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My Favorite Disaster

A loving roast of the hot-mess best friend — Monday diets, Gerald the dying houseplant — and "you're my favorite disaster."

Best Friend → Best FriendHer 33rdUpbeat Comedy PopFemale Vocals

My Favorite Disaster

Maddie...
Thirty-three today, and still a beautiful disaster.
You're forty minutes late to your own birthday. Obviously.
I wouldn't change a single chaotic thing.
Happy birthday, you menace.

[Verse]
You start a diet every Monday, quit by lunch
Nine streaming logins just to watch the same three shows
A houseplant named Gerald you forgot to water
But every bad week of mine ends up on your couch

[Chorus]
Maddie, you're thirty-three
And still a glorious wreck
You're late, you're loud, you're a category-five mess —
And you're my favorite disaster
(happy birthday, Maddie)

[Verse]
You make the worst decisions with the most confidence
You cry at ads, you fight the parking app
You give the best advice you never take yourself
And you'd show up for me in a heartbeat, every time

[Bridge]
Everybody needs one friend who's a beautiful catastrophe
I'd bail you out at three a.m., no questions asked
And mine just happens to be my favorite person

[Final Chorus]
Maddie, here's to thirty-three
And still a glorious wreck
You're late, you're loud, the best thing in the room —
And you're my favorite disaster
(happy birthday, Maddie)

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