Rebecca Black Releases A 100 Gecs-like 'Friday' Remix On The Song's 10th Anniversary

Today in Feel Old Yet?: Rebecca Black's 'Friday' turns ten years old today, and Black, a decade removed from when she became the laughing stock of the internet for singing one of the dumbest songs ever penned at age 13, has released a remix to celebrate.

The remix, featuring 3OH!3, Big Freedia and Dorian Electra, is legitimately bizarre, sounding much more like a 100 Gecs song than an ARK Music Factory production. The video is itself a psychedelic trip to 2011, complete with Trollface, Derpina, Me Gusta and LOL Guy cameos. While the whole thing is weird, for those who have been following Black in recent years, the remix's weirdness isn't all that surprising.

On her Instagram, Black seems to have made peace with her meme and will often playfully reference it while hyping her new original single, "Girlfriend," and interacting with fans. It seems only natural that rather than trying to rework "Friday" into something good, she'd instead lean into the irony that made it a legendary meme in the first place.

Black has spent recent years building a "Friday"-adjacent career in the public eye: in 2018, she appeared as a contestant on NBC's The Four, where she performed admirably. She'd also been developing a small but respectable YouTube following before taking a break for the past several months, ostensibly to work on new music.

After the New York Times released their documentary on Britney Spears and the mass of online and media bullying she faced in the mid-2000s, Black's story of overcoming the "Friday" backlash and emerging as a legitimate young pop star has garnered support on Twitter.

happy tenth birthday to friday, there is nothing better than how much rebecca black has blossomed and owned her memetic fame

— amandab✨ (@continuants) February 10, 2021

Good morning to Rebecca Black, Big Freedia, Dorian Electra, Dylan Brady and 3OH!3 only

— matt horwood (@matthewhorwood) February 10, 2021

I'm glad people are coming back around to support women who were bullied years ago…Britney Spears and Rebecca Black come to mind. They deserved so much better than how society treated them, it was disgusting.

— sanj ▽ (@wasabmix) February 10, 2021

While Black's remix is admirable, it still doesn't top the all-time best "Friday" remix, in this writer's opinion: