Arshad- Girl on Fire
They don’t own me
I’m not a piece in their games
Can’t control me
They’re the only ones to be blamed
I’ll never breakdown
I won’t give up this fight
I’ll give ‘em nothing
Nothing Nothing
Just one kiss and I will be hooked to her fire
Her flames are surrounding me now
As we watch as they light up the sky
We must stand up and fight.
Cause this love is not a game to me
We’ll survive
And start an uprising
You can ignite (you can ignite)
Stand and fight (stand and fight)
Don’t cave in
So let’s the games begin
Rebecca Black ‘Friday’ For Orchestra by Walt Ribeiro
“Fun Fun Fun Fun”
Regardless of what people say about this track, I actually love it, and so its the one I wanted to arrange this week.
It’s on par with Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Why? Well, I constantly say that music isn’t about eighth notes and harmonic minor scales. It’s purpose is to create emotion. It doesn’t matter what that emotion is – it could be happy, sad, fear, uncertainty, anger, calmness, or in this case – hilariousness.
To me, it’s a successful piece of music because it got people talking, it got people emotional. Even Simon Cowell would agree. Released on February 11, 2011 by Ark Music Factory, the song sat dormant for a month until The Daily What and then Tosh.O wrote up about it on March 14, 2011, and gave it life upon the internet.
The piece is incredibly happy in it’s emotion, and I wanted to capture that with the violins, so I had them play triumphantly in the beginning and in the ending. The most difficult to arrange was the rap by Pato Patrice Wilson. I had this same problem with my Rage Against The Machine piece because unpitched vocals commonly seen in rap is incredibly difficult to arrange for pitched instruments, but I’m thrilled with how the rap was performed by the xylophone.
I love the honestly of this piece, and really wanted to transcend the feeling of “fun fun fun fun”. For all the people who are hating on Rebecca, I say learn to love them, and besides, lovers whisper
If there is anything, ANYTHING, that can make Rebecca Black’s Friday sound like a masterpiece….it’s this. I kid you not.
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Ladies and gentleman: Jennifer Lawrence, the queen of derp!
I’m sorry, but this is the best post ever.
