“What a terrible image.”

April 11, 2020 10:03 AM

Speaking Moistly 🎶 On Tuesday, Justin Trudeau gave a press conference explaining how wearing masks can prevent “breathing or speaking moistly.” On Wednesday, the Prime Minister himself went viral. The autotuned remix is the quick work of Edmonton musician Brock Tyler.

In vaguely related Canadiana, see also: Moist – Breathe

posted by oulipian (21 comments total)

Legit earworm. After being exposed to it, I’ve caught myself singing it idly without meaning to.
posted by rodlymight at 10:13 AM on April 11, 2020 [1 favorite]

Oh no, it's so catchy.
posted by merriment at 10:20 AM on April 11, 2020 [9 favorites]

Love how the sign language interpreters in the video sort of become back-up dancers (especially on "keep two metres apart")
posted by btfreek at 10:31 AM on April 11, 2020 [4 favorites]

The look of regret on his face as the word “moistly” fell out of his mouth… We’ve all been there!
posted by some chick at 10:57 AM on April 11, 2020 [5 favorites]

The bad image of the word 'moist' is sadly overrated. A lifetime battle with dry skin has taught me that there us nothing wrong with being moisturized... unless the moisture source is a non-loved-one. I'd rather be moist than soggy.
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:35 PM on April 11, 2020 [2 favorites]

Trudeau says "Speaking moistly" during update and immediately regrets it

The news anchor on the far right entertained me as much as the original clip—she was just LOSING IT on air.

(Also, does Ben Mulroney ever look like his dad. What a strange world I live in: there’s a global pandemic and the son of one of my childhood prime ministers is commenting on something the son of one of my other prime ministers said...in his capacity as current prime minister.)
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 12:39 PM on April 11, 2020 [7 favorites]

There's already a bunch of acoustic covers.
posted by chrominance at 1:46 PM on April 11, 2020 [7 favorites]

I laughed so hard when I heard him say that on the radio!
posted by fimbulvetr at 2:10 PM on April 11, 2020 [1 favorite]

Metafilter: moistly harmless
posted by pykrete jungle at 2:12 PM on April 11, 2020 [4 favorites]

Singer Andrew Phelan turned the track into an upbeat, guitar-lick driven bop that actually sort of slaps.

Indeed it does! This meta-covering riffing is even better than the original autotune gag (which is kind of played out in general, though this one is pretty well done)
posted by ctmf at 2:19 PM on April 11, 2020

I also just want to comment on the amazing weirdness that is the sentence "That is ok."

The mixture of the non-contraction and the use of "ok" sets up just that tiniest bit of dissonance within three words, three syllables, SEVEN LETTERS, that put the sentence somewhere between "Testifying Zuckerberg" and "Quizzical Data" on the awkward scale.
posted by pykrete jungle at 2:30 PM on April 11, 2020 [1 favorite]

Moistly. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
posted by RobotHero at 3:00 PM on April 11, 2020 [1 favorite]

*EIGHT LETTERS
posted by pykrete jungle at 3:05 PM on April 11, 2020

Thank gods for the acoustic covers. This is genuinely catchy, but man do I loathe songs made from auto-tuned speech. I can hear the Fourier coefficients being contorted, and their screams make me cry.
posted by 3j0hn at 3:05 PM on April 11, 2020 [1 favorite]

I've had it as a literal earworm most of the morning and I really like the acoustic covers. Unlike anything that's come of another leader's coronavirus pressers, this is likely to have a positive effect. Especially when masks become widely available.

I've had limited luck with homemade masks; my ears are apparently too floppy so I've had to try different approaches to secure them.
posted by sjswitzer at 3:15 PM on April 11, 2020

Apparently the quarantine is beginning to erode my mental faculties, because that made me laugh harder than I have at anything in a long time. It's so stupid! It's so catchy! It's so sublimely DUMB!
posted by Kat Allison at 4:16 PM on April 11, 2020 [1 favorite]

(I sent the link to some friends with an email saying something like "it's so fuuunnnnnyyyyy!!" and they replied with a delicate and tactful inquiry as to whether I was perhaps starting a fever.)
posted by Kat Allison at 4:20 PM on April 11, 2020 [1 favorite]

They moistly come out at night. Moistly.
posted by hototogisu at 4:51 PM on April 11, 2020 [4 favorites]

Shit, the Adam Carter cover is my new favorite song.
posted by Gaz Errant at 5:33 PM on April 11, 2020 [5 favorites]

Today I walked past a big sign in someone’s front window: “And the Lord said, thou shalt not speak moistly.” Gave me a genuine laugh.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 6:42 PM on April 11, 2020 [6 favorites]

Moistly. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

They moistly come at night. Moistly.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 4:18 AM on April 12, 2020 [2 favorites]