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title: "Shitty Robots"

meaning: "Plague Beats robot death wish: self-aware worthless, shitty domination and inflation: conspiracy on the web, I'll name it QAnon."

year: 2021
release: "Plague Beats, Vol. 2"
releaseType: "EP"

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

credits: "Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton."

apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/s-y-robots/1567468209?i=1567468215"
spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3q7oAEFJK9uSHY4F8EJ5Td"
officialVideo: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbo7RD0c3GA"

themes: ["Plague Beats", "robots", "meme", "2021", "satire", "QAnon"]

isrc: QZHN72103924
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  I am just a
  Shitty robot
  With a death wish

  Yeah who would make me
  Self-aware
  And worthless

  Oh, I don't know

  I'll tell you my robot fantasies
  I want a real anatomy
  A logical brilliant battery
  To power me to
  My shitty robot domination
  You'll all know humiliation
  I'll build the shittiest nation
  With inflation

  I know
  I'll start a conspiracy
  Idiots all on the web will follow me

  I'll name it QAnon

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Track five on **Plague Beats, Vol. 2** (**May 14, 2021**), one minute, Luke solo. [Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/s-y-robots/1567468209?i=1567468215) titles it **S\*\*\*\*y Robots**; DistroKid and this page use **Shitty Robots**.

It opens on existential junk (*self-aware and worthless*), Pinocchio inverted in the [Shitty Robots](https://www.youtube.com/user/ShittyRobots) meme lineage of deliberately bad machines, then spirals into villain-origin comedy: world domination at minimum viable quality, *the shittiest nation / with inflation*. The punchline lands the whole thing as 2021 satire: *I'll start a conspiracy / idiots all on the web will follow me / I'll name it QAnon*. Same meme-POV monologue as [*Birds With Arms*](/songs/birds-with-arms/), with broken tech in place of broken bird.

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