Rebecca Black

A Thanksgiving Song That's Even Worse Than "Friday"!

Remember "Friday," the Rebecca Black song/video that paralyzed America with its banal images of tweens bopping in cars and singing stupid lyrics? Well, a young songstress named Nicole Westbrook can trump that--courtesy of the same writer/producer! And she can't be bothered with a mere Friday for h ... More >>

In Honor Of National Donut Day, The Trollgaze Index Sizes Up Krispy Kreme (The Rapper, That Is)

Yesterday the Alabama rapper Krispy Kreme—think a 21-year-old Paul Wall lookalike who sounds like a Yelawolf impersonator whose tricks are performing with a mouth full of marbles and rhyming "back" with "back," streamed over a super-slow Internet connection"—released the song "Best Frien ... More >>

Katy Perry Covers Jay-Z And Kanye West, Adds Rapping To List Of Things She Is The Worst At

Off the top of my head, I can come up with more "controversial" stances Katy Perry has taken than I can count on one hand: "Ur So Gay" being mean, homophobic, and seemingly aimed at Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz; "I Kissed a Girl" being shock-Sapphic and heteronormative; "You / PMS / Like a bitch / I wo ... More >>

Lana Del Rey Lights Up the Internet

The 11 Most Infuriating Songs of 2011

More reasons to turn off the radio

The Kardashian Mom Was The Original Rebecca Black! Worst Video Ever!

Kris Jenner, the famed Kardashian mom, was always a spotlight craver, it turns out. Social archaeologists have found that she did a video in the '80s to celebrate turning 30--and whoever posted it on YouTube has accurately compared it to that rotten Rebecca Black song. It's that mind-numbingly ba ... More >>

May The Holidays Bring....

​*A toast to Marcus Bachmann: "Bottoms up!" *Lindsay Lohan living behind bars instead of dancing on top of them. *Mothers who keep tiaras off their toddlers.

Underwhelmed And Overstimulated, Part III: Occupying The Year Of The Woman Cliché In Hopes Of Blowing It Up

Kanye West at Occupy Wall Street; confused woman. ​Sound of the City's year-end roundtable, with contributions from Tom Ewing, Eric Harvey, Maura Johnston, Nick Murray, and Katherine St. Asaph, continues. Follow along here. ... More >>

The 11 Most Infuriating Songs Of 2011, No. 11: Kreayshawn, "Gucci Gucci"

​If 2011 had one takeaway, it was this: It's really, really easy to write a song that's by-the-numbers lousy. Rebecca Black's "Friday," the mushmouthed ode to getting down on the weekends, is a prime example; made on a budget, it nonetheless had enough brain-sticking properties to get inside t ... More >>

Why Do People Want Rick Perry To Be More "Disliked" Than Rebecca Black?

​You may have heard that Rick Perry's mind-meltingly horrible anti-gay campaign ad has more dislikes on YouTube than Rebecca Black's "Friday." The story has been covered by Time, the Today Show, and the Huffington Post, among many others. There's only one problem: that's not actually true. The ... More >>

Q&A: Scott Bradlee On Revamping Nickelback, Taste Hierarchies, And Screaming Words

via Facebook​During the Nickelback brouhaha that took over parts of the Internet earlier this month, one of the common refrains against having the Canadian band perform at the halftime show of the Thanksgiving Day showdown between the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions involved the select ... More >>

Rebecca Black Is In Need Of A Good Defense In "Person Of Interest"

​For better or worse one of 2011's most notable music stars is Rebecca Black, the California tween whose warbling of the inanity-filled ode to weekends "Friday" lit up the Internet—and nearly resulted in a slight recalibration of the formula for a "successful" pop song. (Awkwardly pronou ... More >>

Bad Lip Reading: An Interview With the Man Behind The Beautiful Nonsense

BLRHerman Cain, only slightly less coherent when given the Bad Lip Reading treatment.​For several months, it's been hard to take a stroll around the internet without tripping on the Bad Lip Reading video series, which overdubs new speech onto familiar popular videos. The results bear a super ... More >>

HEART2HEART's "Facebook Official": In Which Lance Bass Proves He's Got The Internet-Attention Calculus Down Pat

​Last night, Lance Bass—former 'N Sync member, aspiring astronaut, and now apparently boy-band guru—offered a tutorial on how to get your probably-jokey, possibly-somewhat-serious musical project noticed by those folks on the Internet who are looking for things to giggle at as they ... More >>

Love Your Kids? Do Art on Their Lunch Bags

http://lunchbagart.tumblr.com/​You're a doting foodie parent, and every day your kid's Speed Racer lunchbox is packed with the choicest farmers' market vittles. But could you be an even better foodie parent? There's a dad in San Diego, CA who draws on his kids' lunch bags every day, mainly sc ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Raising The Bar For "YouTube Platinum"

Justin Bieber and Ludacris: Congratulations. A lot of people watched your video.​On August 28, MTV will throw the 2011 installment of its Video Music Awards, honoring achievements in the art form that used to make up the majority of its programming. While it's all too tempting to note the iron ... More >>

Rebecca Black Tries To Prove That She Is An American Who's Got Talent

​If you get into work today and hear people chattering about a young singer named Rebecca Black, no, you haven't been time-warped back to March; the California teen made the jump to the big screen last night, performing an under-two-minute blend of "Friday" and her jab at her detractors "My Mo ... More >>

Live: Kreayshawn Hits The Box For Less Than 15 Minutes

Kreayshawn The Box Thursday, July 21 Better than: Not being in an air-conditioned room. Kreayshawn—an Odd Future outlier and Lil' B acolyte—has skyrocketed upwards since her arrival on May 16, 2011. In the immediate days after "Gucci Gucci" hit YouTube, she spent time in the studio wi ... More >>

Rebecca Black Is Already Singing About Being Famous On "My Moment"

​You know, I actually found Rebecca Black kinda charming back in the day ("the day" in this case being, uh, March). Here was a girl who couldn't sing, or who at least had a fascinatingly weird way of pronouncing certain vowels, and whose parents (perhaps to make up for that?) basically gave he ... More >>

Live: Katy Perry Is Soaking In It At The Prudential Center

​ Katy Perry w/Robyn Prudential Center Sunday, June 19 Better than: Being sent to bed without dessert. Pop music can be a funny thing sometimes. So often, the factors that divide fandom from outright loathing can be completely extramusical, yet they can still inspire frothing at the mouth/ ... More >>

Live: Glee Warbles And Waves At Nassau Coliseum

by Rae Votta ​ Glee Live Nassau Coliseum Saturday, June 18 Better than: A slushie to the face. Getting caught up in a cultural juggernaut leaves you ripe for teasing. I casually followed Glee at the beginning, but I didn't tumble headfirst into true fandom until this season, sacrificing my ... More >>

Live: Bamboozle Stimulates Every Sense (And Then Some)

So much to see, everywhere. ​The Bamboozle Meadowlands April 29-May 1, 2011 Better than: Watching scene reports scroll by on Twitter. In a lot of ways, the Bamboozle is a festival tailor-made for the current moment of constant distraction. The festival's running time over three days totals ... More >>

WNBC Blows The Lid Off The Whole Auto-Tune Story

"From Ke$ha to Indie singer Bon Iver to reality sensations like Rebecca Black and Real Housewife Kim Zolciak," notes WNBC reporter Katie Tur, "artists across the board are using Auto-Tune -- that handy audio tool that makes even the most dreadful voices sound musical -- and other devices to either s ... More >>

Christian Spoof Of Rebecca Black's "Friday"

​The video for "Friday" by Rebecca Black has amassed over 87 million YouTube clicks with its smiley-faced wholesome shit and overreliance on autotune. That's even more people than stopped to look at a fiery car wreck I noticed on the highway the other day. And the video is now such a classic ... More >>

Fun, Fun, Fun for Curtis Granderson and Yankee Fans

When Curtis Granderson came to bat for the Yankees in the second inning of yesterday's home opener against Detroit, the crowd got a nasty shock: the stadium's speakers were blaring Rebecca Black's "Friday," a song so insipid it makes Justin Bieber sound like Lou Reed. Granderson, too, seemed ba ... More >>

Hot Gossip Topics: Natalie Portman's Dancing, Lindsay's Name, Liz's Will....

​They all came up at Daniel Nardicio's "Sh*t Show" last night at Bowery Poetry Club, where I gleefully addressed them all as a gossipy guest star. Here are the topics, followed by my educated stabs at responses to them: 1--Natalie Portman didn't do most of her dancing in 'Black Swan', accor ... More >>

Q&A: Sasha Grey on Auto-Tune, Her Band aTelecine, and Her Favorite Sexytime Music

Courtesy VICE BooksFrom Neu Sex Sasha Grey is one of the most famous porn stars of our generation, and perhaps the first to achieve true crossover success, with starring roles in Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience and HBO's Entourage. You probably know her by name, face, and maybe even v ... More >>

A Musical Guide to Japan Benefits and Valiantly Intentioned Fundraising Efforts, Featuring Thrill Jockey and Rebecca Black

​"I've been inspired by Japan for many years and have a true love, appreciation and respect for the Japanese people and their culture," said early American-adopter and purveyor of Japan's Harajuku girl style, Gwen Stefani. "The disaster in Japan is beyond heartbreaking and I want to do anythin ... More >>

Second Times Square Screen-Jacker Tells Us How He Did It

On Tuesday night, Toronto entrepreneur Adi Isakovic projected images from his smartphone onto a giant advertising screen in Times Square. This is the multimedia stunt de jour; a marketing team gained virility (that's the term for when your video goes viral, right?) when they performed a hoax with th ... More >>