the term bye felicia came from the film friday.
the term bye felicia came from the film friday.
what film did the term bye felicia come from?
friday
in 2014, vh1 began airing a television show called "bye felicia", and american r&b-pop singer jordin sparks released a mixtape titled "#byefelicia". according to google trends, the phrase reached its highest usage in mid-2015.









































in the movie "straight outta compton" (2015), o'shea jackson, jr. (ice cube's son) said, "bye, felicia!", when throwing a girl named felicia out of his hotel room. naming the girl felicia was not an intentional reference to "friday", but when jackson ad-libbed the line as a "coincidental joke", the filmmakers decided to keep it in the film.
bye, felicia
set in the home counties, london and wiltshire in the mid-1920s. slim tall fair-haired felicia cunningham, 15, is second-youngest in a family of eight children – or rather two families with one father. the house in the country is full of tensions, so felicia escapes through dreams and long walks. her favourite sister (only true sister) is the clever, analytical helen, 18, who is off soon to newnham, cambridge. felicia depends for happiness on helen's presence and misses her badly when she's away; helen loves felicia and sometimes forgets, in their chats, that she's only 15. helen was a hit at miss ffoliot's boarding-school for girls, and now it's felicia's turn to be sent there. felicia hates school: miss ffoliot is paranoid about over-close relationships between the girls. she does make one friend, bohemian bridget sholto, and in the holidays in london meets bridget's brother james. helen meanwhile learns that their step-sister anne, 26, married to a perfectly nice compatible academic, is restless in her marriage (for the first time in jones, perfect compatibility, a theme of earlier novels, is not enough). this shakes all helen's beliefs: whom, then, should one marry? what's the point of going to cambridge and finding suitable male-friends? their step-brother cathcart, 30, meanwhile, has become besotted, in society london, with a friend's sister, the beautiful rich pamela wake, who won't have him; but in the course of a visit to the wakes with cathcart, helen meets pamela's brother conrad wake, who is impressed by her and invites her to scotland. there he proposes marriage; helen accepts him and decides not to go up to cambridge. felicia is torn: afraid of losing helen but struck by conrad, who is rich, handsome, wise, kind – and who drives a long sleek powerful motor car. helen and conrad are happily married, though helen worries that they are so different – she is endlessly analytical and loves mutual confidences, he is the strong silent country type. when felicia, now 17, visits them in their big country house in wiltshire, conrad notices her grace and her love of riding and the country. at 18 felicia leaves boarding-school early and joins a dance-school in london where james sholto is the only male student. in london she attracts the attention of predatory men and is rescued by james. one day, now 19, she is off to visit the sholtos, when a long sleek powerful motor car passes by in the street. on impulse she takes a train to the country to visit helen and conrad, back from their holidays, but finds only conrad at home (helen has stayed on with friends). he hosts her with perfect gentlemanly tact and hospitality; indeed he is so wonderful (a sort english dick diver) she feels uncomfortable and feels she must leave. later she confesses to helen, now 22, that she finds conrad very attractive. helen sees that conrad is also in love with felicia, though conrad and helen are happy with and sure of one another. "it's not natural to be chaste," thinks helen. "she ought to have love affairs; she's nineteen and a half." wanting felicia to live with them and not feel uncomfortable, she lets felicia know that "nothing could ever come between us" (the two sisters) and that "we must take what pleasure we can". she generously absents herself, and in the interval, in a passage of great beauty and delicate symbolism (the setting is summer), conrad takes felicia's virginity. the novel ends with the two sisters and conrad in a blissful ménage-à-trois.
e. b. c. jones