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Watch: Comedian Kunal Rao laments the lack of a poetic sense in modern songwriters

He makes his point by comparing Jim Morrison’s and Taylor Swift’s ‘break-up lyrics’.

Scroll Staff
Dec 13, 2019 · 11:19 am
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