Gotta Get Down Last Friday Night

The best 80s teen movie was made in 2011. By Katy Perry.

Katy Perry. I remember when I first heard you. You told me that I was so gay. I didn't ever want to ever here you again.Then, you told me that you had a lesbian experience once. And that song was everywhere. At that point I couldn't ignore you and your, um, talents.
She has large breasts.
So I figured if you were going to be invading the pop world, I would at least pay attention. And so I did; she was Hot and Cold, Woke Up in Vegas, she even roped in Snoop Dogg into making the world's most unnecessary cameo of all time in California Gurls. So I put up with her because she kept looking like this

BUT MAINLY because she was marrying this:

English comedian/ media gadfly/ my best impression/ notorious Lothario/ quiz show champion/ the spawn of Rod Stewart and a Raven/ once stuck a barbie doll in his butt onstage to prove a point/ the inspiration-and-or-1st choice to play the title character in Dean Tartaglia and Steve Warstler's rock opera "The Skeezer":
Russell Brand
So I gave her another chance. And she made. me. FeelLikeI'mLivin'A Teenage Dream. Which is either the Worst Neil Sedaka song ever or the best Cake song ever...
She let me know that I never had to feel like a plastic bag ever again. Then she let Kanye promise he was going to probe me. Which, in all seriousness, is not a bad deal.

SO NOW she has released the video for her new song, "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)". The video is a sort of mini-John-Hughes movie starring the dream cast for a teen movie shot today.

• Katy Perry stars as Kathy Beth Terry, our nerdy Molly Ringwald analogue/female lead.

• Kevin "The one in the Wheelchair" McHale as the nerdy love interest

• Rebecca "I invented the concept of Getting Down on Friday" Black as the popular girl who is an expert at impromptu makeovers

• Darren "Actually the better actor to have played Harry Potter" Criss as the fun party lover guy

• Kenny "What Michael Bolton did to singing I did to Saxophones" G as the out of control Uncle

• This band as the cool band:

• This 80s person:

...and this 80s person:

...as the parents.

Seriously, everything about this video is perfect teen movie: opening shot of the paperboy, over-indulgent high school party, nerd makeover, crazy uncle. But additionally, and most importantly, it shows actually footage of Rebecca Black getting down on Fri-ee-day. SPOILERS: she plays Dance Central

And that's what's so genius about the video. I hear Rebecca Black's "Friday" every Friday. I can't let anyone say Friday without exclaiming "IT'S FRI-EE-DAY!" with a faux autotuned voice. And yet most of the feedback the interwebs has given 14 year old Rebecca is death threats. As admittedly terrible as that song is, we as a society must have loved it somehow, seeing as we watched it Four-Hundred-Million-Gatrillion-Bajillion times. And honestly, I'm still not sure which seat to take.
Katy Perry's video is a vehicle to 1) let Rebecca Black demonstrate getting down on a Friday and 2) to prove that the we and the internet at large not only don't hate Rebecca Black, but we associate and expect her in all Friday related things. This redeems us from the death threats we made at her and yet still let Will.I.Am live.
Katy Perry realized that Rebecca Black is Friday. She is the personification of a day. Not since the Sabbath have we declared an intrinsic link between a person and a day of the week.
And honestly, since Rebecca Black has more screen time in this video than Freya did in the movie Thor, I say we rename Friday, REBECCADAY. 
I hope you had an awesome Rebeccaday! I may have just compared Rebecca Black to Jesus...

                                               Strangely I see a resemblance.

AND BEFORE I FORGET here's the video I've been writing about