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"Friday", performed by [[
▲"Friday", performed by [[Rebecca Black (Music)|Rebecca Black]], is a pop song which went viral in March of 2011. The song is about a girl celebrating the fact that it's Friday. [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|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 listing the days of the week, before some random guy starts rapping about passing a school bus]].
Originally the obscure product of a [[Vanity Publishing|Vanity Studio]] called Ark Music Factory, the song became viral due to its [[Ear Worm|infectious beat]], gratuitous abuse of [[
▲We'd say [[It Makes Sense in Context]], [[Makes Just As Much Sense in Context|but it doesn't]].
In 2021, Rebecca Black released a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCFOcqsnc9Y remake] of this iconic theme.
▲Originally the obscure product of a [[Vanity Publishing|Vanity Studio]] called Ark Music Factory, the song became viral due to its [[Ear Worm|infectious beat]], gratuitous abuse of [[Autotune]] that isn't enough to hide an insanely nasal singing voice, and amusing lyrics, all Ark Music Factory's own fault.
Not to be confused with the several other things called ''[[Friday]]''.
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* [[Aborted Arc]]: [[Enforced Trope|Enforced:]] 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.
* [[Actually Pretty Funny|Actually Pretty Catchy]]: Although ''Friday'' has an infamous reputation for abusing Auto-Tune and having horrible lyrics, [http://music-mix.ew.com/2011/03/14/rebecca-black-friday-music-video/ a few] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120204233731/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/why-rebecca-blacks-much-mocked-viral-hit-friday-is-actually-good-20110315 reviewers] have begrudgingly admitted that they found the song [[Ear Worm|actually pretty catchy]].
* [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]]: Happens with a few words, in particular "Par-tee-ing"
** "Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereAL"
** Also: "Tomorrow is Sat-UR-day, and Sunday comes afterWAAAAAARDS"
* [[Adorkable]]: The girls dancing either side of Black in the car. Rapper "Pato" Patrice Wilson has more than a touch of it in interviews, since he's clearly trying to help people with ARK Music, despite all the trashing he gets in the media.
* [[
* [[A Wild Rapper Appears]]: Patrice Wilson's bridge that comes out of nowhere.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: "Tomorrow is Saturday... And Sunday comes after...wards."
* [[Colbert Bump]]: The video went viral after tweets from comedians such as [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Mike]] [[
** [[Stephen Colbert]] himself sang "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120519222318/http://www.hulu.com/watch/229352/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-stephen-colbert-sings-friday-with-the-roots Friday]" on Jimmy Fallon's show after losing a bet.
* [[Conflicting Loyalty]]: 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}}.
** Made redundant when you realise that all the front seats are full - the only seat she can actually take is in the back.
** The video for the remake solves this neatly: {{spoiler|she is in the driver seat now}}
* [[Dancing
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Inverted. The video seems to portray Rebecca as a high schooler, despite the fact that she's thirteen. Let alone her male friend, who appears to be even younger. [http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/6c4e44a1af/which-seat-should-i-take-w-rebecca-black?rel=player This did not go unnoticed.]
* [[Days of the Week Song]]: "Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday, to-day it is Friday, Friday [...] Tomorrow is Saturday, and Sunday comes afterwards..."
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* [[Epileptic Flashing Lights]]: Happens near the end at the "rave party".
* [[Follow the Leader]]:
** The label that produced it, Ark Music Group, is attempting to find the next [[
** Also, it has already had a series of covers and dramatic readings, as well as several [[Shoddy Knockoff Product|Shoddy Knockoff Products]] such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vR5bfx7Xp8 this one.]<ref>
* [[Gag Dub]]: [[Bad Lip Reading]] did a [[Gag Dub]] of "Friday" called "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GaKaGwch0U Gang Fight]" which made it less about fun and more about gang warfare... and chicken.
* [[In the Style Of]]:
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** Now slowed [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1M5Q3onsX4&feature=related 5x.]
** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qerl2cc53A 8-Bit version].
** [[That Guy With
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KiOdslbFY This] acoustic mash-up with [[
** In honor of ''[[Harry Potter and
*** A [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcJ8-qMd400 Ravenclaw-specific] version.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJESDE62PbE Polka version,] first heard in the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** The obligatory [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXbmeEKTnBE Team Fortress 2 version]. Complete with its own [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaWDUUC9Lj0 Music Video]. <ref>Well part of one, anyway...</ref>
** The [[Slender Man Mythos|Slender Man]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uPEzNRN5_0 Version]
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* [[Morning Routine]]: "7am, waking up in the morning/ Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs/ Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal."
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: When she says "my friend is by my right," she's sitting between two girls. Sorry, girl on the left.
* [[
* [[Poe's Law]]: No less than [https://web.archive.org/web/20120204233731/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 [[SNL]] Digital Shorts by [[The Lonely Island|Lonely Island]]."
* [[Random Events Plot]]: 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 a random rapper interrupting to talk about cruising and how a school bus is passing him by.
* [[Shout
* [[Show, Don't Tell]]: There is no bowl, cereal or school bus to be found, despite being mentioned.
* [[Similarly Named Works]]: With [[Friday|the movie starring Chris Tucker and Ice Cube.]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEswMimzS4w The connection HAS been made, of course.]
** And then there are horror fans who couldn't help but put it together with ''[[Friday the 13th (
* [[Stealth Parody]]:
** [[Poe's Law|According to some]].
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** [[Voodoo Shark|Mayhap the video was filmed in the southern hemisphere?]]
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: It's FRIDAY!!!
* [[What Happened to
* [[What the Hell Is That Accent?]]: ARK Music Factor 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.
* [[Wild Teen Party]]: Averted, despite what the song promises.
* [[Word Salad Lyrics]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GaKaGwch0U The interpretation of the song] by [[Bad Lip Reading]]. It's basically a [[Blind Idiot Translation|Deaf Idiot Translation]].
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* [[Wraparound Background]]: In all three driving sequences, the background keeps repeating.
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