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Isn't this everything you hated about the Seventies? There were men with perms in mustard yellow leisure suits, clogs, fondue sets, the AMC Pacer, and ESPECIALLY sappy Seventies love ballads!
The problem is that you secretly like it.
You sold the Pacer years ago, gave the fondue set to Goodwill, threw out the clogs and burned the leisure suit, along with every picture of you with permed hair. But the day you discovered Napster, you downloaded Mandy. Then, you renamed it so nobody would see it.
It's okay. Every other song of the genre may be sappy junk, but Mandy is a genuinely great song. The piano line, the melody, the lyric, and the chorus are all as good as these kinds of songs get, and it deserves its place in the top 100.
I won't tell if you don't.
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