“Jeremy” by Pearl Jam Mental health phenomena addressed: bullying/school shootings. Key lyric: “clearly I remember, picking on the boy, seemed a harmless little fuck” “Jeremy”
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9 Songs That Want It Both Ways (And Which Ones Pull It Off)
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The 1 Thing I Learned from Weezer, and the 1 Thing I Should Have
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Sad Is Not Only Specific
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Is America Really a Third World Country in a Gucci Belt?
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The Shared Universe of Springsteen’s Nebraska
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10 Songs That Describe 10 Aspects of Adulthood
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No One Is Talking About 2020 Like Tracy Chapman Did in 1988
And An Argument for Her Overall Underratedness “Don’t you know? Talking about a revolution sounds, like a whisper” “Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution”, Tracy Chapman, 1988