15 years of ‘Friday’: Looking back at Rebecca Black’s 2011 viral music video

Try to remember where you were the first time you experienced Rebecca Black’s song “Friday.”

It shouldn’t take long.

Released on Feb. 10, 2011, the music video picked up a few thousand views over the month that followed, enough to thrill the then-13-year-old Rebecca, but it wasn’t something likely to attract much attention beyond the middle-schooler’s friends and family in Orange County’s Anaheim Hills.

Then, a month or so later, comedian Daniel Tosh mentioned it on the blog...