Rebecca Black's video for the song "Friday" has over 43 million youtube views. The viral sensation has quickly become one of the most blogged-about topics this year. I figured I'd weigh in.
Instead of ranting about how Black's piece is the epitome of the unoriginal, simplistic, formulaic standards of pop [compare this track to "legitimate" hits by Bieber, the Black Eyed Peas, Ke$ha etc.) or about how the tragic lack of complexity in modern music reflects on people's capacity to appreciate art, or about how the Black plague will surely infect a slew of similar trust-fund-tweens who will release vapid "music" about edgy topics such as summer break, or hot topic, or Saturdays, or lol'ing, or tweens of the opposite gender, or parents, or breakfast, or whatever else, I'm just going to juxtapose "Friday" with a song released in 1960 - one of my favorite tunes - a song that I've been listening to and studying for a few years, and let the reader figure out what I'm trying to say.
Friday
Giant Steps
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