| 词条 | Temporary Secretary |
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| name = Temporary Secretary | cover = 62341ts.jpg | alt = | border = yes | type = single | artist = Paul McCartney | album = McCartney II | B-side = Secret Friend | released = 15 September 1980 | format = 12" single | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = Electropop | length = 3:13 | label = Parlophone/EMI | writer = Paul McCartney | producer = Paul McCartney | prev_title = Waterfalls | prev_year = 1980 | next_title = Ebony and Ivory | next_year = 1982 | misc = {{Extra track listing | album = McCartney II | type = studio | tracks = {{McCartney II tracks}} }}{{Extra album cover | header = Back cover | type = single | cover = PM TempSec SecFrnd.jpg | border = yes | alt = | caption = }} }} "Temporary Secretary" is a song by Paul McCartney, featured on his 1980 album McCartney II. In 2013, Rolling Stone ranked it the #36 all-time McCartney post-Beatles song, calling it a "cult favorite" and an "oddly catchy electro-pop nugget, about a slightly creepy-sounding guy looking to hire a temp."[1] In 2014, "Temporary Secretary" was ranked as one of the greatest songs of all time by critics of NME magazine. They described it as "wonky electropop that didn't sound so much ahead of its time as out of it altogether."[2] Background{{quote|It's like a disposable secretary, and it struck me as being funny. The song is written from the point of view of a fellow who just wants a disposable secretary, and he's writing to a bureau to try and get one. I just like the idea. I just thought it was funny, you know, asking for a temporary secretary rather than a secretary. ... That sound on the track, which is like a space typewriter, is a sequence machine. I used that to give me a tempo and, again, I just made the song up as I went along. It was a little influenced by Ian Dury.|Paul McCartney[3]}}McCartney later said that he had had temporary secretaries, and that there was a real Mr. Marks. {{quote|After I left Apple I still had business stuff coming up, so in trying to figure out how I could cope with that there were a couple of times I just grabbed someone to just put my letters in order and help. But that track isn't about a specific person. What it's about is, there was a guy called Alfred Marks, he had the Alfred Marks Bureau - he had the same name as a comedian on the radio when I was growing up. So it was just the funny paradox of seeing adverts for the Alfred Marks Bureau, the idea of some comedian having a bureau was just funny. It said 'Temporary Secretary', and I thought, that's a kind of funky thought. Then there was the secretary thing: take a letter Miss Smith, sit on my lap... all that kind of stuff.|Paul McCartney, The Quietus, 2011[4]}}Release"Temporary Secretary" was released as a third single from the album only in a form of 12" single, along with the ten-minute "Secret Friend" as its B-side, limited to 25000 copies and therefore failed to chart.[5] A 7" single exists only as a demo for radio stations. It exemplifies both the whimsical nature of the album and McCartney's use of synthesizers and other electronics in the creation of the album. McCartney claims that he viewed the song as an "experiment."[1] It was never performed live until more than thirty years later at the O2 Arena in London on May 23, 2015.[6] ReceptionMusic website Allmusic.com said of the album, McCartney II: {{cquote|In retrospect, the record is muddled and confused, nowhere more so than on the frazzled sequencing of "Temporary Secretary," where McCartney spits out ridiculous lyrics with a self-consciously atonal melody over gurgling synths. Things rarely get worse than that....[7]}}In contrast, music website popmatters.com said, in reviewing the 2011 reissue of McCartney II: {{cquote|“Temporary Secretary” is a manic, futuristic laser blast with an actual melody simmering underneath. It would be pointless to compare it to anything McCartney had ever done before, and would be equally so to compare it to anyone else as it couldn’t possibly be anyone else. More than any other song on either eponymous album, “Temporary Secretary” illustrates the complex nature of Paul McCartney’s musical output...[8]}}Beatles biographers Roy Carr and Tony Tyler describe the song as being built from an initial, repetitive synthesizer theme, with more substantial instrumental portions added over time, and finally an insubstantial vocal.[9] They complain that the song was done without commitment and that it "grows irritating towards the end."[9]Track listing
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References1. ^1 {{cite book|title=Special Collector's Edition: Paul McCartney|page=91|publisher=Rolling Stone|year=2013|chapter=Paul's 40 Greatest Solo Songs}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nme.com/photos/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-200-101/330881#/photo/38|title=The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time 200-101|date=31 January 2014|publisher=NME.com|accessdate=27 August 2015}} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Badman|first1=Keith|title=The Beatles: The Dream Is Over: Off the Record 2|date=2009|publisher=Omnibus Press|location=London|isbn=978-0-85712-102-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DVWv0OAHBgAC&pg=PT466&lpg=PT466&dq=It%27s+like+a+disposable+secretary,+and+it+struck+me+as+being+funny.+The+song+is+written+from+the+point+of+view+of+a+fellow+who+just+wants+a+disposable+secretary,+and+he%27s+writing+to+a+bureau+to+try+and+get+one.+I+just+like+the+idea.+I+just+thought+it+was+funny,+you+know,+asking+for+a+temporary+secretary+rather+than+a+secretary.+...+That+sound+on+the+track,+which+is+like+a+space+typewriter,+is+a+sequence+machine.+I+used+that+to+give+me+a+tempo+and,+again,+I+just+made+the+song+up+as+I+went+along.+It+was+a+little+influenced+by+Ian+Dury.&source=bl&ots=6Kztu24e5J&sig=t7HOgVbch4g493eYBxfw4_Lg0iE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUnNXXxczQAhUhwVQKHdzsDOMQ6AEIKTAC#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=28 March 2017}} 4. ^{{cite web|last1=Turner|first1=Luke|title=McCartney II: Paul McCartney Interviewed By Other Artists|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/06426-paul-mccartney-interview-2|publisher=The Quietus|date=15 June 2011}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.jpgr.co.uk/r6039.html|title=Temporary Secretary |date=2000 |publisher=JPGR |accessdate=2013-09-25}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://mashable.com/2015/05/25/dave-grohl-acts-like-a-teenager-as-he-joins-paul-mccartney-onstage/|title=Watch Dave Grohl act like a teenager as he joins Paul McCartney onstage |date=2015-05-25 |publisher=Mashable |accessdate=2015-05-28}} 7. ^{{cite web |url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r12654|pure_url=yes}} |title=McCartney II |publisher=allmusic |accessdate=29 August 2009}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/143348-paul-mccartney-mccartneymccartney-ii|title=Paul McCartney: McCartney / McCartney II|last=Kott|first=Crispin|date=2001-06-17|work=PopMatters|publisher=PopMatters Media, Inc., PopMatters Magazine|accessdate=9 July 2011}} 9. ^1 {{cite book|title=The Beatles: An Illustrated Record|author1=Carr, R. |author2=Tyler, T. |lastauthoramp=yes |page=128|year=1981|publisher=Harmony Books|isbn=0517544938}} External links{{Paul McCartney singles}}{{Beatles-song-stub}} 7 : Paul McCartney songs|1980 singles|Songs written by Paul McCartney|Song recordings produced by Paul McCartney|Parlophone singles|Music published by MPL Music Publishing|1980 songs |
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