Thank Goodness It’s Ravenclaw
I actually don’t have any ill will towards “Friday” singer Rebecca Black. She didn’t write the song. She didn’t autotune the shit out of it. She only got the chance to do the video as some kind of birthday present. So really, it’s not her fault it became an insane internet sensation. That said, this young Harry Potter fan has made her own parody of “Friday” about Ravenclaw, the nerdiest of all the Harry Potter houses, and she just owns the shit out of Black. Seriosuly, she’s got an excellent voice that doesn’t need a speck of autotune, and she’s written a song that’s infinitely more clever than the original (although that admittedly isn’t saying much). And she made it all herself, apparently in about 11 hours. If anyone knows who this girl is, high-five her for me, please. (Via The Mary Sue)
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.