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nothin' hootin' matters!!!

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in reply to @hthrflwrs's post:

a few weeks ago, i went through the song ratings page on This Might Be a Wiki to see like, what's the best song at the lowest rating. where on the bottom of the list do i first say "hey that seems way too low"

i was surprised to find Hot Cha at #775 out of 910. 775!! bullshit. so i guess i'd say Hot Cha

At least when I checked a few years ago, the wiki's rating system was totally broken, in some confusing ways I can't quite remember, but which I think both affected the sorting in some way and prevented me from submitting my own ratings. Maybe they've fixed it by now, but I wouldn't trust them to be an accurate reflection of much of anything.

Methodology: looked at the TMBG wiki list of songs, starting from the lowest ranked, until one made me go "huh."
Result: S-E-X-X-Y
I think people are usually quite comfortable not knowing what to make of a TMBG song, but don't extend the same benefit of the doubt to S-E-X-X-Y because what if they're saying something gross about sex. To me, it falls under the same umbrella as Beck's Sexx Laws: funky, unserious, lightly transgressive, just generally a good time

On Earth My Nina is ranked #851 on the wiki, is weirdly haunting/beautiful/surreal/heartbreaking, and it turns out is Linnell's interpretation of listening to a different TMBG song they didn't release until years later called Thunderbird, a lighthearted, upbeat song about a car