Video: 'Rebekah Brooks' Sings Rebecca Black's 'Friday'

Rebekah Brooks and Rupert Murdoch in London.

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The latest parody of Rebecca Black's viral pop hit "Friday" rewrites the goofy, absurdly catchy tune from the perspective of Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World editor at the center of the News Corporation's phone-hacking scandal in the United Kingdom. Though this video most definitely originated in its creators realizing that Rebecca Black and Rebekah Brooks are roughly similar names, the journalism scandal maps very well on the song, particularly when the heavily Auto-Tuned "Rebekah" sings "Phone hacking, phone hacking, yeah! / Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun" over its most irresistible hook.

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Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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