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  • Bob Dylan didn't write this song, Fanny Goldberg did back in the 30's. Dylan's version is better than the original, though.

  • Oh God. I hate that I thought people actually thought this was a Bob Dylan song. Good work trolls. This day goes to you.

  • @BlakkGallagher Really? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LOOK IT UP. BOB DYLAN DIDN'T WRITE OR PERFORM THIS CRAP. SOMEONE COVERED IT IN HIS STYLE. FRIDAY WAS WRITTEN LAST YEAR BY Clarence Jey and Patrice Wilson for Rebecca Black! What's the worst is that you would blindly pursue a meaning to meaningless crap. This shows more than a small lack of depth and egoism among some Dylan fans. Get used to the idea that you're deep and you forget that you aren't.

  • Oh God why are so many people trying to defend this as if it was a brilliant work. That just shows what blind tools you are. This isn't a real Bob Dylan song. This wasn't some work of genius. He didn't write "Friday", and sure as hell didn't perform it. Friday was written in 2011 by Clarence Jey and Patrice Wilson for Rebecca Black. It means nothing about communism. The fact that if it's by Bob Dylan you immediately think it's a deep work of genius is more than a little disconcerting.

  • @Lavatramp @AndyP2623 No. This was a fake. This isn't really Bob Dylan. Funny how you can make such a passionate defense for nothing. Rebbeca Black's Friday (the song you're hearing) was written by Clarence Jey and Patrice Wilson.

  • im tired by watching them destroy every little piece of real music that is left... shame on these bastards that took this song for rebbeca black!!!

  • @fonikhkapota lol you almost sound serious!

  • just vondering why it stands Rebecca Black - Friday, as performed by Bob Dylan.. Bob dylan was first.. just wanna say that:P..

  • All of sudden, lyrics soulds philosophical

  • This is just b-e-a-utiful!

    (thank you Jim Carrey)

  • @lavatramp I dont agree with one of your points here, Instead of support for Marxism, I think Dylan begs for political overhaul and adjustment of foreign policy towards more isolationism and less hawkish intervention. His brilliant emphasis of "everybody's looking forward to the weekend" lets us realize that we should worry about our own problems and constantly better ourselves in order to enhance the quality of each following day. it's a genius mix of micro-macrocosm in the lyrics.

  • 1. Take a hated song from the 21st century.

    2. Make a cover of it in the style of a music legend from the 60s.

    3. Have a top comment state that said music legend was the real author all along.

    4. Repeat 3 but state instead the reasons and meanings behind the song by said music legend.

    5. ???

    6. I don't know why you read through all this.

    PS.

    Bob Dylan IS the author behind this song.

  • Yea it's fake but who cares. 3.8 mil hits !!! Chill out

  • Bob Dylan is pissed.

  • God No...

    

  • Fake

  • This is clearly NOT Bob Dylan! If anything, it sounds like Lou Reed. You must be clearly retarded to think it is Bob Dylan!

  • Btw... you know it´s a fake, right?

  • Actually don't care if it's Mike Bauer, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed or Steve Henley the bottom line is, it's a really good listen. 'Deep', maybe but don't think so, that's part of the fun. Well done to who ever produced it

  • this song makes sense now

  • heymikebauer, this is truly awesome

  • totally made the song better.

  • according to A.J. Weberman, Phil Ochs was due to go in and record a version of this in much the same way that Rebecca Black does just before he passed way. too bad as he pro'bly would have had a monster top 40 hit w/ it. In fact there's a rumoured bootlegged  session of him performing it w/ The Holy Modal Rounders which is where Black may have heard it.

  • he's just out of mike range but in that famous scene in "Don't Look Back" of Lennon and Dylan in the back seat of the limo, you can catch Lennon mouthing the words to the 'kickin' it verse and the 2 of them cracking up over it.....Al Aronowitz told me 1 late night at Deanie's that the somber mood here was a result of Dylan just coming off the road and several days of being up on speed and just trying to focus in the studio, hence the 2nd verse where he's seemingly searching for the words.

  • I would just like to remind everyone that LAKEKEPLER still can't count backwards from four.

    Thank you.

  • I love how people are saying 'it's not bob' no shit Sherlock!

  • Yeah, this aint bob

  • This is certainly not Bob Dylan. I am old and I have been listening to him most of my life. It's a pretty good imitation but that's all. Also, the lyric's couldn't be more un-Bob!

  • @arnarne yeah its kinda obvious that this isnt him but thats the whole point of song parodies

  • @bigmackdaddy101 I suppose you are right, it´s just that so many people really seem to believe that this actually IS Bob!  Or...maybe they are just goofing around...?

  • @arnarne i would hope they are just goofing...cause he is one man that everyone should be able to recognize

  • Suddenly, it becomes a song about Civil Rights and the Red Scare.

  • everything sounds intelligent and deep, when Bob Dylan is singing it

  • Genius.

    

  • I don’t know who the fuck Rebecca Black is, still less Bob Dylan. I cut him loose these long years past, preferring instead the many alternative musicians/composers, including, for a very good example, the less than perfect but hugely talented Franky Zappa. As a musician, satirist and iconoclast, he had many redeeming features, not the least of which was his view that music – rock, jazz, or otherwise – was a craft. A diametrically opposite view to the one manifested by Dylan –more’s the pity.

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  • The dead giveaway, the acid test (which it fails), that this aint Bob the Knob, is the guy's guitar is reasonably in tune. Never a feature of BtK's playing.

  • Master Troll :'D

  • This is actually really impressive, I take my hat off to you sir, also, gimme your voice.

  • Seems legit

  • You sir, are a genius for doing this. Awesome!!!

  • This is the first demo Dylan recorded when he made his much criticized move from folk to electric rock. It gave him the courage to reinvent himself for the very first time.

    And now you know the rest of the story.

  • are yall fucking around with those top rated comments? u no this isnt Dylan right .. God i hope so lmao...

  • Bob Dylan lol

  • Obviously not Dylan bob. Wtf.

  • @coooolzz Im mystified... what is the mechanism that makes all of you kiddie wankers looking for gay porn on the interwebs end up here saying this timeless classic isnt Bob Dylan's?

  • I think its clear when Dylan asks which seat should he take? He is referring to the US diplomatic position in the early 60s when the song came out. 'Kickin' in the front seat' refers to fighting communism while "Sittin" refers to standing by peacefully and letting it run its course. Pure genius. It Could also be referring to Rose Parks situation on the bus where she did not give up her seat. This song really summed up the times and is one of Dylan's most thought provoking songs.

  • @AndyP2623 Every Bob fan knows the reference is Rosa Parks, please dont come up with some Michael Moore speculation about the lyrics, dude!

  • This sounds more like Lou Reed.

  • @DSchrute010 Couldnt agree more

  • Favorite Dylan song ever.

  • I actually really like this. The "looking forward to the weekend" gets me every time hahaha.

  • PARTYING PARTYING YEAH! (made me lose it!)

  • LOL! Whoever created this version of the song... Genius!

  • Holy fuck this is brilliant

  • Reminds me of when I was still only in Saigon...shit. Every time, I thought I was going to wake up back in the jungle..

    I'd been there a week, waiting for a Mission. Getting softer. Every minute I stayed in that hotel room I got weaker. Every minute Charlie squatted in the bush, he got stronger. Each time I looked around, the walls moved in a little tighter...

    Everyone gets everything he wants.

    I wanted a Mission - and, for my sins, they gave me one.

    Brought it up to me like Room Service...

  • @dean0waterz If you wanna do your sorry-ass comedy here, kid, you gotta try harder. Cut-and-paste from the Apocalypse Now screenplay isnt good enough. If you get your finger out of your ass, perhaps youll do better...

  • This is absolutely hilarious. Your Bob Dylan impression is quite impressive, and the style sounds JUST like him. xD

  • I am still struggling with how I feel about this. Part of me is sad, another part is happy, and still another part of me is angry with the government. I guess that is Bob Dylan for ya.

  • so goood

  • It sounds much more like Lou Reed ;-)

  • Vengo de 3D juegos =D,, vi el video y vine a ver los comentarios XD

  • So who originally wrote the song? Rebecca or Dylan?

  • @imover18sostfu You're being trolled. Go along with it.

  • @imover18sostfu Rebecca Black. This isn't Dylan at all. Google a bit, you'll see.

  • I love how the Top comments are full of trolling

  • I see what you didi there

  • This is such a powerful song. I remember when i did a roadtrip to school that lasted 20 minutes on a friday. The angst that i felt when i was faced with the confusion that i had when there were too many seats is represented in this song. The revelation i had when Bob Dylan showed me how saturday was after friday, and how sunday came afterwards. Lost times forever engraved in my memories. Oh how we looked forward to the weekend. Bob Dylan always had a way to capture emotions into song.

  • Well, I don't know who this is, but they're actually really talented and this is the only version of the song I can get through. You should make a music video like the Subterranean Homesick Blues one with the cards! (By the way, does anyone else think its sad that this is the top search result for Bob Dylan?)

  • @beatlesfanno9 No, I think it's hilarious!

  • It's a known fact that Dylan wrote every single hit song in the past 40 years.

  • This song was written as a support for the marxism movement of the 1960s. Dylans emphasis of "Friday Fun" is a critique of the modern lifestyles which still plague us to this day. We sell our souls through the week before reaching Friday when we can ultimately "get down". Our notion of freedom and choice of what we do with our time is false. Ultimately it is only the little decisions such as "which seat do i take" which keep us under this illusion.

  • @lavatramp even though it wasnt even by bob dylan, this is a hoax

  • you're all stupid bob dylan never made that

  • @Dudujr09 Trolololololololololol

  • @Dudujr09 ohmygosh they are allll suuchhhh stupidheads

  • @Dudujr09 absolutely false. You need to learn your music history.

  • This isn't funny.. :S

  • On this day, 1 year ago some chick named Rebecca released a cover on this song and claimed it to be hers.

  • Shitception

  • wow, even "dylan's" ironic sarcastic delivery cannot bring meaning to this meaningless song. it just highlights how stupid the lyrics are. "dylan" should do MORE covers of dumb mainstream pop songs ;)

  • I dont care what you all say, there is no way bob dylan wrote this, he is a lyrical and poetical God, the lyrics to this are a pile of douche

  • @GaragebornGrey "I wrote this song" -Bob Dylan April 2011, That enough proof?

  • @GaragebornGrey You're getting trolled idiot, LOL!

  • @spankthemonkee112 it doesn't matter if bob dylan made a song called Friday this video is not it that's not even his voice. I'm a stalker when it comes to dylan hence my youtube name

  • @dylanlover83 If you were a true Dylan fan you'd have heard of this song! It's one of my favourites! Stop pretending that Rebecca Black could have written such an amazing piece of art!

  • You guy's are so stupid to believe this is bob dylan that's not even his voice and he would never write crap like this you people don't know the first thing about dylan, morons, your all morons but props to whoever made this vid you really pulled one over on a lot of dumb people

  • @dylanlover83 WHAT!!!! THIS IS TOTALLY BOB DYLAN! The records right there, that's all I need to prove it.

  • @dylanlover83 Satire and the ability to read the other comments eludes you.

  • @dylanlover83 Your comment lambasting people for being dumb is so deliciously ironic I choked on my toast.

  • @dylanlover83 a true fan would recognise that this level lyrical mastery can only be achieved by Bob Dylan. I guess you just weren't there, man.

  • Well,.. fuck.. after rebeka i can not listen to this song as before. Dylan,i would dick knob her.

  • I don't know why I find this so hilarious, but I do.

  • Really people? You're really questioning if this is actually him.. Wow... Smh

  • Dylan is a poet of the highest order. Shame he hasn't released this officially yet. Think this is from upstate NY, 1966-ish

  • "Friday" came to me when I was in the peace corps. I was posted to South West Sudan. Many of the locals had never even seen white folks before, and ravaged by centuries of war and oppression they weren't open to strangers. I remember this one evening, I got lucky and tuned into Italian radio. Bob's soul and spirit touched every one nearby. The tribe and I linked arms and swayed together to the song. My job was a whole lot easier after that, God bless you Bob.

  • My Dad was a big Dylan fan. After he came back from 'nam, I can remember him just sitting by our record player and listening to this song with a haunted look in his eyes. After a few weeks of this he woke up. He was our dad again. I will never forget this song and what it did for him. When he died, I went through all of his old stuff and found this record. I have it hanging on my wall to always remind me of what it did for my father. Thank you Bob Dylan, because of you I got my dad back.

  • cant believe rebecca black did a cover of this

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  • @tomhughes65 Bullshit

  • if you're in a party play it, i'm sure just a few people will get the joke, and the rest will be shouting.. dylan rocks!

  • This ain't bob dylan ! Who feeds you this people this shit !! You MORONS !!

  • @steviebkhall I pity the fool who thinks this ain´t Bob.

    FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE!

  • @steviebkhall This obviously Bob Dylan, just look at the record.

  • THanks for posting- this is a fitting tribute to Bob Dylan and reminds me of all the good music he gave us in his life. Kinda crying right now. I'm just a 13 year old kid and all my friends like Bieber and Rebecca Black. So thanks for posting is wat I say

  • he ruined that classic tune.

    

  • Some people here really have no sense of humor.

  • @farawaysoclose61 your right its not, i heard he didnt even know pornhub had women on their site

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  • One of the gems that Newport '65 was missing!

  • Kickin’ in the front seat

    Sittin’ in the back seat

    Gotta make my mind up

    Which seat can I take?

    So deep. So much wisdom in these delectable lyrics. Bob Dylan is a true master of music and mind.

  • If you ignore the fact that Bob Dylan wrote this song 40 years before Rebecca Black covered it, then I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

  • That awkward moment when you do a little research and find out that Bob Dylan didn't write OR perform Friday, but people are giving this parody waaaay too much credibility regardless because it has a supposed "big name" attached to it while verbally abusing the Rebecca Black version at the same time. So awks.

  • @Harl3yH3arts You must be retarded...

  • @dip1hell This is a parody produced by a dude named Mike Bauer. The comments you read about people who "were there" when the Freewheelin' himself wrote it? All fellow pranksters perpetuating the silly myth to fool starry-eyed youngsters. Bob Dylan is one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. He aided the civil rights and anti-war movement in the 60's, not to mention the most influential music artist of our time. He did not produce...this. And no, I am not retarded. :)

  • @Harl3yH3arts Exactly, you're destroying the fun. Everybody that says that this music influenced them knows that it's a parody, it's made to see who really thinks Bob Dylan wrote it, it's a joke you know?

  • @Harl3yH3arts After all it turns out you ARE retarded, dude

  • @farawaysoclose61 Well alright, just not my sense of humor I guess. Does not mean I'm retarded, thanks. Back to the kitchen.

  • You idiots.

    Friday was a song originally written in 1961 by bob Dylan.

  • so is this dylan doing a cover or what im kinda confudsed

  • @jerry44325 Dylan wrote this song in1961, but it was too deep and controversial to release at the time. He played it at select concerts, and grown men were reduced to tears. He didn't feel comfortable releasing it until last year.

  • lol yeah do people actually think this is bob dylan

  • that awkward moment when bob dylan sings a song better than you.

  • I genuinely believe this song is about liberation from oppression. Kids the world over are being forced en-mass to attend government approved education camps where their freedom of choice is completely removed and they must learn and do what they are told.

  • good cover

  • lolol. what the fuck. this isn't bob dylan. what the fuck is this? i'm really confused if i like it or not.

  • Rebecca Black has undoubtedly ruined this song for me...

  • \LOVE MHY FOLKS

  • i found this record in my papas old things when i was cleaning up the attic. He died in an accident in vietnam, i miss him so much.

  • @TheGhettoMuffin this isnt a real boy dylan song, you fuckwit.

  • @MrQuickAccount Johnny Cash helped him with the lyrics, but didnt perform it himself cause his voice was too deep for such a happy song

  • Lol I love this but it's sooooo slow lol

  • For those arguing if it's Bob Dylan or not, stop. Just be thankful it's not Rebecca Black. Again.

  • Before leaving for Vietnam, I purchased in a Brooklyn record store this very track, that I intended to use as a gift to leave for my children if I didn't return. In Vietnam I carried it in one of the large trouser pockets of my jungle fatigues. The sturdy record withstood twelve months of war and jungle. Today, it's tucked away in a forgotten bedroom drawer. A large part of my life is based around this exact song. I sometimes sit down in my chair and play this track remembering those who fell.

  • @TheHljeb Thank you for sharing such a wonderful story.

  • @TheHljeb Great story Thanks.

  • @TheHljeb I'm 22, and this happened to me too.

  • @TheHljeb nice troll lol

  • It is a known fact that Bob Dylan actually wrote this song, as well as every song that has ever existed or ever will exist. The only exception would be Springsteen, but he doesn't really count, since he was created in a lab from Dylan's skin cells anyway.

  • This sounds a lot more like Lou Reed than Dylan.

  • Even bad song can be awesome !

  • 1,574 are Rebecca Black fans.

  • @poppylevell I don't think she has that many fans.

  • "Mmmmmm...Partying." - That line just says it all; the ironic melancholy of the statement, the beauty of the phrasing in the face of such sorrow and fear. Dylan didn't make music, he made art.

  • @123412341234het lol this is not bob dylan.

  • @WeakestSoldier Er, yes it is mate.

  • "gotta have my bowl.... gotta have.. cereal" is still the best thing Ive ever heard. haha

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  • How, how did they even know...

    THOSE BASTARDS.

    HOW DARE THEY MOCK BOB DYLAN.

  • Great idea - well done - very funny!!

  • This comment section is a proof that 90% of population are idiots with no sense of humor. But there's a still few good people though

  • jajajajaja dylan...yeah sure....jajajajaa

  • this is a hoax

  • @cj150000118 Orly? U srs??

  • I actually like this lol

  • i like it better than the original though

  • summer of '68. Me and my girlfriend at the time were in Chicago protesting the DNC, and the atmosphere was so chaotic.The yelling, the sex, the smoking,the sex, the yelling . If I recall half the women I yelled at were not her. But as I recall, though the atmosphere was near to the brink of destruction ol' Bobby wrote a simple Ballard on how life was before the man tried taking it away. Me and girlfriend never talked again, it wasn't till 1982 did I find out she was the world's1st aids victim

  • Just in!!!! Lakekepler is dead!!!!!!!!!!

  • @thecheese780

    Thank God!

  • @thecheese780 Lakekepler was never actually alive... I mean, living in his moms basement in Podunktown North Carolina jerkig off all day to gay porn and eating only the minipizzas that she microwaved for him isnt life, is it?

  • This is easily one of Dylan's unsung classics. The melancholy, the dry tone of voice...

    I weep that modern music cannot come close to matching such a magnitude of excellence.

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  • I'll never forget that Friday November 22, 1963 when Kennedy was shot. Watching Kronkite cover it I remember how the whole country felt like they had lost a relative. Then all of a sudden the song started playing with the lyrics going down the TV screen. I dont think one song has ever cheered up a nation more than this. Sorry Katie, this friday > last friday night.

  • *Sigh* I guess to people since it's not Rebecca Black it's not terrible. Dude, she's 13-14 calm your tits, she's just starting out. XOXO