The Nasty Set (I Ain't a Gothic Heroine/Boys of Blue Hill) - NSFW
By Paisleyfrog on July 5, 2026 5:41 pm
Let's do some Irish trad! But like, obscene.
I was sort of stuck for what to use for cover art this week...and then Dr Frog gestured at the wall behind me. Oh yeah! Let's just take a pic of the instruments I used this week. Tenor banjo, bodhran, bones, pennywhistle, guitar (FrankenGuitar) and upright bass (Ol' #12!). My MIDI and synths and noise are getting lonely. Soon, my precious...
So, neon liminal is partially to blame(?) for this track, waaaaay back in week 8. From my post on Nasty (paraphrasing a bit):
I mean... its a great frigging track...BUT...
You can and have been much, much, much filthier and disgusting and more nasty.
I challenge ye hence to deliver me atrocious levels of filth...
To which the response was:
CHALLENGE FUCKING ACCEPTED. I can yea verily feel the gauntlet wherens't it hath been flung across my face forthwith.
Although we had thought we would swap Nasty challenges back in April. Sometimes Life hates making music. 
What makes this particularly funny is the somewhat bardic nature of my reply is in contrast to the expected sleazy rock we were going to do....but it rather fits with the tracks the Dr and I have been doing lately. This rather has a sense of humor, nasty with a wink and a nudge.
This song has been living in our lyrics book for about six years. The song is a co-write, but the melody and lyrics are primarily Doctor Frog's. Let's let her talk about it!
This song was inspired by a collaborative writing session sometime around 2020. Bridgerton had just come out, and it was sweeping the country with Regency era romance. You know, society drama, social pining, and marriage as the goal. As we were pinging topics back and forth, the idea of writing about an anti-heroine using (very) old euphemisms for sex came up. We were laughing hysterically about the phrases that surfaced in our searching (see “grope for trout in hidden streams”), and a song tumbled out.Fast forward to this summer where I actually have time to write music with Paisleyfrog. We talked about collaborating on some trad music, a favorite of both of us. As we were thinking about last week’s offering, I remembered this week’s lyrics (yes, I do keep everything organized so I can find our past work). A quick hunt in the lyrics document, a bouncy melody, and a raunchy sing later, and this song came to life.
This piece uses a common trad strategy of offering two songs in one, usually with the second song as the instrumental interlude. “I Ain’t No Gothic Heroine” combines with “Boys of Blue Hill” to make “The Nasty Set.” The congruence in the song title is a lovely irony!
We hope you enjoy this ribald and unapologetically sexual romp.
Sometimes a song needs to wait until the right moment to come out, and this year's Weekly Beats with all the Early Music we've been working on was exactly the right time
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