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“My Girls”

Animal Collective | 2009

During the course of the song, writer and singer Noah Lennox, a.k.a. Panda Bear, covets "a proper house," "four walls and adobe slats for my girls" and eschews fancy things, values which were culled from his personal life. "It was really just my desire on a basic level to own my own place and kind of provide a safe house for my family and the people I care about," Lennox said. "I thought that was at once a kind of weird materialistic thing but at the same time a noble thing."

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“Youth Knows No Pain”

Lykke Li | 2011

“Like on 'Youth Knows No Pain' — we are the ones that should demonstrate, because we can take it,” Likke Li said. “We can pierce ourselves, take Ecstasy, dance all night and still go to work at our McDonald's jobs.” Despite the hedonistic sentiment in the song, the Swedish singer also admitted in hindsight her youth had repercussions. “I remember when I was 18-19 and feeling that I know it all,” Li said. “I always feel that I know it all. But that song is about realizing you don’t, and reflecting, ‘Boy, if I only knew what would follow.’”

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