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    "comment": "The whole song hinges on a Carl's Jr. ad — yes, the burger chain. Gerald Casale, DEVO's bassist and the lyricist on this track, was struck by a commercial that touted \"freedom of choice\" while showing four nearly identical hamburgers. That's the whole conceit: a country mistaking mindless consumer options for actual freedom. Casale layered in an Aesop's fable too — the dog crossing a bridge with a bone, who sees another dog with a bone in the water below, attacks it, and loses what he already had.\n\nhttps://faroutmagazine.co.uk/story-behind-devo-song-freedom-of-choice/\nhttps://clubdevo.com/",
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