I couldn't watch the whole video in one take. I just couldn't

[progressoid]

Can you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0

What's behind the "worst music video ever"?

Rebecca Black's hilariously awful "Friday" goes viral -- but she's just the tip of a child-performer iceberg

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With lyrics like, "Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday. Today is Friday, Friday. We we we so excited. Tomorrow is Saturday and Sunday comes ... afterwards" -- delivered in Black's dead-behind-the-eyes monotone, "Friday" will haunt your nightmares. Did I mention the tragic rap interlude, where a man with delusions of being Usher throws in a "Whooo!" and something about "passing a school bus"? I'll leave the final verdict on the whole thing to my 7-year-old, a child whose penchant for eating ChapStik suggests she may not have the most discriminating of tastes, who declared of "Friday" that "This is the worst," before stalking out of the room in disgust.

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http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/03/14/rebecca_black_friday_horror/index.html

[MrCoffee]

1. Having never heard of this, I read the Slate article and thought "It couldn't be that bad"

I was wrong.

[progressoid]

3. I know.

I thought I had seen bad before but, :yoiks:

[demmiblue]

2. Omg

Friday, Friday... she needs a neti pot.

Oh, and, whoever invented auto-tune is evil.

That is all.

[LynneSin]

4. Proof once again that catchy phrases + somewhat cute kid + autotune = sure-fire hit

:puke:

talent not required.

[AngryAmish]

5. I bugged out after she got in the car

[Pool Hall Ace]

6. I thought Ke$ha and Katy Perry were bottom of the barrel. Silly me.

But dare anyone say anything about this Rebecca dreck, and they would be criticized for "How could u h8 a young gril lol..." :eyes:

[EOTE]

7. Dylan's version is so much better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FISHEO3gsM&feature=player_embedded

It is nice to know that the kids are being inspired by the greats, though.

[progressoid]

8. Wow, Dylan and Rebecca are really kindred spirits.

:rofl:

[Common Sense Party]

10. Almost as good as "Neil Young" singing "Whip My Hair"

with The Boss.

[MiddleFingerMom]

15. Thank you!!! You brought back a great memory for me.

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A really good friend of mine (and an exceptional human being), who died young
in a motorcycle accident while taking his GF to go see "Cats" on her birthday,
used to do Madonna's "Like a Virgin" on his guitar in a PERFECT Bob Dylan voice.
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I must have heard him do it more than a dozen times... and it never failed to
crack me up BIGTIME.
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[MiddleFingerMom]

9. Wow.

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I just don't see it.
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Cute kids... not highly sexualized kids... just cute and fresh and upbeat.
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No depth to the music/no depth to the lyrics but gimme a break -- they're KIDS.
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It seemed like an VERY refreshing example of good, clean INNOCENT adolescent
celebration of nothing at all -- they don't NEED a cause or a reason for that
(ahem... nor did WE, I feel compelled to remind everyone).
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It sucks. But I don't think it's toxic for its intended audience, as so much music
IS nowadays. It follows the Hippocratic Oath -- "Above all, do no harm."
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I hope to never hear it again.
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I also think that, age-appropriate... it's pretty damn cool.
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Now... ... ... ... who's the inconsiderate jerk who "forgot" to return my "Up
With People" album?
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[Frank Cannon]

11. There's a crapload of these out there that are even worse than this.

Ark Music Factory is just one of the culprits. Apparently, a whole flock of these "labels" are producing this type of video, patiently sifting through any number of gawd-awful kids of rich daddies to try to find the next billion-dollar Bieber in the rough.

[Lucian]

12. I like how they disabled the ratings for that video.

My god, my ears, they're bleeding...so bad. Rebecca Black makes Bob Dylan sound like Luciano Pavarotti.

[nolabear]

13. Oh come on; she's part of an old adolescent tradition.

I give you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h02oh5Ri4Y0

[MiddleFingerMom]

14. Wow! THANK YOU!!!! I never realized Annette covered a Velvet Underground song. n/t

[nolabear]

16. And then there's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxtyAC59AeE

Ah yes, the good old days, when talent was talent and this wasn't it.