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- It's not just, she's talking
about the pain of adolescence

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and the pain of feeling
like an ugly duckling

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and the pain of not being
in the in crowd or whatever,

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it's also about being
the tall, blonde,

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blue-eyed cheerleader.

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♪ Remember those
who win the game ♪

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♪ Lose the love they
sought to gain ♪

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- I was the
cheerleader. (laughs)

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I was the girl that Janis
sang about in "At Seventeen."

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I was a good girl who
was dating the bad boy.

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♪ Their small town
eyes will gape at you ♪

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♪ In dull surprise
when payment due ♪

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- And I don't care if you're
super handsome, beautiful,

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of you're smart or
you're you're dumb.

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Everybody feels like a piece
of [bleep] in some kinda way.

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- I was a very
weirdo kid growing up

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in the eighties and
nineties in the Midwest,

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and all of my peers were
listening to Nirvana

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and Guns N' Roses, and
I, for some reason,

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was this little sad closeted kid

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who was listening to
Joan Baez and Phil Ochs

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and Janis Ian by
candlelight. (laughs)

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The line that always
made me laugh,

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because if we didn't
laugh, we would almost cry,

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was the line, "To those
whose names were never called

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when choosing sides
for basketball."

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♪ And those whose names
were never called ♪

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♪ When choosing sides
for basketball ♪

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- I was never picked,
(laughs) any sports team.

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♪ When dreams were all
they gave for free ♪

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♪ To ugly duckling
girls like me ♪

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- I mean, I was that ugly
duckling girl, (laughs)

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and so the song
hit me pretty hard.

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♪ Inventing lovers
on the phone ♪

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- The fact that Janis
had such a huge hit

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and such an iconic
impact with that song,

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I think, speaks to its
universal relevance.

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(audience clapping)