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    "id": 3636447,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3636447/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-04-01T13:05:31-07:00",
    "show": 66338,
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    "song": "Talking About a Revolution",
    "track_id": "c62f8cf7-6835-3847-aadd-bc8740da6a62",
    "recording_id": "fd3158d6-a604-4726-93aa-5faad140907b",
    "artist": "Tracy Chapman",
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    "album": "Tracy Chapman",
    "release_id": "b784d37a-aeb9-30b1-9f60-43adc7d1331a",
    "release_group_id": "a738bdf1-f610-30aa-9ae7-9a4f90d6f2d7",
    "labels": [
        "Elektra"
    ],
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    ],
    "release_date": "1988-01-01",
    "rotation_status": "Library",
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    "comment": "Chapman wrote this song when she was 16 and a student at Wooster, a boarding school in Danbury, Connecticut. She grew up in Cleveland but ended up at Wooster because she landed a scholarship. She grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so Chapman wasn't used to this privileged class and the transition was difficult.\n\n\"I found that people at the school didn't really have that much interest,\" she said in 1986. \"I was really angry about that, and that's where the song 'Talkin' 'Bout A Revolution' came from. Meaning that a lot of them thought that. They didn't think that people's lives - people who didn't have money or who were working class - their lives weren't very significant and they also somehow couldn't make a change. But I feel that's where change comes from, that's where people are in most need.\"\n--\nWatch an interview with Chapman about this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELos5H2pYXM",
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}