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ComradeCosmobot posted:Stereolab has the most enthusiastic songs in favor of the communist revolution that I'm surprised no one has mentioned them yet. GODDAMN! This is what I was going to post! I love Stereolab. My contributions: Masta Ace - Take a Walk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOK345zyGc Brother Ali - Uncle Sam Goddamn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syKc9OwvWSw Edwin Starr - War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOLH8WfCaY Electric Six - When I Get To The Green Building https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBmtqoxwqQE And YouTube doesn't have it but N*E*R*D's Drill Sergeant works, too. Thoughts on Jedi Mind Tricks? Edit: Thanks for all the posts, I am getting a bunch of awesome new music today.
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Thanks for the posts, my friends! Here is a rousing video of some Pakistani Trotskyists singing the Internationale: http://vimeo.com/62155560 And here is a catchy tribute to the INLA Freedom Fighters by Ray Collins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=972jLVYvqwM
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# ? Dec 8, 2013 07:09 |
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Laibach's Volk album is full-on DnD. "Volk" means "wolf" in Slovenian, but "people/race" in German (and instantly invokes images of Nazism). The album is a series of soft industrial renderings of the national anthems of exceptionally nationalistic countries, with each featuring a native singer from that country. Highlights: Amerika "Oh, the Land of the Free / and the Home of the Brave / Are you heaven on Earth / or the gloom of the grave?" -- This one's probably the least subtle in its sarcasm. Rossiya "The unbreakable union / of fraternal states / united forever / in Great Russia's embrace" -- from the USSR national anthem. Anglia "So you still believe you're ruling the World / Using all your tricks to keep the picture blurred." Nippon "May the reign of the emperor / continue for a thousand years / and for eternity / until this tiny stone / will grow / into a massive rock / and the moss will cover it /all deep and thick" (accompanied by the sound of wood burning). Yisrael -- a duet between the Israeli and Palestinian national anthems. Bonus points if you can pick out which of the lyrics are from which nation. They're both about the same piece of ground.
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# ? Dec 8, 2013 21:48 |
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Here's my favorite song on I/P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujtsAOvWibY quote:Your borders are bloody mirages
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# ? Dec 8, 2013 22:05 |
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Laibach My favourite Laibach song - B-Mashina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgqjnzkYPnA Such a good song, and awesome apocalyptic sounding lyrics about space travel: quote:Only one day is left
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# ? Dec 8, 2013 22:14 |
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Yeah industrial music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZCPrnmI4d4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxsYrfKf_pc ^ This latter was pretty badly misconstrued. "The Mussolini" is a dance you do while kicking Mussolini's corpse.
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# ? Dec 8, 2013 22:25 |
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Seriously, no Flobots yet? The first two songs I have found to be extremely inspirational when it comes to recruiting others for local social activism, and the last song utilizes Atlantis as metaphor, calling for a dramatic transition away from the corporate system that is leading us to climate destruction to something that will help us deal with what is coming. Bit from the third song: "We float on tsunami to global warming, we need structures to control what's coming. Corporate monopolies, obsolete, the philosophy leaves us lost at sea. But from Marwar to Cochabambaa, we are the warriors that won't get conquered. With the rising tides, drown all villages, divided fighters, succumb to pillage. Rescuers, whatever your latitude, It's time to pioneer a new world attitude. Put local cycles first, we're global islanders with nothing left to plunder. ... And survival hinged on the ascent by the humble. And the sirens wail as the empire crumbles. With nothing to plunder, corporations drowned. Waves clap like thunder, and stormed the gates with sound. Forming a new nation now. As the ice caps melted, water levels rose. We raised our hands together, and made the levies hold. Heels in the sand, we revealed the depths below. The population of starfish exploded from the ocean. Survival, we unified to focus on. And the voices were many, but we spoke as one. As the tale was retold, we multiplied, And swelled across the fault lines, to hold the tide. We let the altars die to keep our pulse alive. And from the barren wastelands of naked trash, we stitched together a shelter from fallen nations' flags. And chose to build the future from an ancient past." Not ashamed to admit it makes me cry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mKM9J3eo30 quote:Echo echo one-nine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-D2xbW1fww quote:So much pain we https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XaLhZbWUqI quote:That was as far as the tide came in.
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# ? Dec 9, 2013 07:13 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCYmZSz9XDE (mildly :NSFW: at a couple points) Topical because lavanguardia.com posted:El cantante de Reincidentes, detenido en el aeropuerto de Miami Detained in Miami by immigration or TSA or whatever for unknown reasons. The band was on its way to Ecuador last week (Friday I think). If I were a non-American and I thought the US might not like me I'd try pretty hard not to transit through US airports. [edit] wow the comments on their last Facebook update read like an LF thread (in Spanish) ... [edit] apparently he was just drunk or something in the airport emfive fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Dec 9, 2013 |
# ? Dec 9, 2013 17:50 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pk0PcvGrDk NIGHT MOTHERFUCKING CREW
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# ? Dec 9, 2013 19:05 |
Some anti-apartheid Christy Moore - Dunnes Stores https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TER_M3KNVCE Sonny Okosun - Fire in Soweto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inCMdSWYKOo Simple Minds - Mandela Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8py3MaTT4Q Hugh Masekela - Bring Back Nelson Mandela https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opUEIVlG1BQ The Specials - Free Nelson Mandela https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgcTvoWjZJU
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# ? Dec 10, 2013 10:26 |
What if you knew - David Rovics There's that frantic, cornered-liberal howl we miss and love from the Bush years. Catchy, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYW6S3hHvrI
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# ? Dec 10, 2013 11:29 |
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I saw this amazing political song from Palestine that crossed a number of boundaries of genre. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? It was very touching, uplifting, and resistance-ey, and had fairly high production values. I think it got deleted from youtube. Smack-dab in the middle there were a bunch of solos, first classical guitar, then electric guitar, then electric oud, and they were all awesome Any ideas?
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# ? Dec 19, 2013 16:00 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uch7nexzpIk Anti-Flag song about Joe Hill, a socialist folk song writer who was convicted of shooting a businessman in Utah in a kangaroo court and executed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MKpRFWHeh0 Some Bad Brains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXCyDanffrw Some anti-fa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBbRSq4W_1o Some Bad Religion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tXGXkhff10 Some Manic Street Preachers
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# ? Dec 19, 2013 20:21 |
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Theme: "It'll be alright..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwyyj9X07sQ Les Porte-mentaux - Ah Ça Ira https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF7eh1E2QzM Barnaked Ladies - Shopping Dishonorable mention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ftyVQM5FE Buncha Tax-Dodging Movement-Appropriating Hacks - Revolution
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# ? Dec 27, 2013 19:51 |
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I've read somewhere that The Butcher's Tale by The Zombies came about because someone was on a history kick and fascinated by World War I. It was released as a single in America to try to capitalize on the growing anti-Vietnam movement, but whether it was really supposed to be an allegory may be a little questionable. It was released in 1967. It's definitely an anti-war song, being the experiences of an enlisted butcher in WWI who's increasingly shellshocked. Meantime, preachers are clamoring for more war, with the double meaning that they are far away from the action and you know, they're supposed to be about peace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMhemzN7sTc
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# ? Dec 27, 2013 20:44 |
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Shocked no one's posted this yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80X0pbCV_t4 quote:What's up with this music?!
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# ? Dec 27, 2013 21:06 |
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Someone already mentioned Dead Prez, couldn't hurt to mention them some more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c_UdWo4Zek They're black socialists along the lines of the Black Panthers. And they produce excellent, excellent music. The Coup also seems somewhat popular around here, even though the group's disbanded Boots Riley is still alive and kicking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGhLQScRElI That's Street Sweepers Social Club, i.e. Boots Riley with Tom Morello of RATM fame. Lowkey was also mentioned previously, him and his friends Akala, Logic/People's Army, and the rest of the GlobalFaction crew is pretty cool as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_xArPvgIjU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB-vYuYhdSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNlL3dyLAyk They rap about race relations, Palestine, and imperialism in general. And in the same vein, here's the Narcicyst, an Iraq-Canadian rapper who isn't too pleased with the way Muslims are treated in western society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtoHCUMpNMY
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# ? Dec 27, 2013 21:27 |
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Let's get some Aus-Rotten posting in here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCUAl8r0KQ0 quote:"Honey, I've made a terrible mistake. I've given you my role. I gave up leading this family, and forced you to take my place. Now I must reclaim my role. I'm not asking you, I'm telling. You must submit for the survival of our family and our culture. Remember, God wants you to." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw0GvsfOAZE quote:don't respect something that has no respect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDPEK0VmxGs quote:Every 45 seconds a woman is raped And as a bonus, here's socialist old-school industrial band Test Dept backing a miner recounting the brutality he faced during the '84 miners' strike. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxhmT05bgnA
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# ? Dec 27, 2013 22:23 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AjgWyxJAGQ Home Brew - LISTEN TO US
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# ? Dec 28, 2013 01:02 |
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^^ I see your Aus-Rotten posting and raise you Rudimentary Peni posting "Dutchmen" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqNIE58so9o Nobody does industrial like zee Germans; Einstürtzende Neubauten: "Autobahn" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZsCvABTX90
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 14:09 |
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Alright then, let's have some SPK! SPK was founded by a pair of mental health workers who were inspired by the manifestos of the Socialist Patients' Collective and put out some really great industrial music before getting a record contract and switching to making fairly generic dance music. Their releases generally came with what we'd now consider zines full of writing on the politics of mental illness and mind control. A ton of them are archived here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8f2lwMIMAE
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 15:15 |
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More Aus Rotten - Modern Day Witch Hunt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hxw8QqSIvs Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon - Will the Fetus Be Aborted? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD0djqbR04I
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 17:11 |
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flatbus posted:The Coup also seems somewhat popular around here, even though the group's disbanded Boots Riley is still alive and kicking: The coup hasn't disbanded though, or is that something really recent? I was part of their opening act in the Netherlands half a year ago when they were touring in Europe Any Mick'll do - Dick Gaughan & Brian MacNeill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAArSOvdcZo Has these great lyrics, among others: I hate every Jew who kicks a Palestinian And every Nazi that ever kicked a Jew I hate every stupid bigoted opinion and if you don't hate them too, then I hate you!
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 17:48 |
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ekuNNN posted:The coup hasn't disbanded though, or is that something really recent? I was part of their opening act in the Netherlands half a year ago when they were touring in Europe Hah, that is really good news. Somehow I had it in my head that Pam the Funktress left and Boots went with Street Sweepers for good. Just looked it up and it seems I was entirely delusional.
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 17:51 |
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flatbus posted:Hah, that is really good news. Somehow I had it in my head that Pam the Funktress left and Boots went with Street Sweepers for good. Just looked it up and it seems I was entirely delusional. Ah yeah, Boots said that Pam doesn't like to go on tour, so she didn't come with them to Europe. Maybe that's where you got the idea from. Swamp Dogg - I was born blue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80keKYVUsvM
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 18:14 |
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Happy New Year from iu640, DND!Joe Hill through Utah Phillips posted:There is pow'r, there is pow'r / in a band of working folk / when we stand hand in hand. / Fake Edit: Dump the bosses off your back!
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# ? Jan 1, 2014 10:47 |
I thought this one had been posted already; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7UN04dHYII In ale gasn / Hey, hey, daloy politsey (down with the police) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYMXV1vFxQQ A Bas l'Etat Policier (down with the police state)
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# ? Jan 1, 2014 12:42 |
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The seminal avant-rock band This Heat were always politically charged, and they were clearly familiar with the Marxist theoretical tradition, what with their depictions of false consciousness and such. I'd like to think that they'd be *just* experimental enough to be OK with Adorno, but I dunno; Adorno was kinda bitchy like that. "Sleep": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x76gLBWPhfM quote:You are now in a deep sleep "Shrink Wrap": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0ySaCs-zJk quote:shrinkwrap, you lie, you lie, you lie This last one doesn't have any lyrics, but it blows my mind every time. 1978(!!!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPo9m0naJxM
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# ? Jan 1, 2014 14:08 |
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Henry Cow were cool super serious british marxists who set out to make challenging, uncommercial music, and they did cool things like 15 minute epics about the class struggle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxkDtA711aA They later got together with some other similar minded bands from continental europe and formed the Rock in Opposition movement(RIO). Later Henry Cow broke up but some of the members formed another band called Art Bears who were even more political: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPoTsVwvO4E
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# ? Jan 2, 2014 00:05 |
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So I'm not even Russian and have no sympathies for the country, but I've still been watching this for about a week or so now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLjSu9U1lEU The link leads to a fairly good rendition of the Russian national anthem (the best anthem, I have to concede even as a Finn) accompanied with a lot of cool stuff from the history of Russia. The rundown of rulers/politicians near the end kind of makes it clear that Putin and his ilk are pretty much just a natural continuation of what Russia has had throughout its centuries. It's not all politics by a long shot, there's a lot of movie clips, sports etc. in there too.
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# ? Jan 2, 2014 01:33 |
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I'll contribute with some local metal. Rody, lead vocalist posted:I’m a big believer that the justice system in North America is failing rape victims, and I think that a lot of people are denying rape culture, but it’s drat time that we started acknowledging that it’s real. We shouldn’t be willing to accept poo poo like Daniel Tosh getting up on stage and making a bunch of shittty rape jokes, because that just contributes to rape culture, and to victim shaming, and you see it on your favourite sitcoms and you think, “oh, but they’re just making jokes about it: and you know what, it’s loving real, and that’s contributing to it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wu1HuMhEk8
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# ? Jan 2, 2014 03:01 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgVZSIPzH1o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTBo87fSN6g The lyrics are in the videos. They're too long to quote without making this post annoying to scroll past. I'm not usually into rap but I love this album. Pretty much every song from it could fit this thread. Bear Retrieval Unit fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Jan 3, 2014 |
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Because LF introduced me to Math Rock in general and the loving awesomeness that is Hella, I feel like I should share the wealth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CuCa1uItjM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U15uIa3ynEw Hella is amazing because, even though their music is nearly all instrumental (There's No 666 in Outer Space has full vocals and a 5 person band, and it's incredible) their music, to me, kind of boils down America in our time. It's this brilliant kind of controlled chaos, like Zach Hill's drumming is about to abandon all rhythm at any moment and break down into a cascade of noise (which it sometimes does). I don't know, what they do is similar, in my mind, to what the Beach Boys and Kraftwerk did for their respective times and places. Just a beautiful, chaotic explosion of intense music that gives a perfect sonic description of our society.
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# ? Jan 3, 2014 03:12 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1TJd4TyXAs Atari Teenage Riot's Hetzjagd auf Nazis, which translates to 'Hound (as in the hunting) the Nazis'
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# ? Jan 3, 2014 17:35 |
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Antwan3K posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1TJd4TyXAs While we're posting Atari teenage riot, I love this video of their performance during a 1999 Berlin May day protest where there is a full riot around their mobile stage and they get arrested at the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ab7Dksqfnw ekuNNN fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Jan 3, 2014 |
# ? Jan 3, 2014 19:15 |
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Rap song about Abortion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-GnMWoW2FE quote:Gotta be the prophet, priest, provider, protector of
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# ? Jan 14, 2014 01:27 |
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Rap song about Abortion Antidote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JvtctAsmGg
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# ? Jan 14, 2014 19:49 |
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There is good punk and hip hop and protest music in this thread. What there is not, so far though, is anything by Manu Chao. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSEUH4KRfN8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zZ1bxr1u04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZivK8PmxPWQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSIxdguQbTI What's terrible is that topical music can never be a popular thing in America.
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Eh, I don't know about that, Tupac's Changes was what got me into hip hop when I was a kid, and they played that video on MTV the entire summer.
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# ? Jan 14, 2014 21:03 |