Sarah Silverman’s Perfect Night Is Perfect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2KYHLLIRYk

Finally, a summer anthem we can all identify with: Sarah Silverman collaborated with Will.i.am on a catchy, auto-tuned synth banger dedicated to the holy ritual of “stay at home, order in, watch a movie and masturbate.” With the glow of the refrigerator replacing the lights of the club and Silverman delivering an unblinking sendup of empty pop-star swagger, the video is a testament to the luxurious, specific joy of staying in and just doing you. Warning that you may feel a sudden, unexpected fondness for Will.i.am when he, getting his verse in via laptop video chat, rhymes “Now she takin’ a bong hit/Now she shavin’ her armpits/Now she lookin for something she wanna watch on Netflix.”

Ann Friedman at The Cut suggests that the central joke of the video — at one point, Silverman sings “I go to YouPorn on my iPhone and I type my search words in: ‘gang,’ ‘amateur,’ ‘cum,’ ‘high-fives’ — draws on one of the last remaining sex taboos for women: masturbation. Apparently women are more likely to admit that they masturbate if they are guaranteed anonymity, and 46.6% of women say that they masturbate less than once a month. Hmm. Thoughts?