my roommate who is like. the most straight laced cis dude ever. just came into the living room and said “the masculine urge to get pregnant.” then stood there for a second before leaving silently.
ill fight anyone. ill fight you. ill fight myself. i dont care. now if youll excuse me i’m having a panic attack because someone seemed mildly annoyed with me
let me just tell yall i wont get over what a trip and a half it was to log onto tumblr dot com, hear all about how moffat & his who run was evil misogyny incarnate, because, i shit you not, “the female companions’ lives revolve around the doctor”, and how rtd who was way better, only to go watch dr who from the jump and be confronted with the first black companion ever’s entire storyline being about her unrequited sad crush on the doctor
Nah, you don’t get it. Temporary Secretary is an incredible balancing act. It’s unlistenably terrible yet impossible to turn off. Listening to it once will imprint that nasally chorus on your mind for all time. Whatever artistic impulse forced McCartney to create this is the same spirit that created The Room, which is insane, because McCartney was already considered a master singer-songwriter at this point in his career. Anyone who has ever listened to it has had to actively seek it out.
On the other hand, #Thirsty offers me nothing. It is the nadir of 2010s millennial culture: a song for frat boys for a demographic already growing too old to use it. There is no sincerity here, none of the weird glimpses of artistic expression that make Temporary Secretary fascinating. It’s a void. This is the sound the porcelain makes when the vomit hits it.
Temporary Secretary is an endangered, poisonous frog in the zoo. Being near it is dangerous, but it’s fascinating. #Thirsty is an invasive toad that you need to flatten with your Subaru.
i hate to make a long post longer but i have to disagree with you. on, like, multiple levels. the first really baseline personal subjective thing is that thirsty sounds forgettable, aside from the yodeling and the really annoying repetition of “thirsty thirsty thirsty,” which doesn’t even last that long. most of the song is just ajr doing ajr things in terms of audio. temporary secretary on the other hand is a brick wall of bad music, and continuing to listen to it means to continue walking into the wall. i start frowning as soon as i hear that annoying synth and my frown deepens when the chorus hits and it never gets better. i highly agree that it’s tough to turn off and it’ll imprint on your mind for all time, but for me that’s more of an exercise in masochism than proof of artistry.
this takes me to the actual point im trying to make. i would argue that while “insincere and boring” is less interesting than upsetting, it’s definitely not as deserving of the title “worst of all time”! to extend the amphibian metaphor, the endangered and poisonous frog is more of a threat than the random toad. i’m gonna forget about the toad in a week. the frog that could kill me if i touch it never leaves me.
i mean, it looks like based on how the votes are stacking up the frog absolutely will leave me, but, like.
on a thematic level, i think a(n in)famously bad song that everyone has always needed to search for in order to feel the displeasure of listening to deserves to be described as “worst song ever” much more than a song that will be forgotten the minute it’s knocked out of a round. think about it. this is a poll for the worst song ever. any hack can make #thirsty. we may not have another temporary secretary for another generation.
i gritted my teeth and waited for thirsty to be over and didnt enjoy one single second of it except when it was finally over, i danced so hard to temporary secretary i thought i was going to have an asthma attack. how is this even a question. how is this even close. everyone who thinks temporary secretary is actually *unlistenable* needs to pack it up and go to super weenie hut jrs
dear god please let our new baby octopus feel confident enough to move out of her corner hiding spot today while i’m on exhibits so i can see her properly for the first time amen
she stuck out a single arm before changing her mind and deciding the rest of the tank is too scary, far too scary by far she is scared
