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Ben Folds

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

CHAPTER

The Problem With Being Cool

The reason that song did so well, especially in places like the UK where it charted in the top 40 or the top 10 as a radio hit, is because no one felt cool. "I was terminally frustrated and insulted by the universe," Benfolds says of his early career. The band sold about 40,000 records back in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Kurt Cobain was a big fan.

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