Margaret Is Multitalented

I unironically really enjoy the opera-rap + tuba sections.

Okay so it’s finals season which means I’ve cracked and need to go on my ramble about one of my favorite pieces of music of all time: The Most Unwanted Song.

The thing about this song isn’t that it’s bad. It’s a special kind of horrific. It’s so bad it crosses the invisible artistic barrier and becomes brilliant. And it was designed for that. 

See back in the 1990s these two artists decided to make a series of paintings (I promise it’s connected). Graphic designers  Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid sat down to create the “best” and “worst” paintings based on opinion polls. There’s commentary about public opinion in there, but that’s not the point right now. The point is, they were approached by a gallery owner and asked to make a CD using the same principle. 

So they started polling people. Turns out, the American public, when asked about what they hate in music, has a lot of answers. Winning answers included bagpipes, opera, rap, intellectually stimulating music (hah!), cowboy music, swearing in music, long songs, songs about America, children’s choirs, advertising jingles, and accordions. 

And then they set out to put all those things into one song with the help of Dave Soldier. 

And boy did they succeed. 

In order to make this song work, they couldn’t just have all the individual elements working separately. There wasn’t time for that, and they would have lost a lot of unity. So they went the inventive direction. So that’s why we have a opera-rap soprano singing lyrics with casual profanity about being a cowboy and philosophical discussions. That’s how we get this: 

It’s 22 minutes long. 22 minutes to consider your place in the universe. 

People also hate politics in songs, so at the end someone screams a protest rant through a bullhorn. At one point it sounds like someone is throwing up in the background. 

The best part of this, of course is that it was done by professional musicians. It’s pretty clear that they know what they’re doing and are choosing to do it really really badly. It adds to that flavor of chaos. 

I genuinely believe that everyone should listen to this song at least once. If nothing else, it will be funny. 

fuck esports, the only correct way to play smash is the way my 7 y/o niece plays it: connecting 2 controllers, setting one as peach, setting the other as marth, pretending marth is peach’s boyfriend and then playing virtual barbie and ken with them

i like walking toward a glass door or tall window and watching my hips in the reflection 💖

An undertaker's favorite foods are gravey, dirt pudding, and Tombstone pizza

Why are undertakers always so tired?

Because they’re always taking graveyard shifts!

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

the beverage brand Fruit2O is pronounced "difruit monoxide"

The Extent of my Knowledge of Hazbin Hotel

My credentials:

I watched a youtube poop

my girlfriend likes the show

a scene with a song my gf liked was on while I was in the room once

existing on the internet and being exposed to it against my will

sparse research

this is HAZBIN

she is related to billy the puppet

her best friend is vagina

she thinks being evil is bad so shes trying to teach the evil guys to stop

This is VAGINA

shes not really into whatevers going on

probably needs to see a doctor or something

might have a vagina

This is RADIO MAN

he makes my eyes hurt when i look at him

talks like an old radio

video killed the radio star

hes like a jackalope man or something

This is GAY SPIDER

He likes to smoke crack

He can sus

Has C cups

daddy kink

he looks like if they decided to make pink eye a villain in the episode of the osmosis jones tv show

makes me think about that song about the guy fucking the spider

This is THE BOSS

porn

shes from a different show i think in the twizzler cinematic universe

her best friend is richard horvitz

her orange cousin isnt even fat

accidentally went into a men's restroom because I glimpsed the letters "M-E-N" and recognized those as the last three letters of "women" and thought I had all the information I needed

when i was a kid i thought the jingle cats were real and my favorite band