Rebecca Black: "Friday"- Page 2

[Weez]

Posted: 3/21/11 at 12:02pm

I just want to know who that girl on her left is. It's the great mystery of our age.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/21/11 at 2:35pm

I wish people would forget about this and leave our ears open for such lyrical brilliance as "Rah rah ah ah ah. Roma roma ma. Gaga ooh la la."

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/22/11 at 9:52am

She's a millionaire now. Nice work, America!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 3/22/11 at 12:48pm

Who the fcuk is BUYING that song?!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/22/11 at 1:56pm

If it mitigates the fact that 4Chan was planning to harass the f*ck out of her, I say good for her. The song is abysmal, but it's one thing to mock it on a website and another to plot to harass her at school and at home because of it.

Also, roma roma ma.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 3/22/11 at 2:54pm

If anyone thinks selling 2 million singles makes someone a millionaire, they haven't been following the music business much. Artists used to end up with like $.37 for every full CD sold and from that they had to pay managers, publicists, etc. I have no idea how much one generates from iTunes sales, but I can guarantee it's not half.

Posted: 3/22/11 at 3:04pm

Not even under the most messed up Allan Klein-type deal were artists making thirty-seven cents a CD. Most artists got a couple bucks per disc, with the ones with clout able to command 3 or 4. There is a lot less overhead with a download, however so I'd guess an artist should be able to claim about a quarter for each song they sell.

She is a creature of her record label, apparently, so I'd guess they do take a pretty good bite out of that as label, manager, publisher and songwriter (?).

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 3/22/11 at 3:17pm

I was just going by what Lisa "Left Eye" Lopez said. lol According to them, Pebbles really hung them out to dry.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/22/11 at 3:30pm

At least we know she likes it in the backseat.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 3/22/11 at 5:09pm

I'm naming those moles 'Sarah Jessica' and 'Enrique'.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 3/22/11 at 7:17pm

Friday Sequel 'Saturday'

[JSwanson]

Posted: 3/24/11 at 5:51pm

So many great covers popping up...

Here's my jazz choir looking forward to the weekend.

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 3/24/11 at 10:11pm

ok... that choir is AWESOME! love the guy in the black who looks unhappy to be there and looks separated from the choir! haha

oh and i love the guy yelling "yeah"... awesomesauce!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 3/25/11 at 12:18am

They can use that video as a good reason to cut arts funding for schools, you know.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 3/25/11 at 2:29am

This effing song is STUCK in my head!!!!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/26/11 at 6:47pm

Roma roma ma! Sis boom bah! Wildcats Wildcats rah rah rah!
Lady Gaga: 'Rebecca Black Is a Genius'

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/26/11 at 6:47pm

Forbes' back-of-the-envelope accounting went like this. First, it tallied up revenue from all of those millions of YouTube views. YouTube, owned by Google, grants artists 68 percent of the proceeds earned from advertising on the site through its Partner Program. Forbes figured YouTube makes about $1 per 1,000 page views. Thus, "Friday's" 30 million page views (at the time: It's now up to 43 million) implied $30,000 in revenue, with a cut of $20,000 or so for Black. Then, it added in the earnings from downloads of the new hit single. Forbes initially reported that the song racked up 2 million purchases on iTunes. If iTunes pays out 70 cents per download, and Black keeps all of the proceeds, it makes her a tween millionaire.
But there are a few problems with this accounting. First, the numbers. As for downloads, Billboard reports that "Friday" has sold just 37,000 copies, meaning the song has earned about $26,000. And as for YouTube plays, the number could be lower. Rates depend not just on page views, but also on how many people click on the advertisements. Thus, the song and video have earned perhaps $40,000 and counting—hardly chump change, but hardly $1 million either.
Did Rebecca Black really make $1 million from "Friday"?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/26/11 at 7:36pm

Maybe she can do the FUNNY GIRL revival.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/26/11 at 7:46pm

Maybe she can play on Glee!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/26/11 at 7:48pm

On a special extreme autotune episode.

[broadway86]

Posted: 3/27/11 at 3:34am

I wish people would forget about this and leave our ears open for such lyrical brilliance as "Rah rah ah ah ah. Roma roma ma. Gaga ooh la la."

From a songwriting perspective alone, "Bad Romance" is lightyears ahead of "Friday".

And for the record, Gaga had not seen the video when she made that comment.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/27/11 at 12:41pm

So she passed judgement on it without seeing it. She'd be a natural on BWW!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 3/27/11 at 12:51pm

never been a fan of teenage bubblegum......and thank God my teen years were the late 60's and 70's....and not now

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/27/11 at 1:11pm

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Posted: 3/27/11 at 9:20pm

Phyllis when I read your post I I I so excited