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    "comment": "When bassist Tina Weymouth came up with a striking bass line, the band “took that lick and extrapolated it, slowly building a piece around it. After weeks of jamming, David Byrne and producer Brian Eno came in to the studio to start adding arrangements and lyrics to the music pieces.”\nEno counted the rhythm of the song differently than everyone else did, resulting in a distinctive layering of different grooves all at once. On top of this came the lyrics, which Byrne developed as he “sat down and listened to televangelist sermons, pulling phrases from them and crafting them into lyrics.” Put together, “the song creates a trancelike state, capturing the manic monotony of middle-class existence” with both its captivatingly repetitive music (played by the band members acting as “human samplers”) and its words, as Byrne himself interprets them, “about the unconscious, about how we operate half-awake on autopilot.”: https://www.openculture.com/2019/02/how-talking-heads-and-brian-eno-wrote-once-in-a-lifetime.html",
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