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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
lyrics: |
  Wash your fucking hands
  Take a little time to
  Make sure you're clean
  Ooo
  At least twenty seconds
  Yeah

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Track seven on [*Masks and Monsters*](/albums/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](/albums/masks-and-monsters/) register the [Critical Meme Reader](/publications/masks-monsters-and-memes/) later named on this LP.

The lyrics are just the March 2020 public-health script, [CDC guidance](https://www.cdc.gov/clean-hands/about/index.html) 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*](/songs/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*](/songs/creature-comfort/) as another early-pandemic hygiene beat on the same record.

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