YMMV / McCartney II

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Is the narrator of "Temporary Secretary" really looking for a secretary, or is he discreetly asking for the services of a prostitute (perhaps to do boss/secretary roleplaying with him)?
• Americans Hate Tingle: While the two main singles from the album, "Coming Up" and "Waterfalls", were both big hits internationally (including both making the Top 10 in the UK) neither one clicked with American audiences. In the case of "Coming Up", Columbia Records elected to promote the live version on the B-Side over the studio version, without McCartney's knowledge, and it became a #1 hit. "Waterfalls", however, became his first post-Beatles single either under his own name or the Wings banner to not make the Billboard Hot 100, languishing in the Bubbling Under chart for a single week.
• Memetic Mutation: "Temporary Secretary" had two moments of fame on the internet:
  • It was first mentioned by Rocco Botte of Mega64 fame, talking on their podcast about how he loves the song and wishes he could see Paul play it live, urging his fans to tweet about it (and Paul did play it live in May 2015 in the end). He has also made a series of brief vlogs about how he kept hearing the song while going at restaurants across different US states over the years.
  • The song is also known in the SilvaGunner community as "Jerry Temporary". This comes from a comment in which someone replied to an user called "AGuyNamed Jerry" (who was asking what was the name of the song) with the message "AGuyNamed Jerry Temporary Secretary". It was then mistaken as "Jerry Temporary" on other comments and the Silva Gunner team adopted this name as a recurring joke.
• So Bad, It's Good: "Temporary Secretary", again. Creepy lyrics, obnoxiously shrill vocals, and a bizarre beat that sounds like McCartney was hitting random notes on the synthetizer. It's certainly one of the album's more memorable tracks, if nothing else, and has received some sincere retrospective praise for the simple fact that it sounds like almost nothing else.
• Values Dissonance: The title of "Frozen Jap" went without issue in the UK, but attracted sizable controversy in Japan due to the word being considered an anti-Japanese slur outside Britain. As McCartney had recently been arrested in Tokyo for marijuana possession, Japanese audiences interpreted the title as a mocking reference to the incident.
• Vindicated by History: Dismissed by critics in 1980 as trivial and weird, the album has since become a Cult Classic, recognized as an early attempt to merge Electronic Music with mainstream pop, as well as prefiguring movements like lo-fi and Indie Pop.

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