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Producer Patrice Wilson is responsible for Friday, the Rebecca Black song and video that has attracted more than 200m views on YouTube. Wilson wrote the song in under half an hour. He shows Jon Ronson how – by penning a song about him
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God loves a trier at least, and you know that a talk show is going to want to hear a new song by them, especially one that painfully poor.
It just so happens that he put a lot of references to himself in it. His lyrics for Friday from those comments are meaningless: R-B, Rebecca Black So chillin’ in the front seat (In the front seat) In the back seat (In the back seat) I’m drivin’, cruisin’ (Yeah, yeah) Fast lanes, switchin’ lanes Wit’ a car up on my side (Woo!) (C’mon) Passin’ by is a school bus in front of me Makes tick tock, tick tock, wanna scream Check my time, it’s Friday, it’s a weekend We gonna have fun, c’mon, c’mon, y’all