Monday, April 4, 2011 9:36AM - By Joseph Oliveto
Stephen Colbert did it, ladies and gentlemen. After promising fans that he would perform “Friday,” Rebecca Black’s “hit” tween-pop “song” on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” if his fellow TV host could raise a large enough donation, Colbert delivered on his promise last Friday night and took to the stage to belt out what has become one of the most inexplicably popular songs the Internet has given us this side of a Justin Bieber single.
He also happened to be joined by some very special guests. Read on to watch the performance for yourself…
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Friday, April 1, 2011 5:04PM - By Joseph Oliveto
Rebecca Black may never be the subject of a serious tribute album, but thanks to the generosity–and, more likely, curiosity–of the general public, she’ll at least get to say that none other than Stephen Colbert performed a cover of her famous song, “Friday.”
The faux-pundit promised viewers that if Jimmy Fallon could raise $26,000 for DonorsChoose.org, he’d sing the song on his show. Well, according to OK!, the people have been willing to open their wallets for this once and a lifetime opportunity. Read on to see Colbert warming up for the gig…
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Friday, April 1, 2011 9:08AM - By Joseph Oliveto
UPDATE: Well, based on the Facebook shares, it looks like we fooled some of you. This is our idea of an April Fools joke. A strangely plausible one.
In hindsight, we should have seen this coming. As you all know by now, Rebecca Black is the biggest thing to happen to the Internet since Al Gore invented it, with her hysterically repetitive song “Friday” and its low-budget music video making the rounds of Twitter accounts, Facebook profiles, and flooded inboxes everywhere.
While most of us have been quick to mock the young wannabe star, Lady Gaga proclaimed that Black is in fact “a genius.”
It looks like she’s willing to put her money where her mouth is. Black is now in the studio recording her debut album, and Lady Gaga has agreed to add her presence to one of the tracks. What’s the world coming to?
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Thursday, March 31, 2011 8:57AM - By Joseph Oliveto
Rebecca Black appears to know how to turn lemons into lemonade. After earning some major internet notoriety for her song and video “Friday,” the young, uh, “singer” has decided that rather than go on the defensive, she’s going to take her accidental stardom and try to milk it for all its worth.
See, according to Billboard, rather than doing the world a favor and trying her hand at some other skill, Black has instead returned to the studio to record a new tune entitled “LOL.”
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Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:10AM - By Joseph Oliveto
Rebecca Black recently became a household name thanks to the bafflingly awful video to her pop tune “Friday,” which has quickly become one of the most popular internet memes of 2011. While most of us find the song to be hilariously awful and the accompanying video to be nothing short of hysterical, it seems there’s at least one major music star who’s got the young singer’s back.
According to Contact Music, Lady Gaga thinks Black is a “genius.”
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011 8:43AM - By andrewpayne
It’s barely been ten days since Rebecca Black’s infamous tune ‘Friday’ became a viral hit, but it’s already earned a variety of honors: 40 million views, an array of parodies, Morning TV appearances to beat the band, and, most notoriously, the title of the worst song of all time.
But is this last bit really true? Is this thirteen-year-old sensation’s recording of a hastily written song from ARK Productions really the worst song anybody’s ever heard? Hardly. There are dozens hundreds of originals littering YouTube (‘Chocolate Rain’, anyone?) that are much worse, and that’s before you even get to any of the songs released by the contestants of ‘American Idol’.
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Monday, March 21, 2011 9:37AM - By Joseph Oliveto
Rebecca Black’s baffling pop song “Friday” has taken the internet by storm this past week, and we all know what that means: remarkably efficient amateur humorists have been hard at work creating parodies of it for your viewing and listening pleasure. Thankfully, a few of them are pretty damn impressive, and we’ve picked out the best for today’s roundup…
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:58AM - By Joseph Oliveto
Rebecca Black can join the melodramatic prairie dog, numa numa kid, and Justin Bieber as the next member in the “Bizarre and Baffling Things Youtube Has Given Us” club. Like a horrible traffic accident that you can’t peel your eyes away from, the video for her song “Friday” has attracted 2.2 million hits over the course of last weekend.
Let’s take this moment to all utter a collective “WTF?”
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