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May 19th, 2020 2:14pm

Breeding Them For Clones


The Magnetic Fields “The Biggest Tits in History”

The core joke of this song is a bit of a groaner – the tits in question are birds, haha – but Stephin Merritt knows that and so the actual humor of the lyrics comes from the strange details he has to write in to reverse engineer a character’s life from the very thin premise. The craft is strong, starting with ambiguous language but by the third verse tossing in details about cloning birds for the government and intercepting drones. The song is sung by longtime Merritt foil Shirley Simms, who delivers the lines with a rock sneer that hits all the marks in getting across Merritt’s droll tone without overtly signaling “this is a joke song,” so it’s easy to imagine someone just half-listening to it and not noticing that it’s not about some extremely busty lady.

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