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“It All Means Nothing”

Screaming Females | 2011

For "All Means Nothing" Screaming Females shredder frontwoman Marissa Paternoster plumbed her punk nihilism: "The song is about the fear of no future in a world that seems to be rapidly collapsing," she told Rolling Stone.  "I suppose the song is also a lot about gathering enough inner strength to push through that fear and move forward in a threatening environment." Though it was their fifth album, it was their first recorded in a proper studio—Steve Albini's Electrical Audio; the band chose to work with the fabled engineer because of his work with PJ Harvey.

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“Too Close”

Next | 1998

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'" 

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