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GET /v2/plays/3644851/?format=api
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    "id": 3644851,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3644851/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-04-21T07:49:51-07:00",
    "show": 66512,
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    "song": "What Are We Gonna Do?",
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    "artist": "Dramarama",
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    "album": "Vinyl",
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    "labels": [],
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    "release_date": "1991-10-15",
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    "comment": "Although tomorrow, April 22nd, is really Earth Day, \"What Are We Gonna Do?\" parodied late-period Beatles pop to cynically skewer the bumper-sticker mentality of all-too-many armchair environmentalists.\n\n\"I still don't think people get it,\" notes John Easdale. \"Environmental people listen to it and thing \"Wow, this guy is really 'Green'!\" It disturbs me to think that there are really people that believe that they're 'spokespersons for a generation.'\nhttps://songmeanings.com/songs/view/16813/",
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}