| Rebecca Black – Friday Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Rebecca Black's magnum opus 'Friday' is a virtuosic study of the divertissemental aspect of the fifth day of the week (as it's allegorical title suggests) Friday; both it's necessity, and it's implications on human nature. Inspired by the prose of Dostoevsky and the existentialist approach of Camus, Black gives us a running commentary on the way in which human society has developed into subsisting on repetitive chores; the obligatory reveille at '7 am', 'waking up in the morning' and having 'cereal' (clearly a reference to how we, like breakfast cereal, pale to existence in our society when conforming to such mundane activities). Black opts for a technically prolific major keyed melody accompanied with a highly complex underlying 'oom oom cha oom' drum-line, deliberately contrasting with the mundanity of the activites expressed in the opening lyrics; hinting at the idea that maybe there is an escape from this Hobbesian-esque society, maybe there is a way to unlatch the chains of bourgeois oppression. This disguised concept is fully explored towards the end of the first stanza (to refer to these poetic, epigrammatic lines as simply verses would be obscene) and indeed throughout the rest of this masterpiece as Black delves our conforming minds into the radically exhilarating existentialist world; what's this? 'my friends' are here? I don't have to 'catch my bus' to intrinsic tedium? indeed, Black suggests that this is the case. Many critics of Black have suggested different interpretations of what is meant by our savior by our 'friends'; direct realists have claimed these 'friends' to be amiable companions in the literal sense, indicating that 'happiness is only real when shared'. Others have refuted this, resorting to the more symbolic approach, regarding the 'friends' as representative of what makes us human; our strife to be independent, or to reach eudamonia, as the Greeks put it. The remainder of the piece forms an exultant proclamation of the human spirit; we can create change at will, and we shall; every Friday. We will 'kick' in the back seat, or should we feel like it, 'sit' in the front seat; we are masters of our own destiny, and we will no longer listen to you. The stanzas after this consist of writing depth beyond the scope of Milton himself, and to view further analysis of these, please refer to Walter Benjamin's in depth study of this master-work, as I am certainly not qualified to do so. What I will parle is this my friends; Black has taught us a fundamental lesson about our innate capabilities as humans here. We cannot take our capacity to be free and 'party' for granted. We must 'scream', because 'we gonna have fun'. After all, it is 'Friday'. |
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| Hilltop Hoods – Outgoing Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The film's Training Day. There's another song on the album with another clip from Training Day when Denzel says 'I'm a burn this motherfucka down!'. Both this and the 'King Kong' line are from the same scene towards the end of the film. | |
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