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Fake Bands, Real Songs: The Best Tunes by Made-Up Musicians

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Bashir With the Good Beard

Number 19 is from a show that I'm not familiar with, but the song is great. There's sort of a tradition in these kinds of movies and shows where it's like you see a song basically being improvised on the spot and it immediately sounds ready to be played on the radio. Number 20 is by the fake boy band Fortown in the really great Pixar movie, Turning Red. Are the lyrics to this really dumber than Love and Elevator? I'm not sure.

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