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'Sup, pogs!
Let's all go to the movies, and let's all see the same movie, and let's discuss it here.
Gabe loves fan fiction. You Can Make It Up features his own personal alternate adventures starring some of our favorite characters.
After watching Death Sentence, a terrible movie starring Kevin Bacon as a father in search of vigilante justice directed by Saw's James Wan, Gabe embarked on The Hunt For The Worst Movie of All Time. This is his sad journey.
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s okay SoG, you’re still the second most talented thirteen-year-old we know.
I turned fourteen last month, so now I just have to catch up to Hailee Steinfeld.
And yet we’re still left wondering where the Rebecca Black Disney show is.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/06/snl-miley-cyrus-disney-acting_n_831998.html
“The funeral’s Fri-i-day, Fri-i-day!”
This is the way a meme ends
This is the way a meme ends
This is the way a meme ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
A moment of silence, please, for the argument that Rebecca Black might be talented without her bonehead producers.
It’s Eliot, Eliot,
Gonna get down on Eliot!
Let me just get a swig of this battery acid before i settle in for this video…. there we go!
::thud::
Boxxy’s Theme
For anybody wondering, she says “my moment” exactly 28 times.
sounds like burning!!!
Rebecca Black: “Shouldn’t the chorus be ‘That was my moment,’ since my moment clearly passed months ago?”
Famous Producer: “YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP AND SING WHAT WE TELL YOU TO SING”
All of the upvotes!
Great bangs! #Bangs
Honest assessment (without having heard a second of the song and only watching maybe 10 seconds of the video on mute at work) … it’s no ‘Margaritaville’.
I don’t know if anyone’s read Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers,” but one of the central focuses of the book is on the idea of “10,000 hours,” namely that it takes approximately 10,000 hours of practice in order to become elite at anything. Everyone from Bill Joy to Rachmaninoff to Jose Bautista to Picasso to the Beatles all got their 10,000 hours in before they became well-known and respected artists and athletes. Another main focus of the book is on the idea of opportunity. Namely, that environment plays a much larger role in success than people like to admit. The problem with instant Youtube stars is that anyone can put anything out there, and anyone can see it. If the right thing is seen by the right person at the right time, fame can be instantaneous, taking out one of the factors of environment. However, it doesn’t take out the need for the 10,000 hours of practice. Consequently, people are thrust in the spotlight when they aren’t ready. Now, I’m not saying that Rebecca Black is some sort of pop genius, or even has the potential to be, but the fact that she’s internationally known before she’s probably even hit 1000 hours means that people are judging her before she should be judged. She is now even more unlikely to ever reach her full potential than if she had never made “Friday,” as she’s being dismissed as a joke, and everything she makes hereafter will also be considered a joke. Because it is! This video is terrible! No duh. Not really sure what I’m trying to say with all of this, other than I feel a kind of sympathy for her, and that people should practice more.
That’s why Tracy McGrady was never Tracy Mc-Great-dy, according to Malcom Gladwell.
Rebecca Black’s friends picked her up and took her to Carnegie Hall.
You make a strong argument, but may I present the counterpoint to end all others:
Thank you.
to sum up: outliers is a good book and the beatles are a good band because they practiced. also, if you’re born at the end of the year in Canada, you will never be good at hockey.
Thanks for presenting this theory. Now I’m going to have to do some math to figure out the exact 10,000th hour at which I became an elite masturbater.
Gross comment, OMGeorge – Everyone
“She is now even more unlikely to ever reach her full potential than if she had never made “Friday”
“Good, let her be miserable with the rest of us”–unemployed middle class.
Fool me once, etc.
I’m passing on this.
Take that, internet.
Take that, Rebecca Black.
Roger Daltry: Rebecca Black:: Pete Townshend: Ark Music Factory
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Don’t you dare compare that man’s voice to Rebecca Black and her autotuned third rated warbling.
Counterpoint: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyNDl3q35yA
I said voice.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine Rebecca Black singing in a human ear – forever
A rare miss, Ark Music Factory.
This isn’t Ark, I think they split up over copyright issues, which is why the magic is gone.
shhhhhhhh
This is somehow worse than Friday?
Needs more old dude rapping.
Guys, I don’t think she gets why she’s so popular. This is awkward.
One major problem I have with my generation is that we think that no matter what we do, it is right and anybody who tells us different is a hater who is just jealous of me because I’m so awesome and perfect in every way. Every song on the pop charts now is about how great and talented the singer is. This is probably the generation with the biggest ego ever and I’ll blame the self esteem movement, not keeping score in games at school, not keeping grades anymore etc. this is a generation of whiners who don’t know how to lose and when they finally do lose because they inevitably will, they don’t know how to deal with it and wind up doing something like this, which is just embarrasing. But odds are that dhe’ll never regret this because the haters were too stupid to realize how great she is and she quit because she was tired of putting up with them. I guess what I’m trying to say is shut the fuck up, Son of Gabe!
It’s scary saying that as someone who is beneath the legal drinking age, but I agree with this. Failure is not allowed anymore.
Remind me to buy you a beer in eight years, man.
My Moment: The cursor hovering over the play icon as some sort of thoughtless automatic response, then realizing that I actually did not need to click on it.
My Second Moment: Remembering to close html tags.
I like how the guitar player is always jamming, even when only a shitty synthesizer is audible.
The unplayed video image looks like Lucille Bluth’s driver’s license.
Needs more oomph.
FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Out of morbid curiosity I clicked play. My computer then punished me by not responding to the click to MAKE IT STOP. Well played, computer…well played. Lesson learned.
Bad move, Rebecca Black’s manager. Nobody wants to see her really trying to do a real song and video. We want to laugh at her, not cheer for her success!
is it too late to make this the official anthem of the women’s world cup?
I think making Rebecca Black famous is the world’s way of playing a perfect game theoretic mixed strategy so that there is still an incentive for the internet to make, well, anything. Also, boobs.
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I would actually like to see her succeed. Plus in [number] of years all of the blogs will be talking about how she’s 18 now AND LEGAL! AMIRITE?!
No. People won’t be talking about that.
How did she acquire the funds to pull this off? Rich parents? Still confused.
This is my moment!
This is obviously a song about RB (that’s right, initials) getting her first period. Is it any wonder she finishes the video in a RED DRESS, and that her mother’s face in the limo is all covered in RED PAINT because she drinks away the pain of having this monstrosity as a daughter!? AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICES THIS!!??!!
On a lighter, more sympathetic note, knowing RB’s enthusiasm and anxious anticipation for Fridays, it would be a real bummer if ‘her moment’ always came on one.
Shouldn’t “this is my moment” be past tense?
I was watching the paparazzi at the end and just thinking of how they must feel knowing they have to be annoying and intrusive to get a good shot. I know that being annoying and intrusive is required for the job, but I started thinking how funny it might be to see a series of photos taken by a very passive and polite paparazzo or maybe to watch said paparazzo in action during a big red carpet moment. “Oh, sorry. Am I in your shot? Darnit! I keep telling myself, ‘You can’t get in other photographers’ shots if you want to make friends in the biz.’ Again, so sorry.”
Note that she is going to make paper and blow up…and we wonder why my friend’s kid said, “I don’t need to go to college, mommy. I’m going to be a pop star.”
Is it wrong that the thing that bothered me most about this video was that some of the dancers in that weird ass dance montage were So You Think You Can Dance all-stars? Not sure where that leave me…