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EVANESCENCE – "Bring Me To Life"
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Popular: #955, 14th June 2003
— 19 January 2020 Tom 29 comments

Corporate rock, a vignette: the label wanted Evanescence to add a male co-vocalist all through their debut album. The band said no, and so a compromise was met – Amy Lee would be joined by a growly dude only on this first single. (more…)[…]

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R. KELLY – "Ignition (Remix)"
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Popular: #954, 17th May 2003
— 4 January 2020 Tom 76 comments

So here we are. In 2014, when I wrote the entry for “I Believe I Can Fly”, acknowledging the monstrousness of R Kelly, I had plans to make this piece some sort of grand follow-up. Here is a song that – when I started Popular – was the[…]

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