Sunday, April 10, 2011

Friday or Saturday?

The song "Friday" by Jessica Black has, no doubt, become a very popular song within the last couple weeks. However, much of it's fame has come from the remixes making fun of Jessica Black's music video and vocals. In one such video called "Saturday" that is posted on youtube, they take the same tune of the song but change the words, which makes it very entertaining to it's audience. The video "Friday" is pretty lame and takes you through the daily life of a middle schooler talking about waiting for the bus stop and eating cereal. It uses a very comic approach that grabs the viewers attention when it says "even though I'm thirteen" and "in case you didn't know the days of the weekend". In the original Friday video they never put any influence on the age of the girl singing or her friends in the video but you can automatically assume that it is a young person's song by her video and what she sings about. In the remix called "Saturday" they really emphasize on how young these kids are in the video and the activities that are going on which makes it really funny. Also they made sure to use a girl with brown hair and have her do generally the same thing as in the originally video only slightly twisted enough for you to get that it was a remix from the "Friday" video. Also in the remix she is completely off key which is similar to Jessica Blacks version because she was off key as well. In the remix she also emphasizes on how many times she says fun, which is really funny. The significance of these parodies is to entertain a large audience. When stupid videos are made like this it is any easy way to grab a lot of attention and become famous really quick and this is an easy video to do this with.