Heh! I always thought..."what a bizarre song" when I'd hear McArthur Park. I could see why a singer with a really powerful voice would just love to belt that one out. I found it kind of amusing, but the meaning was crystal clear. Other people seemed to just want to bitch about the "cake in the rain"...as though, hey, THEY were smart enough to figure out that that is a really dumb thing to get dramatic about in a song...a cake melting in the rain...like, duh! that's kinda silly, isn't it?

Well, GOSH, how smart must they be to figure that out!

Whoo-hoo. Impressive.

Musically speaking, the song works. It's superdramatic, so much so that one can't really take it seriously, but it works. It's enjoyable in that sense. It implies a degree of imagination on the part of whoever wrote it. "My Baby Does the Hanky Panky" implies nothing of the sort whatsoever. An idiot could have written that song, and quite possibly did.