well it's not as stupid, so you get a thumbs up... there you go, +1 thumbs up. Your freaking welcome. but i still won't pay to listen to this.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Rebecca Black is Back - My Moment
Back in March of this year, a 13 year old girl from Orange County CA became an overnight sensation! For weeks, everyone had something to say about Rebecca Black and her slightly silly but curiously catchy song, "Friday" and its quirky but fairly well made music video. We wrote several articles about Rebecca Black and you can find them all here. Now, Rebecca is back with her second song, "My Moment" - just released today and already it has over 650 thousand views! I'll have a few things to say about the song and video, below.But first, The News!
This week's Featured Video on our Top 100 and Top 200 Charts is a great music video parody set to the tune of Christina Perri's Jar Of Hearts, about the new Harry Potter movie! Recently I told you about two Harry Potter fanatics who vlog on YouTube. This Harry Potter parody video is from Kathy, featured in that post. She asked viewers to send in clips and she added them to her own scenes that relate to the new Harry Potter movie that made almost 170 million dollars ($169,189,427) opening weekend in the U.S. alone! Watch the Featured Video of Kathy singing beautifully about Harry Potter right here; click on it!
We have a NEW Featured Video every week on our YouTube Top 100 Chart. If you missed any of our Previously Featured Videos, you can still watch them here.
Check out our Top 100 and Top 200 Charts of the Most Subscribed YouTube Channels every week!
Now, watch Rebecca Black's latest video, My Moment!
Rebecca Black was just 13 when she decided to make a music video like her friend Alana Lee had just made. After getting the okay, and money ($4000) from her parents, Rebecca goes to Ark Music Factory and buys a package consisting of an original song and music video. Ark puts the video on its YouTube channel and the video gets a few thousand hits. Then Tosh.0 mentions it on TV and millions come to enjoy or hate on the video. The dislike to like ratio is about 8 to 1 but the video keeps getting views and comments.
(Read more Rebecca Black history, here.)
People want to know who Rebecca Black is, and her name becomes a the number one Trending Topic on Twitter, even ahead of the Japan natural disaster. Rebecca gets horrible hate comments but wins the friendship of Ryan Seacrest, Lady Gaga and Simon Cowell. She ends up in a starring role as herself in the hugely popular 8 minute mini-movie / music video for Katy Perry's song "Last Friday Night".
The song tells Rebecca's story so far. It has a little of the feel of Taylor Swift's "Mean." Some people are not encouraging at all, but Rebecca will be following her dreams.
The video begins with Rebecca Black sitting in a recording studio (see the picture above). She starts singing some ah-ah-a-ah sounds, recalling the opening moments of "Friday". The lyrics start with, "Weren't you the one who said that I would be nothing? Well I'm about to prove you wrong!" The video continues with shots of Rebecca out and about, with fans and on the roads of L.A. Other scenes show her in makeup prep and at a dance class. The middle of the video contains some nice dance scenes with Rebecca and (according to her recent tweet, seen at the left) several dancers from "So You Think You Can Dance" - the hit dance competition TV show on the Fox Broadcasting Network.The video winds down with shots of Rebecca Black in a limo with her younger brother, her mother and others, on their way to a Premier event. We see Rebecca getting out of the limo as photographers flashes go off. She has pulled up in front of a club of some sort with her name and "My Moment" on the Marquee. Rebecca has just had some words for the haters in her lyrics - "Haters, said I'll see ya later... I'm doing big things, things you never dreamed of. I hope you are happy 'cause I'm 'bout to blow up! This is my moment, my moment! It's my time!"
The final scene shows Rebecca Black dancing in front of the club as the paparazzi take shot after shot. She is wearing a red dress which comes down to just above the knee, a black belt and black shoes. The dress is very similar to the famous white dress that Marilyn Monroe wore in "The Seven Year Itch" which sold at auction for $4.6 million on June 20th of this year. No, Rebecca's dress did not blow up, but her song, video and career just might!
Now - Watch the video!
Uploaded by rebecca on Jul 18, 2011
GET THE SONG ON iTUNES NOW! http://bit.ly/mymomentitunes
World Premiere Music Video for "My Moment" the new song from Rebecca Black.
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License: Standard YouTube License
TOP COMMENTS on Day ONE:
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The comments go by so quickly! It's like playing a video game! "Try to hit thumbs up, thumbs down, or reply. XD
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Let's see any of you do better. Get over yourselves. She's made more out of herself as a thirteen year old then any of you will in your whole lives.
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hmmm i think this song is a little better than friday ...
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302 views and 60 000 dislikes, dont know bout you but youtube needs math class
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888 comments since you started viewing ... dammmm
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ahaha she just shits on all your haters on this song lol i have never seen some many trolls come out of hibernation just to hate on a cool kid lol
Labels: Friday, Harry Potter, KathyKatInAHat, My Moment, rebecca, Rebecca Black
posted by KennyCrane at
7/19/2011 01:55:00 AM
2 Comments
Friday, April 22, 2011
Two Vloggers who love Harry Potter
I like blogging. I enjoy recording my opinion on things related to YouTube at this website. I've been doing this for just shy of 5 years now, and its fun for me to go back and read some of my old posts. It gives me insight into what I liked at the time and I can think about whether I still like what I once raved about, or not. Generally I still enjoy the same videos and video makers!
I started blogging shortly after YouTube launched and this blog presents a history of YouTube. I've written about YouTube musicians, comedians and other genres, including vloggers. A video blog is similar to a written blog in that you can learn about a person's thoughts and feelings. A vlog's visual aspect gives you an immediate impression of the person, as well as body language cues you don't get in a blog, and often captures a certain spontinaety. A blog can provide more depth and detail, and is often a good adjunct to a vlogger's videos.
I've enjoyed several vloggers over the years. Some continue to vlog, although not always at the same frequency, while others are gone or have changed their channel's focus to other things. It can be interesting to follow a vlogger over a period of time. You can see how their personality changes and how they grow as a person. This is especially true of younger vloggers who are still discovering who they are and what they want to do with their lives.
I picked two interesting vloggers to write about in this post - Lucy (OMGitsLucy814) and Kathy (KathyKatInAHat). Both have pleasant personalities and seem to enjoy sharing their thoughts in their vlogs. They are very genuine and sincere; they are comfortable in front of the camera and you could imagine them telling a friend what you see them talking about in their vlogs.
Lucy and Kathy have something else in common; both are big fans of the Harry Potter book series. I have enjoyed learning about Harry Potter from these ladies as I have not read the books myself (I did see one movie and liked it). I would like to read Harry Potter and just discovered that my mom has the first book! It's just a matter of finding the time. I did read all the books in another popular series a few years ago, the Twilight Saga books. My neice was reading them and some family members were concerned about the subject matter, so I decided to see what the fuss was about. I enjoyed the Twilight books and the movies as well, and have even written a few articles on Twilight, most recently "Twilight Saga: Lessons Learned".
After hearing Lucy and Kathy talk about Harry Potter, I think I may have read the wrong book series! I do like Twilight but, in my opinion, its primarily about an unnatural obsession between two people and the adventures their relationship brings to them. I get the feeling from Lucy and Kathy that Harry Potter has more depth and character development, which is something I like and was a bit lacking in Twilight. The ladies talk about how Harry Potter is about love, family, friendship, triumph over evil and solving problems without using magic. When I see my mom this Easter Sunday, I think I'll borrow her Harry Potter book!
Below, we present some vlogs by Lucy and Kathy...
But first, The News!
This week's Featured Video on our Top 100 and Top 200 Charts is a 1960s inspired Garage / Punk / Pop / Indie Rock music video on the GarageRockRadio channel that I think is very cool! It's a cover of the old Vogues song, "Magic Town" upgraded with guitars, gritty vocals and played at a faster tempo, done by musician Lynette Price. The video is random and strange in parts (what IS THAT at 0:48???) and has been described as "a dream within a dream." Watch and enjoy a style of music you might not have heard before! Check out our Top 100 and Top 200 Charts of the Most Subscribed YouTube Channels every week!
Our friend Ali Brustofski is on TV in a Talent Show Contest! If you are in NY, NJ, or Connecticut, you can watch it on the MSG network. But even if you can't watch, you can Vote For Ali from 4-24 TO 4-27. Please check out her video about this, click the pic on the left, and VOTE!!!Now, here are some interesting vlogs by Lucy and Kathy!
I found Lucy on YouTube when she was just starting out. Her first video was about Harry Potter and which characters her classmates liked the best from the series. Her second video was her first vlog, and I wrote about it, here. I have enjoyed Lucy's vlogs for almost 3 years now and have written about a few of her other videos. See a list of Lucy's videos that I wrote about, here.
Lucy, who states that "Youtube. It's not a hobby, It's a way of life."
is now a senior in High School and made a video last Winter titled, "Why I Love Harry Potter". She explains that she has reread the series and is more able to appreciate the depth of the characters. It's not just about a boy wizard, there is so much more there. Let's hear Lucy in her own words...
Kathy, who said she's "pretty much a huge nerd, and I am also very proud of that fact" is in her first year of college. She talked about her Harry Potter Obsession in one of her VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) videos from last week. After relating what Harry Potter has meant to her at various times in her life, Kathy observes that "these people who had magical powers had problems that they could not solve with magic." We all have problems and we have to learn to deal with them. Listen to Kathy in her own words...
I wrote about Lucy's first vlog years ago when I first saw it. I did not discover Kathy's channel until about a month ago. She made her first vlog well over a year ago when she was a senior in High School. I think she did a great job; let's watch!
Kathy has indeed vlogged every day in April so far and I have enjoyed watching her videos. I recommend that you watch them as well, and its always good to start at the start, so here is VEDA #1. Kathy re-introduces herself, mentions she loves Harry Potter, Doctor Who (watch this and this at 3:22!), jump cut editing, and is going to VidCon! Watch this and then some or all of her other videos, I know you'll enjoy them!
Labels: AllisonBrustofski, GarageRockRadio, Harry Potter, KathyKatInAHat, OMGitsLucy814, Twilight
posted by KennyCrane at
4/22/2011 03:05:00 AM
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1) I do admit this is better then Friday and its not terrible
2) however can she please go more then 10 seconds without looking at the camera. Sometimes that's ok, but that is just obnoxious.
ITS NOT THT BAD PEOPLE!