This has to be an SNL Digital Short, right? Although it hasn’t happened yet, at some point, Andy Samberg will jump up from behind a bush in the following video, no?
That’s the only explanation behind “Friday,” a track released by random artist Rebecca Black. The single went viral over the weekend, soon after it was posted on Comedy Central’s Tosh.0 blog. Since then?
It’s racked up over five million YouTube hits, despite a lack of impressive vocals, an unknown singer behind autotuned lyrics, a video that makes no sense (why is Black waiting at a bus stop if her friends are picking her up?!?) and words that include how Friday is a great day and how “partying” is “fun, fun, fun.”
It’s a baffling Internet sensation, it’s a product of a Los Angeles-based company called the Ark Music Factory and it’s available here for your listening/bewildering pleasure: