Friday is just about the worst song ever. It's shown just how low the music industry has gotten. Apparently, they just scammed this poor little girl by making her embarrass herself in front of the whole world singing a horribly stupid song. The record company got rich, Rebecca Black and her family were somewhat ruined. It's awful. Back in the day, you actually needed some talent to get into a recording studio, and you had to rely mainly on music rather than a manufactured image to get you popular. Then again, there was some of that going on back then, but it's worse now.
On to the actual song. Musically, it's pretty much dominated by synthy pop beats backed by monotonous electronic drums. This is nothing out of the ordinary for music released today. However, usually the singing is at least somewhat interesting. Black's singing is monotonous and unexciting; it actually sounds nasally. On top of the unpleasant, it doesn't even show any emotion. Toward the end of the song, when the intensity should be building, her vocals are just as dull as ever, with only a little bit of screamed backing vocals indicating that the song is reaching a climax. To be fair, this is probably because of autotune destroying her voice (another major problem with music today. Perfectly good music was being made before autotune ever came out), and I've heard that without autotune she's actually decent. That's why I stress that this disaster is mostly not her fault; it is that of the company that exploited her. That doesn't make the song any better, however.
Lyrically, the song is about having a lot of fun on Friday. The lyrics are full of cheesy, cliche phrases to describe how much fun we gonna have on the weekend. Notably, some of the lyrics have become popular to make fun of on the Internet, and rightfully so. Lines such as "Gotta make my mind up, which seat can I take?" and the middle eight, which is about how Saturday and Sunday come after Friday, are just so laughably bad it's embarrassing. I felt embarrassed listening to the song again to write this review, and there wasn't even anybody around!
The awfulness of this song just cannot be put accurately in this review. Yet, the worst part is that this is only a small step down in quality from a lot of stuff being released today and getting popular, which has similarly boring music and dumb lyrics. Friday just crossed that line far enough for it to become infamous. There's good reason for the official video's approximately 850,000 dislikes on YouTube, though; it really does suck that bad. Actually, though, this isn't even the worst thing ever. Have you ever heard this before? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOrD5kqyov0 (My apologies for your loss of sanity if you were stupid enough to actually watch that video.)
In conclusion, Friday is awful. If for some reason you've never heard it, do yourself a favor and don't ever. The world is just better without it. Bleccchh.
Now if only it were the 70s again.
Wow! That's some bashing waunakonor! Mind you, that song deserves it. The corny words and the nasally vocal are painful!!
waunakonor · Member since
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Cool! Will do!
Friday is just about the worst song ever. It's shown just how low the music industry has gotten. Apparently, they just scammed this poor little girl by making her embarrass herself in front of the whole world singing a horribly stupid song. The record company got rich, Rebecca Black and her family were somewhat ruined. It's awful. Back in the day, you actually needed some talent to get into a recording studio, and you had to rely mainly on music rather than a manufactured image to get you popular. Then again, there was some of that going on back then, but it's worse now.
On to the actual song. Musically, it's pretty much dominated by synthy pop beats backed by monotonous electronic drums. This is nothing out of the ordinary for music released today. However, usually the singing is at least somewhat interesting. Black's singing is monotonous and unexciting; it actually sounds nasally. On top of the unpleasant, it doesn't even show any emotion. Toward the end of the song, when the intensity should be building, her vocals are just as dull as ever, with only a little bit of screamed backing vocals indicating that the song is reaching a climax. To be fair, this is probably because of autotune destroying her voice (another major problem with music today. Perfectly good music was being made before autotune ever came out), and I've heard that without autotune she's actually decent. That's why I stress that this disaster is mostly not her fault; it is that of the company that exploited her. That doesn't make the song any better, however.
Lyrically, the song is about having a lot of fun on Friday. The lyrics are full of cheesy, cliche phrases to describe how much fun we gonna have on the weekend. Notably, some of the lyrics have become popular to make fun of on the Internet, and rightfully so. Lines such as "Gotta make my mind up, which seat can I take?" and the middle eight, which is about how Saturday and Sunday come after Friday, are just so laughably bad it's embarrassing. I felt embarrassed listening to the song again to write this review, and there wasn't even anybody around!
The awfulness of this song just cannot be put accurately in this review. Yet, the worst part is that this is only a small step down in quality from a lot of stuff being released today and getting popular, which has similarly boring music and dumb lyrics. Friday just crossed that line far enough for it to become infamous. There's good reason for the official video's approximately 850,000 dislikes on YouTube, though; it really does suck that bad. Actually, though, this isn't even the worst thing ever. Have you ever heard this before? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOrD5kqyov0 (My apologies for your loss of sanity if you were stupid enough to actually watch that video.)
In conclusion, Friday is awful. If for some reason you've never heard it, do yourself a favor and don't ever. The world is just better without it. Bleccchh.
Now if only it were the 70s again.
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Wow! That's some bashing waunakonor! Mind you, that song deserves it. The corny words and the nasally vocal are painful!!
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Actually, all the song deserves is something more along the lines of
LOL FRDAY SUCKXSSSSSS XP
I gave it a lot more credit than it deserves by typing those paragraphs with complete, coherent sentences.
Oh well, I'm not taking it back now because I'm kind of proud of it.
