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Old 06-06-2009, 07:59 PM   #63 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Rickenbacker View Post
Oh, I'm not speaking of lyrics. Rather, song structure. Stand and Shiny Happy People are composed like very basic pop songs, radio staples in the late eighties and early nineties.

Also, I always thought Shiny Happy People was about the Tiananmen Square massacre. Something about the press release that the chinese gave and how it was mistranslated.
Haha I posted this just a minute after you
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