The World Since 1982

May 2025
1min read

I have seen recordings of MTV from ten years ago (when it first started out) and none of them have lyrics that imply that drugs, sex, and killing are cool, as many popular songs do today. Our music has really contributed in changing young America into what it has become.

— Ryan Agee

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