Rebecca Black's New Single

[Gagarin]

love the chick with electric guitar that is turned off

 

[Ringo619]

anything is better than friday , anything! does she still use auto tune or what?

 

[CarbonX13]

My god that was awful. I had to stop it after about 45 seconds.

If you need to autotune your voice, get the fuck out of the music business.

Well, you can kiss goodbye 99% of the music industry then.

 

[Nathan Drake]

It wasn't, well, awful. I mean, I certainly wouldn't carry it around with me, but the song quality is definitely up from Friday.

 

[Shinigami357]

I decided to value whatever sanity I have left by not listening/watching this.


Me: 1 | Teenagers who think infamy = stardom: 0

 

[Nathan Drake]

It really isn't terrible. If you aren't a fan of auto-tuning, I would stay away. Otherwise, it is slower paced, the words actually have some obvious meaning (kind of like a big F U), and it doesn't have 13/14 year old kids driving around.

 

[Tonitonichopchop]

Eh, it's a pretty poor song overall, but compared to Friday I'd say it's decent. The only part I absolutely despise is the bit later in the song when she sings about her haters and that she's making money. She'd do better to ignore them all together.

 

[KingVamp]

It really isn't terrible. If you aren't a fan of auto-tuning, I would stay away. Otherwise, it is slower paced, the words actually have some obvious meaning (kind of like a big F U), and it doesn't have 13/14 year old kids driving around.
I agree it better, but Friday had a "charm" to it.

QUOTE(Tonitonichopchop @ Jul 19 2011, 01:03 AM) Eh, it's a pretty poor song overall, but compared to Friday I'd say it's decent. The only part I absolutely despise is the bit later in the song when she sings about her haters and that she's making money. She'd do better to ignore them all together.

Well she may have thought the same thing,but wanted to make the song a little longer.

The next song would probably be base on this. (calling out to the haters...)

New song "My Moment is On Friday."

 

[notmeanymore]

If she ever trains her voice to the point where she can sound like this without autotune, then I may acknowledge her as an artist.

 

[Veho]

Meh, Friday was so bad it was good, this is just plain boring.

 

[ShakeBunny]

I hate this sort of thing. Some snotty 14-year-old that can't sing gets signed, and then gets tons of exposure for a terrible song she didn't even write while thousands of exceptionally talented bands and artists go unnoticed.

Her lyrics no depth.
She can't sing.

I wish people would just acknowledge her as a failure, so maybe someone actually deserving will get a little exposure.

 

[Shinigami357]

I hate this sort of thing. Some snotty 14-year-old that can't sing gets signed, and then gets tons of exposure for a terrible song she didn't even write while thousands of exceptionally talented bands and artists go unnoticed.

Her lyrics no depth.
She can't sing.

I wish people would just acknowledge her as a failure, so maybe someone actually deserving will get a little exposure.

Welcome to the internet, where the most inane of things in God's not-so-green-anymore Earth can [and in all probability will] get famous.


Like those darn ponies!!!

 

[Serina]

I love how it goes from "I'm strong and I can do this!" to "Yeah, I'm better than you. by the way" towards the end. complete character shift kind of ruins the rest of the song.. (not that it's that great) but if it had least been self-consistent I would have respected it for what it was.

 

[Raika]

Slightly better than Friday, but still shit.

She doesn't deserve this much fame and recognition, there are much better obscure musicians out there.

 

[stinkoman]

We don't need this in USN.

;O;. I actually wasn't sure though where to put it considering the amount of hype her first song got.


This sure as hell ain't news. should go under music section.

This sure as hell ain't music. should go under the eof.

QUOTE(penguindefender @ Jul 19 2011, 10:24 PM)

I hate this sort of thing. Some snotty 14-year-old that can't sing gets signed, and then gets tons of exposure for a terrible song she didn't even write while thousands of exceptionally talented bands and artists go unnoticed.

Her lyrics no depth.
She can't sing.

I wish people would just acknowledge her as a failure, so maybe someone actually deserving will get a little exposure.

She didn't get signed. Ark's a vanity label.

 

[Raiser]

Slightly better than Friday, but still shit.

She doesn't deserve this much fame and recognition, there are much better obscure musicians out there.

Yes, and oh yes.

Her voice is definitely.. "better" compared to Friday, but it has no depth or feeling whatsoever- things that many songs can't do without.
And the song itself is just.. bland.

 

[CarbonX13]

Her voice is definitely.. "better" compared to Friday, but it has no depth or feeling whatsoever- things that many songs can't do without. And the song itself is just.. bland.

Honestly though, depth or feeling can't really apply anymore to the pop genre of today. All of it is auto-tuned. Take Katy Perry for example. Any "depth" and "feeling" in her songs are produced through intensive audio editing. One quick listen to a live performance and you'll realize she's just almost as incapable of singing as Rebecca Black is in terms of expression. She sounds like she's gasping for air every two words.

The song itself is a generic pop song, without as much intensive beat to it as many of the other pieces within the genre are (e.g. Lady Gaga). It definitely exposes the song as "bland", but I think that was a choice by Rebecca Black after the criticism from the very heavy auto-tune in Friday. She went for a much more "natural" feel with her new single rather than repeating the auto-tuned mess that was her previous single. She still evidently used auto-tune, but you can't really blame her when 99% of the music industry does the exact same thing as well.

I'm surprised I'm actually defending Rebecca Black for something. Ah well.

 

[KingdomBlade]

*snip

I actually like Katy Perry live... she's not as bad as I would expect her to be. Though personally, I think that I don't mind autotune if it's improving the music. It's there for about the same reason that there are special effects in movies, to artificially enhance it. People who complain about autotune endlessly kinda irritate me. How come people are fine with computer generated music but find fault in using autotune?

There are some pop artists that are brilliant live though. I'll go with your example, Lady Gaga. Her acoustic performances are actually quite outstanding even though her album versions are clearly autotuned.

 

[AlanJohn]

If she releases an entire album I'll kill myself.

 

[BlueStar]

Its actually quite the improvement from Friday but I get the feeling she was putting up a huge middle finger to all the people who hated on her

If people didn't hate her song no-one would no who the fuck she was. If she'd have written a bad song rather than an absolutely amazingly terrible one, she wouldn't have got to make this second one.