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Sixty-six people died as a fire swallowed the club whole. They’d assembled to watch a band called Burn.

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Let me tell you something that can easily be applied to 99 percent of everything that 99 percent of everyone does: Nobody cares.

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“Kiss The Rain” by Billie Myers

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3. What 9/11 is.

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Dance music was never supposed to become the sonic equivalent of sitting in a dryer for an hour. It was never supposed to be this monotonous, either.

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I exposed those needy cravings unabashedly and without censor – straight from the knuckle-dragging frat boy Id that inhabits each of us.

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Paris broke the rules sexually. She wore lingerie to clubs, she was romantically linked with everybody. She had a sex tape. They were taboos that were ready to be broken.

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After all, that’s what’s oddly inspiring about Fred Durst’s lyrics — you could have written them, but you didn’t. It’s like patting yourself on the back for not crapping your pants.

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2000-2004. My high school years. They also coincided with the release of some of the most embarrassing awesome!! rock music of my lifetime.