Washing Machine Minutes

This is a bouncy, deadpan novelty indie-pop song about the way everyday time refuses to add up. The chorus takes one household mystery at face value: “Can someone tell me why washing machine minutes and real world minutes are not even close to being the same?” 1

The verses stack two more time anomalies on top. The first finds the narrator at their most reachable when they are on the clock, and completely unavailable once they are back home 2. The second stands in the yard at midnight filming a full moon like it has never happened before — which, every month, it apparently has not 3. The bridge finally stops to ask whether the clock is broken or the laundry is simply being honest.

Listen when some small absurdity has been quietly bothering you all week: on a laundry-folding afternoon, on a commute, or anywhere a spin cycle has already wrecked your sense of time. The source wording and author credit belong to @muheediva01, @missNgrunge and @SusuDpeng.