own rendition of the “wannabe weekend-party anthem,” as Yahoo’s Lyndsey Parker put it in her music blog, and giving it a holy twist, the Creative Arts Staff at Community Christian Church quickly got to work.
“Parody has been a really important part of what we do as a church creatively,” said Eric Bramlett, who helped develop the “Sunday” lyrics with his brother Elic, the Associate Creative Director better known as “Master E,” and one of the rappers seen in the video. “It’s just one of things we’re always looking at, [trying to see] what we can draw from it.”
Bramlett, who joined the Creative Arts team in 1996, has helped spin everything from “Modern Family” to the classic Mac vs. PC debates.
Taking on 13-year-old Black this time, Bramlett told The Christian Post, “We wanted to make this thing as close to the original as we could, while trying to invite people to the Easter weekend service. We thought we could use this to spread the love and spread the fun so our attendees could invite their friends to our church too.”
With oddly addicting lyrics just like the original, “It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday ” is replaced by “It’s Sunday, Sunday, head to church on Sunday.”
It’s all about worshippin’ and looking forward to the Easter weekend for Sadie B., the main girl in the music video who happens to also be Bramlett’s 12-year-old daughter.
Speaking of his daughter’s involvement, Bramlett mentioned, “She’s just really happy to be able to be a part of something like that having grown up as a preacher’s kid so to speak [and] she’s excited about the prospect of her friends coming to church.”
While Rebecca Black ponders things like which seat to take in her friend’s car, Sadie B. has more, or rather equally, important things to think about like … front pew or back?
As “Sunday’s” popularity is quickly rising on YouTube – it was only released this past Wednesday but already has over 108,000 views to date and its own handful of dislikes and likes – will Sadie and the church undergo the same ridicule and criticism that Black’s “Friday” has been receiving?
(Many have called Black’s original “a whole new level of bad,” “a mind-meltingly horrific song,” and “super-trite songwriting.”)
