Line #43 Music/Friday


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3	->"''It's Fry-ee-day, Fry-ee-day, gotta get down on Fry-ee-day...''"
4	-->-- '''Rebecca Black'''
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6	"Friday" is a pop song performed by Music/RebeccaBlack, released in February 2011 and going viral shortly thereafter.
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8	The song is about a girl celebrating the fact that it's Friday. [[MundaneMadeAwesome And eating cereal. And choosing between the front and back seats of her friends' car when there's only a seat in the back open.]] And [[DaysOfTheWeekSong listing the days of the week]], before [[AWildRapperAppears some random guy starts rapping about passing a school bus]].
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10	We'd say ItMakesSenseInContext, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext but it doesn't]].
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12	Originally the obscure product of a [[VanityPublishing Vanity Studio]] called ARK Music Factory, the song became viral due to its infectious beat, gratuitous use of AutoTune, mind-numbingly bland melody, and amusing lyrics, all ARK Music Factory's own fault. Specific outlets credited with boosting the song's notoriety include ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', Podcast/RiffTrax comedian Michael J. Nelson, and the ''Series/Tosh0'' blog.
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14	The original video was taken down from Website/YouTube in June-July 2011 due to a copyright claim by Black herself. As of September 16 that year (a Friday, appropriately), the video has been restored on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0 Black's official YouTube channel]].
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16	Because the song and its video were effectively the product of ARK Music Factory, both are ultimately just brief blips on Black's early career, who would spend the next decade maturing and developing herself as a mostly independent artist. With her name still being attached to "Friday" by 2021, she released [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCFOcqsnc9Y a 10-year anniversary remix]] featuring Music/ThreeOhThree, Music/DorianElectra, Big Freedia, and produced by Dylan Brady of Music/HundredGecs. With the remix this time ''[[StylisticSuck intentionally]]'' taking everything obnoxiously poppy about the original track and cranking it up to the max, indebted to a new sonic direction inspired by {{hyperpop}} (with all of the featured artists being popular in the genre), the remix gained surprisingly positive reception from fans and critics alike, so it appears like she got the last laugh on the matter.
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18	Not to be confused with "Last Friday Night" by Music/KatyPerry, whose video features Black.
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21	!!Tropes associated with this song:
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23	* AbortedArc: {{Enforced\|Trope}}: Rebecca's quest to catch the bus ends around 2 seconds in, when her friends show up in a car. She later said that there wasn't enough money to rent a bus for the video.
24	* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable:
25	** Happens with a few words, in particular "Par-tee-ing"
26	** "Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereAL"
27	** "Tomorrow is Sat-UR-day, and Sunday comes afterWAAAAAARDS"
28	* AscendedExtra: Benni Cinkle, the girl in pink/friend on the right [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHuNeKkVcIk has a couple of]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH_RpBef_5E songs out too.]]
29	%%* AutoTune: Extensively.
30	* CaptainObvious: "Tomorrow is Saturday... And Sunday comes after...wards."
31	* CarloadOfCoolKids: The kids are driving down the road in a [[http://imgur.com/oFJriu4 convertible, complete with passengers sitting on the rear deck, going to a party.]]
32	* ConflictingLoyalty: The back seat, or the front seat? Which seat will she take? Which group of friends will she align herself with? [[spoiler: She picks the back seat]]. [[ForegoneConclusion It is made redundant]] when you realise that all the front seats are full - the only seat she can actually take is in the back.
33	* DancingOnABus: Rebecca and her unnamed friends dance in the car ([[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible not a bus]]) despite the car moving quickly.
34	* DaysOfTheWeekSong: "Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday, to-day it is Friday, Friday [...] Tomorrow is Saturday, and Sunday comes afterwards..."
35	* TheDitz: Black is portrayed as rather stupid in the video. She forgets about school, takes a long time deciding where to sit in a car, and stands up in the back without a seatbelt despite the obvious risk.
36	%%* DooWopProgression
37	* EpilepticFlashingLights: Happens near the end at the "rave party".
38	* ForegoneConclusion: There is only a seat open in the back of her friends' car, so the choice between front and back is easy.
39	* GagDub: Music/BadLipReading did a GagDub of "Friday" called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GaKaGwch0U Gang Fight]]" which made it less about fun and more about gang warfare... and chicken.
40	* InstantWakingSkills: Rebecca rises at 7am like she never actually went to sleep.
41	* InTheStyleOf:
42	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFkNhJLejZw rap remix.]]
43	** And the Music/BobDylan [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FISHEO3gsM cover.]]
44	** Similarly, Music/TheDoors' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_bPsmXg-BM version.]]
45	** Can't forget the Music/MeatLoaf [[http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/81ff72e5e2/rebecca-black-friday-meat-loaf-version cover.]]
46	** Done by Rebecca herself with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CBzT2pv1Jc acoustic version]], which is basically "Friday" [[SofterAndSlowerCover as an inspirational ballad]].
47	** Music/TheMidnightBeast did an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGslnol566I acoustic cover]] as well. They did it as a straight cover, but called it a parody anyway, because in Stefan's words, "the lyrics are funny enough."
48	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxleH60hDJY This]] TrueArtIsAngsty take. It [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning twists the meaning]], featuring a lot of LyricalDissonance.
49	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AcYsHkV6n4 The "In Hell" Cynical Mass Remix.]]
50	** [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhxsg1_stephen-colbert-and-jimmy-fallon-friday_fun This]] redux, with Creator/StephenColbert's best Music/JohnnyCash impression, Creator/JimmyFallon on autotune, and generally soaked in MundaneMadeAwesome. Oh, and [[Series/AmericanIdol Taylor Hicks]].
51	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWv1ut-zcCY&feature=related Crash City]] version.
52	** Apparently, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xXlUTW2eVQ&feature=player_embedded Fanny Goldberg]] sang this in 1932.
53	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP887IpQL00 orchestral]] version.
54	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiTFiRb_K8k screamo]] version, as well as the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi00ykRg_5c deathcore]].
55	** A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw8IEd3LDzg contemplative ballad]] by a guy with a(n epic) mullet.
56	** The aptly named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rv1BZcksIc&feature=related EPIC EDITION.]]
57	** The Creator/ChristopherWalken [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzfQwXEqYaI version.]]
58	** There's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S255iJ9nlvc&feature=player_embedded a version that only edited the music video]] but it's still extremely funny.
59	** Music/AmandaPalmer's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrsY3i-JzM0 "Friday, told from the viewpoint of a truck-stop hooker."]]
60	** Music/KatyPerry's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM51ANnSgsU cover.]]
61	** ''Series/{{Glee}}'s'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey-VNes5YQs version]]
62	** And, in order to celebrate the Rapture, we present [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO1bT6RArjc Doomsday]]!
63	** Alex Carpenter's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhrNoJoSDk4 cover.]]
64	** Now slowed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1M5Q3onsX4&feature=related 5x.]]
65	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qerl2cc53A 8-Bit version]].
66	** Website/ChannelAwesome [[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/fridaymusicvid-5300656 version]]
67	** In honor of Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvgVMecNp0c Harry Potter version]]
68	*** A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcJ8-qMd400 Ravenclaw-specific]] version.
69	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG4zSd8H-fs Polka version,]] first heard in the WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic AbridgedSeries "WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft".
70	** The obligatory [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXbmeEKTnBE Team Fortress 2 version]]. Complete with its own [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaWDUUC9Lj0 Music Video]].[[note]]Well part of one, anyway...[[/note]]
71	** The [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uPEzNRN5_0 Version]]
72	** Music/RichardCheese did a cover. FUN. FUN. FFUN. FFUN.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjpn5x8oDGc]]
73	** Now used in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH6d4Adm9U a commercial]] for Kohl's.
74	** [[Franchise/TouhouProject Yukku Reimu's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf9FRmh9ZpE version.]]
75	** '''DEATHSPEEDBLACKHEAVYSLUDGEINDUSTRIALGLAM METAL [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi00ykRg_5c FRIDAY!!!!]] SATAN IN THE FRONT SEAT! SATAN IN THE BACK SEAT!!'''
76	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3f3pTbKmow parodied by]] physician/Internet personality [=ZDoggMD=].
77	** In the style of Music/{{Motorhead}}, from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyksRHOrXWI Moonic Productions]].
78	* LiteralMusicVideo: "Friday" is about the day of the week, Friday.
79	* MissedTheBus: This appears to create the main source of tension in the narrative, [[SubvertedTrope before Rebecca's friends arrive in their car]].
80	* MorningRoutine: "7am, waking up in the morning/ Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs/ Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal."
81	* MostWritersAreAdults: Part of what brought the song in for mockery. The songwriters were clearly trying to make a fun party anthem that would be relatable for the teens, but apparently they failed to consider that middle schoolers are not old enough to drive, and are almost certainly not going out by themselves to wild parties on the weekend.
82	* MundaneMadeAwesome: It's FRIDAY!!!
83	* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: When she says "my friend is by my right," she's sitting between two girls.
84	* PainfulRhyme: "Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal". The bridge also rhymes "Friday" and "excited".
85	* PoesLaw: No less than [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/why-rebecca-blacks-much-mocked-viral-hit-friday-is-actually-good-20110315 Rolling Stone]] opined, "If the video was intended to be a parody of teen pop convention, it would be on par with some of the best ''[[Series/SaturdayNightLive SNL]]'' Digital Shorts by [[Music/TheLonelyIsland Lonely Island]]."
86	* RandomEventsPlot: Of the more mundane variety. A daily morning routine followed by missing the bus, getting a ride from her friends, then throwing a party. With [[AWildRapperAppears a random rapper interrupting]] to talk about cruising and how a school bus is passing him by.
87	* ShamelessSelfPromoter: The first line in the song is "Yeah... Ar-Ar-Ar-Ar-Ar- ARK!" That is, ARK, as in the record label.
88	* ShoutOut: The calendar in the opening has a few references to other [[DaysOfTheWeekSong songs associated with days of the week]], such as "[[Music/TheMonkees Pleasant Valley Sunday]]", "[[Music/TheBangles Manic Monday]]", "[[Music/LynyrdSkynyrd Tuesday's Gone]]", and for the titular Friday, "[[Music/{{The Cure\|Band}} Friday I'm In Love]]".
89	* ShowDontTell: There is no bowl, cereal or school bus to be found, despite being mentioned.
90	* TimeLapse: When Rebecca is downstairs singing "Seein' everything, the time is goin'", the family behind her moves in fast-motion.
91	* ViewersAreMorons: The lyrics take the time to explain that Friday is the day that comes after Thursday and is followed by Saturday and Sunday.
92	* WakeupMakeup: Rebecca wakes up in full makeup.
93	* WeirdMoon: What is with that moon? It almost doesn't look real. [[ArtisticLicenseSpace Oh yeah, it's upside down!]]
94	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Her male friends mysteriously disappear from the car and are replaced in a later shot by two females.
95	* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: ARK Music Factory co-founder Patrice Wilson, thanks to growing up in Africa, moving to Eastern Europe as a teenager, and moving to the US as an adult.
96	* AWildRapperAppears: Patrice Wilson's bridge that comes out of nowhere.
97	* WildTeenParty: Subverted, despite what the song promises, there is no such thing.
98	* WordSaladLyrics: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GaKaGwch0U The interpretation of the song]] by Music/BadLipReading. It's basically a [[BlindIdiotTranslation Deaf Idiot Translation]].
99	-->"I'm grabbing a routine vaccination, with chicken and sweet carp on the side."
100	* WraparoundBackground: In all three driving sequences, the background keeps repeating.
101	* YouNoTakeCandle: "We so excited".
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104	!!Tropes associated with the 2021 remix:
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106	* AutoTune: Rebecca's voice is heavily tuned for effect.
107	* TheManInTheMoon: 3OH!3's face is superimposed on a full moon. There is even a ShoutOut to ''Film/ATripToTheMoon'' when a rocket lands in his eye.
108	* PosterGalleryBedroom: Rebecca's bedroom walls are full of posters.
109	* POVCam: Scenes during the first verse are shown from Rebecca's point of view as she wakes up, dresses and has her cereals.
110	* SpeedyTechnoRemake: Of the 2020s {{Hyperpop}} variety, unlike the europop ones of the 2000s.
111	* AWildRapperAppears: This time it's Big Freedia who enters for a rapping bridge.

Context Music / Friday