Rebecca Black, a 13-year-old singer, has a massive hit on her hands with “Friday”, a song about an eighth-grader getting through her day.
However, it’s also drawn angry criticism from people who are making fun of her lyrics and her voice. The “official” video, which has more than 15 million hits on YouTube, also saw all of its comments reported as spam.
Here’s a report from ABC:
Here’s the video itself:
What do you think?
Loading ...Taking Taio Cruz’s hit “Dynamite” and combining the history and tradition of Hanukkah, the Maccabeats may have given Adam Sandler’s “The Hanukkah Song” a run for its dreidel:
He’s 65 and he can still bring it. Happy birthday to Neil Young!
(Link courtesy Fark.)
Now that the election is over, it’s interesting to see what happens to the losing candidates. Some go back to their old jobs, some into academia, some write books.
Jimmy McMillan has no time for that. He’s got a recording career to worry about.
The New York gubernatorial candidate, running for the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, could only muster slightly less than 40,000 votes in Tuesday’s election, well behind presumed winner Andrew Cuomo. But clearly, McMillan will not go away. Not when there’s a remix involved.
(Check out Jimmy’s videos after the jump!)
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It’s a weird time to be a musician — getting signed to a label, making an album and touring isn’t quite the way things go anymore.
A lot of times, an act has to take matters into its own hands and come up with a new way of getting noticed.
Which brings us to Atomic Tom. Taking the iPhone’s slogan, “There’s an app for that”, to a new extreme, the Brooklyn-based quartet decided to try something new: Make a live music video on the subway.
Without instruments.
OK Go has gone and done it: turned the band’s “White Knuckles” video into a dog fest of a YouTube sensation with a little help from a goat.
The video received a million hits in a day after it debuted on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and was posted online Sept. 20.
Sure, the band’s popular, but this time its owes a debt to Riot, Spike, Justice, Jury, Sequel, Zuni, Kash, Bunny, Peanut, Tin Tin, Kobie and Dazzle. And Ranger, a feisty goat who makes a cameo pulling at a leash in the 3½ minutes of bouncy music, frantic stacking of plastic buckets and canine tricks.
(Check out the video after the jump.)
Flight attendants for a low-cost Philippine airline who dance to Lady Gaga to keep passengers from snoozing through an in-flight safety demonstration are the latest YouTube sensation.
A video of stewardesses performing a choreographed routine aboard a Cebu Pacific flight last week to demonstrate safety procedures has received more than 6.5 million hits after being posted on the popular video sharing website.
It’s gone from viral video, to auto-tuned hit single and now it’s national news: Antonio Dotson and the “Bed Intruder” song has taken on a life of its own.
Last week, “Bed Intruder” climbed the charts after getting the “Auto-Tune The News” treatment by the Gregory Brothers.
NBC’s Today did a report on the phenomenon, catching up with Antonio Dotson, whose initial rant about a serial rapist in the projects where he and his sister live started the whole thing:
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With his divorce to Elin Nordegren final, the Tiger Woods story has officially reached its end (hopefully). Nothing to do now but… check out the autotuned version of his apology.
In the wake of “Bed Intruder”, I thought it might be interesting to see if the Woods apology was ever auto-tuned. Oh yeah! (It’s also been remixed and chopped — clearly there are many with a lot of time on their hands.)
Here’s my favorite of the bunch from lillafluff1, which has a nice electronica light touch and clearly shows a lot of care in how it was tuned:
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