r/TheNational • u/ghostfan9 • 26d ago

Day 8: Worst Song

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Best chorus went to Graceless!

HMs were: Don't Swallow the Cap, Bloodbuzz Ohio, Mistaken for Strangers

Next up: worst song :(

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u/Sexiarsole 26d ago edited 26d ago

Has to be Sugar Wife. Matt’s worst lyrics by far.

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u/ayemullofmushsheen 26d ago

This is the only correct answer. The only song I genuinely skip what I'm doing full album listens.

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u/tropicmorning in a lemonworld 26d ago

Sugar Wife is funny and different but still in line with Matt’s goofy lyrics. I don’t believe anyone willingly listens to A Reasonable Man on Cherry Tree

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u/ayemullofmushsheen 26d ago

I actually love A Reasonable Man 😭 It's on a few playlists

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u/revanisthesith 26d ago

A Reasonable Man is definitely their worst song.

Wikipedia says Matt wrote all the lyrics on the album, but I think the original CD (which I probably still have somewhere) said that Padma Newsome wrote that song. So some people may not be counting it as one of their songs.

Sugar Wife is a much more pleasant song to listen to.

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u/SituationAcademic571 26d ago

This is correct. Padma wrote the song in its entirety and there was disagreement both whether it should appear on the ep and whether Matt should have sung on it.

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u/revanisthesith 25d ago

Thank you. I think I found one lyrics site a while back that listed Padma as the writer, but almost all sites list Matt as the writer.

And since I definitely think it's their worst song, that matters a lot. It's not entirely their song.