On February 10, 2021-to commemorate the song's tenth anniversary-Black released an official hyperpop remix produced by Dylan Brady of 100 Gecs featuring 3OH!3, Big Freedia and Dorian Electra to more positive reviews.įriday co-writer Patrice Wilson, a co-founder of ARK Music Factory, explained that he "wrote the lyrics on a Thursday night going into a Friday. Forbes stated that the notoriety of the song is another sign of the power of social media specifically Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr, in this instance in the ability to create "overnight sensations". Since the growth in popularity of the song and video, there have been numerous parody videos and remixes. The song was re-released on September 16, 2011, when the music video was re-uploaded to YouTube. By then, it had already amassed more than 167 million views. The original music video was removed from YouTube on June 16, 2011, due to legal disputes between ARK Music and Black. The song's reception was highly negative, and it was parodied by numerous artists and comedians. Nelson called it "the worst video ever made" on Twitter and the song was featured on the Tosh.0 blog.
Its music video caught a sudden surge of hits after Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax comedian Michael J. The song features a rap verse from Wilson, which was uncredited on the single. The song was originally released as a music video single on Februit was officially premiered as a single on iTunes on March 14, 2011. There are patches with multiple articulations and lot of single articulations, some of which you see in Pic 1." Friday" is a song performed by American singer Rebecca Black, written and produced by Los Angeles record producers Clarence Jey and Patrice Wilson. It works inside Orchestral Tools Capsule for Kontakt/Kontakt Player, which has a very advanced articulation management scheme that perhaps merits an article of its own.
There are 18 sections/instruments with 160 GB of 24 bit/48k samples, are arranged into “Districts” in keeping with the 1927 epic science fiction film that it is named after.ĭistrict 1- Orchestra- strings, woodwinds, and brass.ĭistrict 4 – Band- electric guitars, electric bass, and drumset. It includes high and low strings high and low choirs bassoons and contrabassoons trumpets, trombones, cimbassi, tubas and a smaller and a larger section of french horns percussion and piano a guitar ensemble with left and right separate instruments, electric bass, and a drum kit. It was recorded in Berlin’s Teldex studio, a wonderful sounding venue. Metropolis Ark 1 a Kontakt based library that is specifically designed to give you HUGE sounds for epic style music. I generally prefer libraries that are pretty dry without a dominant venue sound because it is easier to mix and match them.Īnd yet, I tell you this is a terrific sounding library, as you will hear in the demos on the Orchestral Tools website.As a trained composer in the classical tradition, I don’t like or often use libraries with pre-assembled combinations of instruments.I don’t much like, nor do I get hired to write, the style of trailer/library music generally referred to as “epic.”.You are about to read a positive review from me about a product that in theory I should not like. I am somewhat notorious for writing many times in forum discussions that: