Rebecca Black gets baked on Friday.

“Friday” by Rebecca Black

This song is self-explanatory: get happy because TGIF.  But if put into a different context, this song may just be about performing illegal activities with friends in the back and/or front seat of a car…

Rebecca Black: wholesome teenager....


...or heading in the same direction as this?

Rebecca Black is 13.  She’s in the eighth grade.  I don’t remember eighth grade.  Can you remember when you were 13? 

“7am, waking up in the morning

Gotta be fresh, gotta go down stairs”

When you’re 13, you’re required by law to go to school.  Hence waking up at 7 a.m.  Aren’t you glad you’re not 13 anymore?  

Let’s talk about sex, baby.  Thirteen years old is about the time them hormones kick in and young ladies, like Rebecca Black, begin to care about their appearance.  So they need to look “fresh;” there might be adolescent boys who see them.  We said “tight” back in my day.  Word.

So she’s a Generation Z kid with a lot of pressure to get up, look good, and go down stairs, every day.  The next lyrics make sense:

“Gotta have my bowl”

When listening, there’s a slight pause in the lyrics here, just long enough to let this image pop into your head:

Exhibit A: a bowl.

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Followed by the line:

“Gotta have cereal”

Exhibit B: a bowl of cereal.

Is the pause coincidental?  Is she really that naïve?  I remembering being innocent once.  Probably when I was 13.  But that pause in the song lyrics…and she does live in California…

“Kickin’ in the front seat
Sittin’ in the back seat
Gotta make my mind up
Which seat can I take?”

                                    

Ah, adolescence.  “For girls, early maturation can sometimes lead to increased self-consciousness…”   This is why Rebecca has such a hard time deciding what seat to take.  It’s like, sitting next to Ashton would be super cool, but then Demi might get totally jelly because she’s had dibs on him since last month.  The social politics are pretty intense at 13.  And if you’re baked, making an important decision like that is really hard.

From hear on out, let’s assume Rebecca Black is high because she had her bowl in the morning before heading out and seeing her friends.

“It’s Friday, Friday
Gotta get down on Friday

Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend, weekend”

Repetition was how our teachers and parents got us newly blossoming teenagers to remember anything.  That’s how we learned pre-Algebra.  And being excited for the weekend was still exciting because it meant no school and we could act.  But she’s repeating herself way more than what’s normal for a chorus.   

“7:45, we’re drivin’ on the highway
Cruisin’ so fast, I want time to fly”

If she’s 13, who’s driving her around?  Bad life choices, Rebecca Black.

“Fun, fun, think about fun
You know what it is
I got this, you got this
My friend is by my right
I got this, you got this
Now you know it”

She has to remind herself she’s having fun because she’s about to trip balls.  She must reassure herself that her friend is by her side.  It’s all about your ‘tude, which teens do best.

“Kickin’ in the front seat
Sittin’ in the back seat
Gotta make my mind up
Which seat can I take?”

Deciding where to kick it in the car is, like I said, a tricky situation in navigating the social hierarchy of friends.  Especially when kick it means this. 

Which might explain the urban grammar….

“We-we-we so excited
We so excited”

And the hesitation when trying to remember if Sunday really does come after Saturday…

“Tomorrow is Saturday
And Sunday comes after...wards”

So it’s the only logical explanation for the lyrics.  This song is really about getting high in the backseat because it’s the weekend and what else do thirteen year olds do on the weekend?

I don’t know.  I can’t remember.