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Rockin' the Suburbs, 2001
Written by Ben Folds
In what at first blush seems like a charming vignette, a couple of teenagers in the 1980s are sitting around. The girl listens to the boy play guitar, and claps at the end. But there's an inner story going on beyond that. Sara (without an h) has visions of the future and hears voices in her head. "The kind of voices she would soon learn to deny / Because at home they got her smacked." She has a vision of techno and electronica, with a bunch of white kids on ecstasy dancing along to acid house. It's like an alternate universe version of the drugged out couple in the Hold Steady's "Chips Ahoy!"
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