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Wash Your Fucking Hands
Metadata
- title
- Wash Your Fucking Hands
- meaning
- CDC hand-washing PSA as song: the refrain runs exactly twenty seconds: functional pandemic gag on Masks and Monsters.
- year
- 2020
- release
- Masks and Monsters
- releaseType
- album
- artist
- Scoobert Doobert
- artistId
- #scoobert
- credits
- Written, performed, mixed, and mastered by Luke Francis Walton. Album art by Gentle Giant Illustrations.
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/album/13zzM1QEnrvJ7kRwUGNIFw
- officialVideo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuvQ4e4sZXA
- apple
- https://music.apple.com/us/album/wash-your-f-g-hands/1526427944?i=1526428028
- themes
- pandemic
- COVID
- Masks and Monsters
- public health
- meme
- isrc
- QZK6P2060452
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Lyrics
Wash your fucking hands Take a little time to Make sure you're clean Ooo At least twenty seconds Yeah
Content
Track seven on Masks and Monsters: Luke solo, North Park lockdown, August 2020. A one-joke interstitial after the emotional run of tracks one through six, in the same memetic production register the Critical Meme Reader later named on this LP.
The lyrics are just the March 2020 public-health script, CDC guidance to scrub for at least twenty seconds, turned into a chorus. The catch: the refrain runs exactly twenty seconds, so the song is a timer you can sing in the sink. Comedy that also works as instruction, same spirit as the album's cartoon shell carrying real COVID weight.
Sits between A Good Life and the back-half absurdity, a palate cleanser between love-song denial and the rest of the monster tracklist. Pairs with Creature Comfort as another early-pandemic hygiene beat on the same record.