Perform This Way by Lady Yankovic [MUSIC VIDEO]

  

Weird Al Yankovic takes on Lady Gaga.

Rebecca Black's Friday, Explicated [VIDEO]

  

Dana Vachon explores the deeper meaning of Rebecca Black's tween hit song, Friday:

Rebecca Black wakes somewhat too perfectly in the early scenes of her viral video, "Friday." Her eyes open exactly as the clock beside her bed flashes seven. She wears full make-up. Rare for a teen, she isn’t tired, longs not for any receding dreams.

Her cultural debt is less to Molly Ringwald in Sixteen Candles than Evie Vicki the robot girl from Small Wonder, we realize, as in a voice controlled by Auto-Tune she enumerates the banalities of an anti-existence: “Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs, gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal… gotta get down to the bus stop.” Read the rest at The Awl.