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The Awl interprets Rebecca Black's "Friday" as a radical text

She moves from a home made vexing by obligations to the bus stop and there, in the public sphere, appears to find freedom from authoritarian programming in the form of a Mercedes convertible filled with high-status peers. They stop and invite her to join them, a moment evoking Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night but with a postmodern twist suggestive of a post-historical amnesia: On this “Friday,” it is no longer French leisure but German engineering that promises delivery from the snares of family and self-image.