We may be reaching minute 14 of her 15 minutes (or not, considering the lasting effect YouTube has on careers these days), but online viral phenomenon Rebecca Black is still part of the national conversation. Both hated and beloved throughout the blogosphere, Rebecca's song "Friday" became a mammoth hit, falling just short of 70 million hits on YouTube as we write this.
Like many other pop superstars, Rebecca is now undergoing the treatment in which someone has slowed down "Friday" by 500 percent, meaning it barely crawls along, sound like a cacophonous, avant garde orchestral performance piece (but, to be honest, so does everything when it's slowed down 500 percent). When you hear a song like "Friday" -- which is, technically, an ode to "fun fun fun fun fun" -- reproduced at a snail's pace, it suddenly makes it sound like a classical wall of sound, ornamented with echoes and luscious, ethereal harmonies reminiscent of more hipster fare like Grizzly Bear and Sigur Ros.
Just don't tell Grizzly Bear and Sigur Ros.
+ Listen to Rebecca Black's "Friday" slowed down.