Worst. Song. Ever?
It's a good job she didn't run into Craig David as we know what he likes to do on Friday

So apparently the worst song in the world is little Rebecca Black’s song Friday. Well I say Rebecca’s song, but of course like most generic pop-pap she didn't write it herself. No indeed that goes to the duo Clarence Jey and Patrice Wilson and the Ark Music Factory company that they run.
The Ark Music Factory is, well it's a factory. A factory that pumps out little doe eyed, baby faced assassins of musical culture. Essentially what happens is a parent who has either decided they want their little angel to be a star or has been pestered enough by said little angel to be a star, pay Ark a sum of money (starting at $2000) this gets them a song written, video shot and promotion^[1].
As you'd expect from such an assembly line approach to an artistic endeavour the quality of the work is somewhat dubious. Feel free to check out Rebecca Blacks song on YouTube, be warned though some things can not be unseen or heard.


From here it would be easy to go on and have a bash at Rebecca or Ark Music Factory. I won't though, well no more then it deserves anyway. Instead I find myself asking two questions.
Firstly, is Friday really that bad of a song? The answer to this is a resounding yes.
However secondly I find my self asking: Is it really any worse then any other pop music? No, no it isn't.
Are the lyrics to Friday meaningless rubbish? Must certainly; but are Friday's lyrics really that much worse then some other pop songs out there?
Is Friday’s chorus of:
"It's Friday, Friday;
Gotta get down on Friday;
Everybody's lookin' Forward to the weekend, weekend."

Any worse then, say, current uk #1^[2] On the Floor by Jennifer Lopez:
"Dance the night away
Live your life, and stay young on the floor
Dance the night way
Grab somebody drink a little more
Lalalalalalalalalalalalalala
Tonight we gon’ be it on the floor
Lalalalalalalalalalalalalala
Tonight we gon’ be it on the floor"

Not really. By the way I especially like how Jenny from the block has rhymed away with way and floor and more. She's really channelling that rhyming dictionary there. Sadly she lets her self down as she seems to of got bored half way through and just thrown in the polyfiller of the lyricist world "lalalala"

Maybe it's so reviled because of the Auto Tuned singing? Well it's certainly one of the reasons I've heard, and it's certainly pretty bad. Worse then other popular music songs?
Not really. Most pop songs are auto tuned these days, they seem to just bung it on with out even thinking about it now. Other songs that have been auto tuned to the same level have been really popular. For examples see the following from the charts at the moment: J-Lo (again), The Wanted, any rapper and especially LMFAO's song Party Rock Anthem which currently occupies the #2 spot in the charts^[2]. Of course I blame Cher for the whole auto tuned travesty; "do you beeeeeelieeeve in life after love". Damn you Cher.

So then why does Friday deserve the hatred it gets when the failures in it are given a free pass in other pop songs. Well it doesn't really does it. If it had been played on the radio it would probably have been heralded as, to put in in the vernacular "choon!". However as it wasn't it has been globally panned.
So who's really having the biggest laugh here? The people laughing at Rebecca Black's Friday or the industry that has been built around selling music just like this to the masses?



[1]Exact package varies with how much is paid
[2]According to the BBC music website.