Nicole Westbrook - Thanksgiving

About

Nicole Westbrook’s “Thanksgiving” is a music video by the producers of Rebecca Black’s Friday in which 12-year-old Nicole Westbrook sings about the United States holiday Thanksgiving.

Origin

The patmuzic YouTube channel uploaded a video titled “Nicole Westbrook – It’s Thanksgiving” on November 7th, 2012, featuring a music video in which 12-year-old Nicole Westbrook performs the song “It’s Thanksgiving” (shown below). The video was produced by Patrice Wilson,^[1] previously known for writing and producing the music video “Friday” starring Rebecca Black. Within eight days, the video accumulated over 7.7 million views and 68,700 comments.

Oh oh oh. Oh oh oh. Oh yeah.
Oh oh oh. Oh oh oh. Alright. Come on.
I’m wide awake. And I should take. A step and say thank you, thank you.
The things you’ve done. And what you did. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah.

December was Christmas. January was New Year. April was Easter. And the 4th of July, but November’s Thanksgiving.

Oh oh oh it’s Thanksgiving. We are gonna have a good time.
Oh oh oh it’s Thanksgiving. We are gonna have a good time.
With a turkey, mash potatoes, and we are gonna have a good time.

School is out, I can shout, thank you, thank you.
No matter how you do, no matter what you say, this is my favorite.

Yo. It’s Thankgiving giving and I’m trying to be forgiving.
Nothing is forbidden. You know what I gotta have.
I gotta give thanks to you, and you, and you.
Gotta be grateful, can’t be hateful.
Mash potatoes on my on my table.
I got ribs smelling up my neighbor’s cribs.

Spread

On November 9th, the viral content site BuzzFeed^[2] highlighted the video in a post titled “The Only Thanksgiving Song You’ll Need to Hear,” which included several animated GIFs of Patrice Wilson (shown below).

The same day, the video was reposted on the women’s interest blog Jezebel,^[3] the Internet news blog UpRoxx,^[4] Time^[5] and The Huffington Post.^[6]