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The Opposition Between the Music and the Lyrics

There are often times the lyrics can be very dark and the music's very upbeat. And I think that's a, what's interesting is that's a contrast between them and REM because REM, even though they're written, the lyrics and the, and the music are written totally separately. Michael Stipe would always try to mirror the tone of the music. He's like, you wrote me a stupid sentimental song. So I'm going to write stupid set of that allurex to match your music. But I think they don't do that. It's because they do it all together. They really have that. That's part of this idea that the enjoyment is always located elsewhere in

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