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Music News: Time Magazine reviews Rebecca Black's "Friday"
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Time Magazine reviews Rebecca Black's "Friday"
Will someone change rebbeca to rebecca please 
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By: Megan Gibson
Topics: Ark Music Factory, Arts, Friday, internet, meme, Music, parody, pop, Rebecca Black, Rebecca Black Friday, video, viral, who is rebecca black, youtube
This weekend the internet was mainly transfixed on the disaster in Japan, and rightly so. On a lighter note, there were those who were obsessed with South by Southwest. But amid all the real news, you might just have heard about the Internet's other weekend obsession: Rebecca Black and her hilariously dreadful video for "Friday".
What makes this song and video so bad? Rebecca Black is an innocent-looking teen with a Selena Gomez-esque look. And "Friday" seems like a catchy pop song about a teenage girl's excitement over the weekend, which is pretty standard teen pop fare and not exactly a place you'd look for profound lyrics. But once you listen to the lyrics, you start to realize what a train wreck we're really dealing with.
(More on TIME.com: See the best and worst of the Grammys)
For starters, there's the opening verse, which is just a straight up narration of what Rebecca's morning routine consists of ("Gotta get down to the bus stop/ Gotta catch my bus/ I see my friends"). Then there's Rebecca's apparent obsession with the choosing a spot in the car, which also adds the song's riveting central conflict ("Kicking in the front seat/Sitting in the back seat/ Gotta make my mind up/ Which seat can I take?"). But the song's lowest point (albeit its most hilarious) is when Rebecca literally just sings the days of the week ("Tomorrow is Saturday/ And Sunday comes afterwards").
Yikes! Clearly, we're dealing with a whole new level of bad. According to Black Book, the song comes from a company called Ark Music Factory, which is based in L.A. and seems to specialize in teen girl pop music--their website has a whole roster of laughably bad teen pop videos.
It's not apparent if "Friday" was intended to be a parody of a pop song or not (we doubt it, though we really hope it was), but it would definitely be in Rebecca and Ark Music Factory's best interest to make like it was all along. After all, the video has already been viewed more than 2 million times; it's out there and it's a joke, whether that's how it was intended or not. And seeing how it's available as a ringtone and soon to be available on iTunes, we don't see it going away anytime soon. Sure, Rebecca Black won't be the next Miley Cyrus (though that's not a bad thing) but she could have a future in comedy. (via Black Book)
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/14/...#ixzz1GcGeUemU
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Only read the bold parts the rest is biast . Critical acclaim, your favs could never
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Someone has Britlexia But so does the Rebecca stans.
SHES THE QUEEN
YOUR FAVES COULD NEVA
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Already a social, pop and cultural phenomenon.
Your faves could NEVAH.
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The terms taken out of context to an extreme.  I seriously can't.
But really, three days after a song gets known she's got an article by TIME Magazine done by her. Your faves could never. 
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Perfect Example
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Britlexia
Britney Spears stans suffer from condition called Britlexia. Britlexia is a learning disability that impairs a stan's ability to understand simple logic and read basic English. Even though their reading comprehension is poor they are still able to read record sales, ticket sales, and can understand the word "sold out". This makes reading reviews and critiques difficult, but has no effect on reading 10-year old sales stats.
Example of Britlexia:
Read this paragraph:
Britney appeared last night in Atlanta as apart of a 100-date tour. She appeared three hours late and once she took the stage she drooled on herself, picked her nose, and flicked boogers at people in the front row. She also fell asleep 3 times and urinated on the stage. The sold out crowd, some of whom paid $500 a ticket, began to walk out within 20 minutes. It estimated that the tour will gross over $100 million.
This is how the paragraph appears to a person with Britlexia:
����❚❚❚❚❚❚❚���������100-date tour����� ��✤✶✷✸✹✺✻$500 a ticket���❤❤❤���$100 million.
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The OP is basically suffering from this lmfao
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Have you seen the E.W review? It floored me.
http://music-mix.ew.com/2011/03/14/r...y-music-video/
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, Rebecca Black is the first teen singer to successfully marry the vocal stylings of Miley Cyrus and HAL 9000.
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where Black repeats the words “fun fun fun fun” with all the enthusiasm you would expect from a Catholic missal. She also has a particular way with delivery, making the word “Friday” sound like “fried egg.” And considering the song is called “Friday,” this means you’re in for a lot of fried-egg talk.
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Even better is the verse fixating upon Black’s potentially life-altering decision about where to sit in her friend’s car (“front seat back, back seat, which seat should I take?!” Incidentally, the songwriters apparently thought the “front seat/back seat” conundrum was so salient that she had to sing it twice.)
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yassss QUEEN REBECCA SLAYIIIIIING !!!! 
FRWAAAHHHDAYYY will have the same impact that Umbrella and BOMT had!! MARK MY WORDS!
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When TIME Magazine takes the time to review your song you know you're a legend
Critical acclaimbecca 
I loved how extreme the sentences sound out of context
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Originally posted by YoYo
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D-D-D-D-D-D-DEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATH.
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someone's pressed about rebuddha's success
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Who the **** else !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Did they say possible Grammy nodd? YESS!!!!
Bow in the presence of greatness
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I love how whenever someone praises her, they post a .gif of the dancing chick.
I think she's going to be remembered as much, or even more, than Rebecca.
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I detect Miley shade all over.
I'm not here for that.
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Originally posted by Gui Blackout
Already a social, pop and cultural phenomenon.
Your faves could NEVAH.
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Thankfully my fave is rebecca now
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