Friday (Remix)

### Songwriter(s)

Nathaniel Motte, Sean Foreman, Big Freedia, Dorian Electra, Clarence Jey, Patrice Wilson

## Music Video

February 8, 2021, Rebecca Black teased a 10-year anniversary remix of "Friday" featuring "some iconic people" on Twitter. The remix was released on February 10, 2021 and features vocals from crunkcore duo 3OH!3, New Orleans's "queen of bounce" Big Freedia, and alt-popmusician Dorian Electra, alongside production from Dylan Brady of 100 Gecs. Of her choice of collaborators for the remix Black explained "I’d had the idea to do this remix of Friday for years leading up to now, but honestly it was also mildly insane for me to think anyone else would want to be a part of it".

### Composition

Opposed to the original's bubblegum style, this new "maximalist makeover", "morphs the original's simple pop aesthetic into a hyperpop overload."Black's chiptune vocals are "glitched-out" and distorted to the point of being unrecognizable, accompanied by "a pounding bass kick and pixellated synth line" from Brady. Electra's verse tells the story of the song from the perspective of another person in the car, while 3OH!3 turns the track into "an ethereal, synth-filled chorale" and Freedia "rips the song back into a thrumming dance rhythm".

### Critical reception

Ben Jolley rated the remix four stars out of five in his review for *NME*, calling it a "serotonin-boosting rollercoaster ride" with "endless replay value". Writing for *Billboard*, Stephen Daw praised Brady's production for "[giving] it a fresh, modern refurbishing". Similarly, Jon Blistein of *Rolling Stone* considered that it had "[warped] the sanitized mall pop into something delightfully delirious".

## Lyrics

**[Intro: Big Freedia]**

It's Rebecca Black

Dorian Electra

3OH!3

And Big Freedia

It's the fucking weekend, people

It's Friday!

**[Verse 1: Rebecca Black]**

7 AM, waking up in the morning

Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs

Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal

Seein' everything, the time is goin'

Tickin' on and on, everybody's rushin'

Gotta get down to the bus stop

Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends

**[Pre-Chorus: Rebecca Black]**

Kickin' in the front seat

Sittin' in the back seat

Gotta make my mind up

Which seat can I take?

**[Chorus: Rebecca Black]**

It's Friday, Friday

Gotta get down on Friday

Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend, weekend

Friday, Friday

Gettin' down on Friday

Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend

**[Post-Chorus: Rebecca Black]**

Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)

Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)

Fun, fun, fun, fun

Lookin' forward to the weekend

**[Verse 2: Dorian Electra & *Rebecca Black*]**

It's 7:45, we're drivin' on the highway

I got this, you got this

My friend is by my right, *ayy*

(Fun, fun, fun, fun) Think about

(Fun, fun, fun, fun) Think about

(Fun, fun, fun, fun) Think about

*Now you know it*

**[Pre-Chorus: Rebecca Black]**

Kickin' in the front seat

Sittin' in the back seat

Gotta make my mind up

Which seat can I take?

**[Chorus: Rebecca Black]**

It's Friday, Friday

Gotta get down on Friday

Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend, weekend

Friday, Friday

Gettin' down on Friday

Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend

**[Post-Chorus: Rebecca Black]**

Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)

Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)

Fun, fun, fun, fun

Lookin' forward to the weekend

**[Verse 3: Sean Foreman]**

It's ten years later, now it's 3OH!3 on Friday

I'm sick of living through this Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdays

But then Thursday comes along and we are saying

"Friday, here comes fucking Friday"

**[Verse 4: Big Freedia]**

F-F-F-F, F-R-I, D-A-Y (Friday)

'Nother weekend so fun, let your freak flag fly (Flag fly)

Make it clap like you're grateful

Make it clap like you're blessed

Make it clap-clap, dance in your backseat, ain't nobody strapped

And you know why because it's

**[Chorus: Rebecca Black & *Big Freedia*]**

It's Friday, Friday

Gotta get down on Friday (*Hey, hey, hey*)

Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend, weekend

Friday, Friday

Gettin' down on Friday

Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend (*We gonna*)

**[Post-Chorus: Rebecca Black]**

Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)

Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)

Fun, fun, fun, fun

Lookin' forward to the weekend

**[Chorus: Rebecca Black & *Sean Foreman*]**

It's Friday, Friday (*Here comes fucking Friday*)

Gotta get down on Friday (*Here comes fucking Friday*)

Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend, weekend

Friday, Friday (*Here comes fucking Friday, Friday, Friday*)

Gettin' down on Friday (*Here comes fucking Friday*)

Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend

**[Post-Chorus: Rebecca Black]**

Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)

Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)

Fun, fun, fun, fun

Lookin' forward to the weekend