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    "comment": "If this sounds like vintage R.E.M., it's because the band really did imitate life when they accidentally took the verse chords from 1985's \"Driver 8\" and used them in this song.\n\nCheck out the incredibly unique video for this song, filmed using 12 Super 8 cameras, whose shots were subsequently merged to create one collective 20-second clip: https://tinyurl.com/yvfx62wz \n\nThe song title is taken from the classic 1959 film of the same name. Directed by Douglas Sirk, the movie (a remake of the 1939 version starring Claudette Colbert) follows a young African-American girl's struggle as she abandons her mother so she can pass as white in the '50s south. \"I thought at the time that the title was a perfect metaphor for adolescence. Unfortunately I have come to believe that it is a perfect metaphor for adulthood, too. But that's another story,\" Peter Buck explained.",
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