First off, why in the world would you attempt to so “deeply” delve into the “intention” and the “hidden meanings” of this video when you know nothing about the person who wrote/sang it?? All the hidden meanings you point out is something you see or want to see because apparently you personally have a problem with the “state run” schools.

Second, school may seem like a prison and I’m sure it does to most students but the “rules” are the same whether it is a public or private school! Even in private schools, you still have to show up at a set time, stay in class until the bell rings, study in order to get passing grades and follow the set rules. As a matter of fact, some private schools have stricter rules than the public ones! School can be tedious and I’ll venture to say any student, private or public looks forward to the weekend after a week of study and rules! Besides, a prison is a punishment for wrong doing!! Are you saying that school is a “punishment”? There no “human choice” once you’re in school! There is a “choice” whether to attend private or public school, which school to choose, etc., but one you chose there are guidelines that EVERYONE, in public or private institutions has to follow. Otherwise, if everyone could pick and choose what time they show up, whether they stay in class or not, what subjects the want to study, etc., there would be anarchy and chaos and no one would learn anything! While I am not a fan of anything government run and I am a Christian and lean towards the right wing, I have to say this kind of drivel is insane! Of course she looks forward to the weekend!! Who doesn’t?? Don’t you? Everyone that works, goes to school, has responsibilities looks forward to the time when they can relax, sit back and enjoy a little respite from the grind stone. Unfortunately for most of us that’s life!

And thirdly, must you and everyone else like you always look for hidden meanings and writings between the lines? Here’s a way to look at it: THIS IS JUST A NORMAL TEENAGE GIRL WHO THOUGHT UP A SONG AND PUT IT ON YOU TUBE!!! That’s it! No cries for someone to liberate her from the “prison” that is her school, no evil tendencies, no devil worshiping or whatever it is that those people who sent her death threats think she is doing! Just a girl singing a song! End of story! What is most disturbing to me in all this is how seemingly mature grownups like you are picking apart and dissecting this simple thing that is a song sang by a teenage girl on you tube which is, I might add, something that millions of people do these days simply because you tube is such a great outlet to showcase whatever talent you may have!

Here’s good advice for you and all those like you: LIGHTEN UP! Not everything has a deep interpretation and a hidden message or meaning. Somethings are just what they are!

I don’t get why this is so hard to understand.

You are 100% correct about the music business model related questions that has been proved time and time again with all the one hit wonders, and nepotist produced recording deals. Kids like the young lady in questions would get bounced and bumped around and has to go through a heck of a lot before she could assume commend of any sort of a future where often man talented people never achieve success nor are never recognized for what they do (my fav example VAN GOGH).

Oh on a musical level the song was ok (please give the kid a break screw the producer)
but with the mount of gizmos computer software etc available it is amazing that the musical industry and these charlatan producers often don’t even come close to the likes of Woody Guthrie, Beethoven Bach and Sunny Aide.

What am I poetically attempting to say in this anti-libertarian example of political prose?

Every one in an uncontrolled environment has the potential to excel the issue is not libertarian but one of social focus and direction encapsulated within the many paradoxes of human social existence, where there are many child soldiers in Africa and in ghetto drug gangs and no hope for a future for many.

This example of a video display by a 13 young fairly attractive white semi-privileged member of on of America’s brainless suburbs exemplifies NOTHING as a most challenging feat would be for her to be black from a remote African rural village without access to technology money social support etc.the fact that Mises Institute has attempted to opportunistically use the video in question rhetorically is obscene as they as well the social demographics of Suburban California with their youthful 13-16 drivers ed students cars bought by mummy and daddy.

I once worked with someone who wanted to con people into believing he was an artist musician but who suggested he could the telephone book into a song for lyrics but that is not art, neither was he an artist in that his most notable criterion for determining what he thought was art was the number of copies a song sold.

A TRULY BOGUS DUDE REGARDLESS OF WHO HIS FRIENDS WERE!
TRULY BOGUS AS IS THE MISES INSTITUTE which could be better off run by well behaved 5 year olds in pre-school.

And don’t get me started on the Objectivist nature of my Target receipt.

Black’s song is not about “the underlying celebration of liberation,” nor are its fans connecting with that non-existent sentiment. The song, if anything, represents the meaningless fleeting interests of a bored teenager. People are fascinated with the song in much the same way that they are captivated by the self-induced embarrassment of other talentless “stars” like William Hung or the trainwreck of Charlie Sheen. People don’t like the video because it is good or because it represents value; they are drawn to it as they are drawn to watching grotesque car accidents. Many people are strangely nihilistic, responding not to value but to its mockery and destruction.

My assertion that “Friday” neither appeals to nor intends to appeal to a celebration of life and liberty is supported by the fact that other art which is explicitly anti-tyranny and pro-freedom– intentionally addressing the issues that Tucker projects onto “Friday”– is not particularly popular. If our culture were responding to the noble idea of freedom from school, “The Schoolboy” poem by William Black would be a greatest hit made into 100 different remixes. Unlike Blake, who wants to be out of school to pursue values, Black seems to treats the rest of her life like she treats school: just another boring, undirected, uninteresting “blah.” Even many rap songs, like NWA’s “F*** tha Police,” or much of Tupac’s work, would be better examples of pro-freedom lyrics than is “Friday.” That more well-reasoned and artistic anti-school, self-celebrating songs and poems do not show the viral popularity of “Friday” indicates that it is not those values to which people are responding.

If I were to proceed with the far-fetched notion that Black’s “Friday” has any larger philosophical implications, it would not be that she longs for Friday so that she can escape the tyrannical school. Rather than wanting freedom from government intrusion, it’s more like she and her fans want freedom from the responsibility of carving out productive and worthwhile lives.

Now back to work in the prison of my large multinational corporate work environment…

Well, there’s a second redeeming grace: that it entertains those people who find it entertaining!