Music Review: Daniel Bedingfield "Friday"

Friday
Album: Gotta Get Thru This
Year: 2003

Daniel Bedingfield is a void whenever his girlfriend leaves him for a trip in the square trance beats of "Friday."

After the homemade Casio beats begin, Bedingfield lists all the faraway places he's lived. Including a brand of gum. He mentions for some unknown reason that he can't do the salsa. He's a neurotic person who's unaware of his surroundings. He self-destructs when she tells him goodbye. He says he could be in a random California suburb and not notice that it's his home. It's as though a part of him has been chopped off and put in the meat grinder. Without her affection, he cannot go on another day. "I live in a nice house/I never do dance salsa/
I'm living in Jamiaca/I live in an Ice Breaker/I'm living in Africa/I never do know where/Where I'm living but I'm living in a free fall/Whenever she goes away/Might as well be in San Jose/
'Cause I never can tell where my/Where my heart's gonna spend it's time/Half of me's missing
I miss her kissing/I don't know nothing but I know."

He manically repeats that she's returning home on Friday in the chorus. It's the one thing in his life he can look forward to. "She's coming back on Friday/She's coming back on Friday/She's coming back on Friday/She's coming back on Friday..."

He can't concentrate on anything in the second verse. He can't sleep, his heart is pounding and has a creepy, blank stare. He frowns and paces the rooms in his home. The days are endless. "My head is a hurricane/My heart is a touch insane/And my body can't sleep to dream/And my eyes open up to scream/And my mouth is a thin straight line/As I'm struggling to pass the time/And my crime is that I'm living life without her/And the morning soon will come/
And the days nearly almost done/And the clock says it's half past five/But the sun is still in the sky."

He adds that he's confused, not knowing the time and date. He also can't be pleased with another person's company. It has to be her. "Disorientated/Insatiated/How long I've waited but I know."

After the chorus, the Atari beats jump through spooky rhythms, solidifying the menacing tone.

The second verse and chorus are sung one more time each to end the single.

"Friday" is second most creepiest songs I ever heard, next to Bedingfield's "If You're Not The One." One stalker song could be written off as poor writing. Two stalker songs, both involving unhealthy devotion, is a cause to inch far far away from Bedingfield and think: "is this the guy I would like to actively crush on?"

His idea of an ideal relationship is skewed to the point that he's insane. With his frantic singing and repetition of the phrase "she's coming back on Friday," he's insane. While it may have been the point of the single, insanity is still not an attractive quality.

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