Did Banksy Create Rebecca Black?



Despite writing this blog, I remain fairly isolated from what's being passed around on the internet-- and I'm sad to report that I learned about this song on NPR-- but even though I was the 38, 945, 234th person to watch the YouTube video of Rebecca Black's "Friday," I think I have something valuable to say about the song (which was written and "created" by Ark Music Factory, supposedly the brainchild of Patrice Wilson and Clarence Jey) and it is this: the lyrics are so unlyrical, the theme is so banal, the music is so auto-tuned, and the video is so literal that this kind of satirical "fun fun fun" could only have been the work of the arch-prankster and super-cool street artist Banksy . . . and I have to admit that the song is very catchy, which is impressive, since it doesn't rhyme, makes no attempt to have a unique voice, coins no new catchy phrase, and contains lyrics about how the days of the week are ordered and eating breakfast cereal . . . unless that line is a veiled marijuana reference: "waking up in the morning . . . gotta have my bowl" . . . only Banksy knows for sure, but this has to be a practical joke on par with the creation of Thierry Guetta (and right now, twenty minutes after I wrote the previous sentence, I still can't get the song out of my head . . . so perhaps "Friday" is brilliant in its stupidity . . . so derivative that it parodies itself . . . Rebecca Black, you are a super-genius in the same realm as Mr. Brainwash!)

4 comments:

  1. Judging solely on this video, I think Rebecca Black's music is aimed at tweenage girls, so there really isn't supposed to be anything deep going on with the lyrics.

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  2. Madeline played that song for me last week and I told her it was terrible and walked away from her so I wouldn't have to hear it. Those ARE the worst lyrics ever. So yeah, it must be a tween thing.

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  3. apparently, high school kids find it really funny when their 41 year old teacher plays this song on the guitar for them. it actually fit into my lesson today, so i went for it. partying, partying, yeah!

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  4. From Madeline. Rumor has it the rapper is her dad. Most kids think it's a joke but they can't stop singing it in the hallways. And tomorrow is Friday, Friday!

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