawl a bit. Imagine
> how
> > this conversation might have gone:
> >
> > “So, my darling daughter, what do you want to
> be
> > when you grow up?”
> >
> > “I want to be famous, Daddy, just like Lindsay
> > Lohan, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Kim
> > Kardashian!”
> >
> > “Great, baby, here’s $2,000 to go make a video
> and
> > put it on YouTube. That should do the trick.”
> >
> > “Oooh, DADDY! Thanks so much! And once I’m
> done,
> > I think I’ll go and make another video to go
> along
> > with it.”
>
> Pretty sure that when they were 13 they weren’t
> referred to as “worthless garbage” and told to
> “cut themselves and bleed to death” but, hey what
> do I know.

What do you know? What I know is that the world is a big place and that teenage girls call each other worthless garbage all the time. And as adults, there are plenty of people who detest Paris and Kim for the celebration of shallowness that they embrace and represent.

BTW, I think calling the girl “worthless garbage” is uncalled for. I think the video is silly, but that doesn’t mean she is garbage. And I am worried about a bigger issue, which is that it used to be that people wanted to be famous FOR something - some kind of contribution to society; today it seems that one should just try to be famous for being famous sui generis, and I’m uncomfortable with adults who feed this desire for attention for attention’s sake.

I’m fully aware that to some extent, this kind of thing has been going on for centuries, but the Internet seems to make it much more acute and public.

>
> I doubt the girl said she wanted to be the next
> Katy Perry or Justin Bieber. That would be like
> you announcing at morning meeting that you are
> going to be the next Steve Cohen. Imagine the
> laughs your colleagues would have.

Actually *wanting* to be the next Steve Cohen would not have my colleagues laughing, they would admire that, because Steve Cohen has a list of admirable accomplishments, and that represents ambition. What would make them laugh is to say that I *am* the next Steve Cohen, because that demonstrates a lack of perspective about what it takes to do that and be that.

I don’t even bash the girl for wanting to do a video; but I do worry about what guidance she has gotten from her parents about what that kind of exposure can do. e.g. Lindsay Lohan. But my guess is that the parents want to be famous just as much as their daughter, and are basically pimping her out (figuratively) without telling her what the risks are.

And, there is the possibility that she just made this video for her friends to share with each other, and that she didn’t realize that she’d be splayed out all over the place… but if that’s the case, why spend 2 grand on the production value.

> Just like when that family put the smiling baby
> video on Youtube they weren’t probably expecting
> to be flown into Manhattan and go on the Today
> show and Good Morning America. Things happen with
> the internet.

That’s true. I’ve been on the internet too! Stuff happens there. ;-)

BChad you’re the man. You are still killing it these days.

she is not bad looking.