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" ... Baby One More Time"—Britney Spears

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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The New Kids' Performance of Games

Games is a spunky and bare knuckled little tune about how the new kids are through playing games with all the jealous no good knuckleheads who've been trying to keep them down. For whatever reason I had videotaped on our VCR the 1991 American music awards and I watched just this performance of games over and over and over you got to rewind the VHS tape. The glorious process not really but I was fascinated This is easily the new kids song that I've spent the most time with I'm a 12 year old knucklehead by now. So that's where sublime got it games comes from.

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