So at last it is Friday, the notional end of the working week. The day for which we should give thanks to God (TGIF) and if can remember that for back ‘Crunchie’.
“Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” is a song co-written and recorded by American singer Katy Perry from her third studio album, Teenage Dream. The song had chart success worldwide, reaching number one in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and has attained top-ten positions in Austria, Ireland, Italy, and Poland. By topping the US Billboard, Perry became the first female solo artist to have five number-one singles on the Hot 100 from a single album; it also was Perry’s sixth number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and her fifth consecutive number one single. The single has sold 3.8 million digital copies in the US and was the tenth most played single on US radio during 2011. The song’s accompanying music video was directed by Marc Klasfeld. The clip features Perry, as her teenage alter-ego Kathy Beth Terry, at a house party filled with music and dancing. While at the party, Terry is made over by her friend and draws attention to herself as the life of the party.
“Friday I’m in Love” is a song by British band The Cure. Released as the second single from their album Wish (1992), the song was a worldwide hit, reaching number 6 in the UK and number 18 in the U.S. It also won the award for European Viewer’s Choice for Best Music Video at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards. Robert Smith, the song’s primary writer, described it in 1992 as both “a throw your hands in the air, let’s get happy kind of record” and “a very naïve, happy type of pop song.”
Stefania Liberakakis, known simply as Stefania, is a Greek-Dutch singer, (voice) actress and YouTuber. She is a former member of the girl group Kisses, which represented the Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016. In 2020, she was internally selected to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with the song “Supergirl”, but this edition of the contest was later cancelled due to COVID-19. The Greek broadcaster ERT decided that Liberakakis will represent Greece in the 2021 contest instead. After emerging from lockdown with a high school diploma and even more confidence than before, she has released “Friday” — the song that finished second in her internal song selection for ESC in Rotterdam.
Arabesque was an all-girl trio formed at the height of the European Disco era in 1977 in Frankfurt. The group’s changing lineup worked with the German composer Jean Frankfurter (Erich Ließmann) and became especially popular in Japan and the Soviet Union. This disco horror is their first single “Friday Night” Enough said!
The Specials, also known as The Special AKA, are an English 2 Tone and Ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry. Their music combines a “danceable ska and rocksteady beat with punk’s energy and attitude”. Lyrically, they present a “more focused and informed political and social stance”. Friday Night, Saturday Morning” was written by lead singer Terry Hall and describes a mundane night out in Coventry. It was issued as a B side to their massive song “Ghost Town” released in June 1981. The song spent three weeks at number one and 10 weeks in total in the UK Singles Chart.
