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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #40 on: March 22, 2011, 09:43:32 AM »
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 How much does this kid stand to make?

It depends on a few factors. What kind of contract does she have with the producers? I'm relatively sure their deal would include the flat fee she paid them plus a percentage of whatever the song takes in via digital download. She doesn't make anything off youtube views, but the song peaked on iTunes somewhere around number 19 @ ¢.99 a pop. It's at # 42 now - still huge. That's a dollar for every download, minus iTunes fees, minus producers percentage, PLUS all other digital downloads from all other outlets such as CDBaby, etc. It'll probably at least amount to a good college fund.

It also depends on her parent's willingness and the producers savvy at capitalizing on this phenomenon. But if I were her parents, I'd be looking for the end of this right about now, before any damage is done to the future of their daughter. She's being subjected to public cruelty right now, and they should be seeking a way to tamp it down, and looking for the exit.
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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #41 on: March 22, 2011, 02:46:44 PM »
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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #42 on: March 22, 2011, 05:18:35 PM »
Heh.  More than 15 minutes of fame.

I fear her more rabid detractors may, umm, go union-thug and trash her events!

Hope security is good...
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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #43 on: March 22, 2011, 05:18:59 PM »
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OH NO.


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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #44 on: March 22, 2011, 07:03:47 PM »
I'm w/ you, Mr. Infinito, some P.O.S. will likely try something asinine.
As far as her talent...well, there are many other talentless hacks makinjg good dough, so if this is her chance to cash in, great! She ain't hurting nobody.
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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #45 on: March 23, 2011, 06:21:39 AM »
Yeah, if people don't like her singing or music, so what?  The short answer is don't listen to it.  And not to say jerks and clowns have never existed before, but it sure seems like with the advent of the digital age that people feel the need to go out of their way to be a jackass and advertise it all over the web.  So I would be shoicked if some foolishness doesn't happen, best she and her crew prepare accordingly. So I'll just wish her good luck!
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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #46 on: March 23, 2011, 07:35:58 PM »
Arms So Freezy: Rebecca Black's "Friday" As Radical Text

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She offers the camera a hostage's smile, forced, false. Her smoky eyes suggest chaos witnessed: tear gas, rock missiles and gasoline flames. They paint her as a refugee of a teen culture whose capacity for real subversion was bludgeoned away somewhere between the atrocities of Kent State and those of the 1968 Democratic Convention, the start of a creeping zombification that would see youthful dissent packaged and sold alongside Pez and Doritos.

“Look and listen deeply,” she challenges. An onanistic recursion, at once Siren and Cassandra, she heralds a new chapter in the Homeric tradition. With a slight grin, she calls out to us: “I sing of the death of the individual, the dire plight of free will and the awful barricades daily built inside the minds of all who endure what lately passes for American life. And here I shall tell you of what I have done in order to feel alive again.”

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She moves from a home made vexing by obligations to the bus stop and there, in the public sphere, appears to find freedom from authoritarian programming in the form of a Mercedes convertible filled with high-status peers.

They stop and invite her to join them, a moment evoking Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night but with a postmodern twist suggestive of a post-historical amnesia: On this "Friday," it is no longer French leisure but German engineering that promises delivery from the snares of family and self-image.

“Gotta make my mind up,” she sings, overjoyed to finally exert some control over her fate; “Which seat can I take?”

Yet here the discerning viewer notes that something is wrong. Because it is a simple matter of fact that in this car all the good seats have already been taken. For Rebecca Black (her name here would seem to evoke Rosa Parks, a mirroring that will only gain in significance) there is no actual choice, only the illusion of choice.
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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #47 on: March 23, 2011, 08:21:04 PM »
Quote from: rickl on March 23, 2011, 07:35:58 PM
Arms So Freezy: Rebecca Black's "Friday" As Radical Text

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I followed that link at Ace today and read the whole damn thing. Hilarious! Worth the read if you're looking for a good bit of diversionary snark.
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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #48 on: March 23, 2011, 08:43:11 PM »
My 7 year old daughter seemed to like it, but I'm kinda stumped as to why this is garning so much attention.  It wasn't really awful (of course I've been desensitized by a lot of Hannah Montana.)

Not that much worse than Manic Monday:

"It's just another manic Monday
I wish it was Sunday
'Cause that's my funday
My I don't have to runday
It's just another manic Monday"

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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #49 on: March 23, 2011, 08:48:54 PM »
Quote from: michelleo on March 23, 2011, 08:43:11 PM
My 7 year old daughter seemed to like it, but I'm kinda stumped as to why this is garning so much attention.  It wasn't really awful (of course I've been desensitized by a lot of Hannah Montana.)

Not that much worse than Manic Monday:

"It's just another manic Monday
I wish it was Sunday
'Cause that's my funday
My I don't have to runday
It's just another manic Monday"



Heyheyhey!  No pickin' on The Bangles.
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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #50 on: March 23, 2011, 08:55:39 PM »
Quote from: IronDioPriest on March 23, 2011, 08:21:04 PM
Quote from: rickl on March 23, 2011, 07:35:58 PM
Arms So Freezy: Rebecca Black's "Friday" As Radical Text

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I followed that link at Ace today and read the whole damn thing. Hilarious! Worth the read if you're looking for a good bit of diversionary snark.

That is reminiscent of the incident a few years ago, where a physicist wrote a postmodernist deconstruction of modern physics being an act of white male imperialist oppression.  The article was published in an academic journal.  Then he said, "Uh, hey guys, it was a joke."  He used all the right jargon, and the humanities folks bought it hook, line, and sinker.
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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #51 on: March 23, 2011, 08:57:22 PM »
Quote from: Pandora on March 23, 2011, 08:48:54 PM
Quote from: michelleo on March 23, 2011, 08:43:11 PM
My 7 year old daughter seemed to like it, but I'm kinda stumped as to why this is garning so much attention.  It wasn't really awful (of course I've been desensitized by a lot of Hannah Montana.)

Not that much worse than Manic Monday:

"It's just another manic Monday
I wish it was Sunday
'Cause that's my funday
My I don't have to runday
It's just another manic Monday"



Heyheyhey!  No pickin' on The Bangles.

Yeah, the Bangles were smokin' hot.  And so is Miley Cyrus.  She's legal now, so I can lust all I want.
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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #52 on: March 23, 2011, 09:32:35 PM »
This is probably a good place to repost this.  I posted it before, probably on the old site.  I can't find it here.

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« Reply #53 on: March 25, 2011, 05:04:23 PM »
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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #54 on: March 25, 2011, 09:11:37 PM »

...talking about hit parade action.
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Ark's website claims to be creating a community where artists from all fields can come together to build connections and interact.[3] Their website also claims that their dedicated team has industry professionals who have worked with Miley Cyrus, the Backstreet Boys, and Ashley Tisdale.[citation needed]

Ark has recently gained notoriety after one of their performers, Rebecca Black, became a viral sensation. Her song has been heralded...
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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #55 on: March 28, 2011, 08:10:52 AM »
Looks like they decided on a do over...



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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #56 on: April 01, 2011, 07:08:51 PM »
Quote from: michelleo on March 23, 2011, 08:43:11 PM
My 7 year old daughter seemed to like it, but I'm kinda stumped as to why this is garning so much attention.  It wasn't really awful (of course I've been desensitized by a lot of Hannah Montana.)

Miley Cyrus Slams Rebecca Black
“It should be harder to be an artist,” while adding, “You shouldn’t just be able to put a song on YouTube and go out on tour.”[blockquote]~Miley Cyrus, who would have no career whatsoever if not for her famous father and entertainment industry nepotism[/blockquote]

::beertoast:: ::newyear::Happy Friday....  ::newyear:: ::beertoast::
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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #57 on: April 01, 2011, 07:21:37 PM »
Quote from: IronDioPriest on April 01, 2011, 07:08:51 PM
Quote from: michelleo on March 23, 2011, 08:43:11 PM
My 7 year old daughter seemed to like it, but I'm kinda stumped as to why this is garning so much attention.  It wasn't really awful (of course I've been desensitized by a lot of Hannah Montana.)

Miley Cyrus Slams Rebecca Black
“It should be harder to be an artist,” while adding, “You shouldn’t just be able to put a song on YouTube and go out on tour.”[blockquote]~Miley Cyrus, who would have no career whatsoever if not for her famous father and entertainment industry nepotism[/blockquote]

::beertoast:: ::newyear::Happy Friday....  ::newyear:: ::beertoast::

 Screw Miley!!
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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #58 on: April 01, 2011, 07:23:04 PM »
Get in line.  There have been others already ..........
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Re: It's Friday
« Reply #59 on: April 01, 2011, 07:32:31 PM »
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Get in line.  There have been others already ..........

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