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Thank You For The Music, Sleater-kinney. This Gang Of Three Was The Best American Punk Rock Band Ever. Ever.

Rock Stars Did Not Invent Burning Out. They Just Do It Louder.

When Ke$ha Tries To Rap Like L'trimm, She Sounds Like Any Ordinary Lonely Teenage Girl Stuck In A Nowhere Town, Singing Along To Her Radio And Dreaming Of A Party Where She's The Star. Ke$ha's Greatness Is That In Her Voice, You Can Hear Both The Loser Girl And The Star. All Hail The Queen Of Noi$e!

One Of The Best Moments Of Any Liars Show Is Hearing The Crowd Squawk 'we're Doomed! We're Doomed!' On Cue During 'we Fenced Other Houses With The Bones Of Our Own.' Maybe Not The Most Uplifting Audience Sing-along In The Indie Rock World, But One Of The Most Reliably Entertaining.

Like Many Other Touchstones Of Twenty-first-century Pop Culture, 'the Sopranos' Was Hatched In The Late Nineties, Predicting A Future That Never Arrived. It Was Designed For A Decade That Would Be Just Like The Nineties, Except More So, In An America That Enjoyed Seeing Itself As Smarter And Braver And Freer Than Ever Before.