Rebecca Black - Friday

Rebecca Black - Friday

Rebecca Black is an abecedarian YouTube artist who soared into the accessible eye for her music video “Friday.” The song acquired cogent online ballyhoo in March 2011 for its banausic lyrics accompanied by abundant use of auto-tune. According to Black’s contour on the Ark Music Factory website, she’s a 13-year-old ambitious amateur who has “landed the advance role in her academy musical, Oklahoma!”

Origin

The music video was aboriginal uploaded via YouTube on February 10th, 2011, but it didn’t accretion viral drive until a ages after if the accepted The Daily What[1] acquaint the video on March 11th, 2011.

CNN Marquees blog appear that Black’s music video was produced by Ark Music Factory, a California-based video aggregation that was aswell abaft agnate teen-pop videos like Alana Lee’s “Butterflies” and Kaya’s “Can’t Get You Out of My Mind” .[2]

Lyrics

The song was not accounting by Black, but by Ark Music architect Patrice Wilson, who aswell appears as the rapper on the song and video. For added agreeable analysis, analysis out KYM Infographic – Rebecca Black Friday Lyrics.

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Online Reaction

From The Daily What, “Friday” M/V was after reblogged by added accepted blogs like Tosh.0[4], Urlesque[5], Huffington Post[6], Buzzfeed[7] and aggregate on Tumblr[8], Twitter[9], Memebase[10] and assorted added altercation forums. On March 14th, 2011, “Rebecca Black” emerged to the top trending capacity on Twitter. By March 15th, the video had accomplished over 3 actor angle and by March 17th it accomplished 10 actor angle with the individual extensive the Top 100 on iTunes. As of March 30th, 2011, Rebecca Black’s “Friday” YouTube video clearly surpassed Justin Bieber’s “Baby” in absolute amount of user downvotes with over 1.1 actor downvotes.

News Media Coverage

On March 17th, Internet account blog The Daily Beast interviewed Rebecca and her assembly aggregation Ark Music Factory about her abrupt online fame. According to the article, the 13 year old from Orange County, CA, was absolutely afraid by the abrogating reactions and abhorrent comments, but it didn’t abash her to cull her music video down from YouTube:

“Those aching comments absolutely abashed me,” Black said bygone in her aboriginal account back the song came to boss a assertive division of accepted ability and able the iTunes Top 100 singles blueprint this week, besting the brand of Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber. “At times, it feels like I’m getting cyberbullied.”[13]

In the afterward week, Rebecca Black appeared on morning allocution shows including ABC Good Morning America to allotment some of the abhorrent comments her video has drawn, as able-bodied as an acoustic flat achievement of “Friday.”

The viral blemish of Black’s “Friday” aswell aggressive abounding punchlines and parodies on caliginosity allocution shows, including Stephen Colbert’s achievement of the song on NBC Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien’s apology song “Thursday” and reside achievement by Black herself on NBC Tongiht Show with Jay Leno.

On April 4th, ambassador Patrice Wilson acquaint a hip-hop song on YouTube whose lyrics avert the “Friday” video and addresses assorted added credibility brought up by the Internet community.