No, “Kicking in the front seat / sitting in the back seat” is not a Gwendolyn Brooks couplet about Rosa Parks; it’s a key line in YouTube sensation Rebecca Black’s video ” Friday ,” which is being “hailed” as the worst song ever. Honestly? It’s not that bad. A little doltish and Auto-Tuned, but nothing that another wretched spin of “Boom Boom Pow” couldn’t make you forget. Rebecca Black’s meteoric rise (about 20 million views, so far) makes us reflect upon other questionable phenomena in pop history, the kinds whose stories still haven’t been told on the big screen. Here are five we’d like to revisit.
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In Honor of Rebecca Black’s ‘Friday,’ 5 Dubious Sensations Who Deserve Biopics
