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EXERCISES IN WRITER TORTURE

This Is What Happens When You Loop the Billboard Top 10 for 10 Straight Hours

By Rembert Browne at

There are only three reasons to listen to the Billboard Top 10 on a continuous loop for 10 hours:

    1. You're 13 years old.
    2. You love pop music.
    3. You're a masochist.

Options 2 and 3 would apply to me. I'm not the type of masochist who locks himself in a room and blasts these 10 songs on a loop because he has nothing else to do but listen and cry. I'm the type who has the entire music library at his disposal, but decides to spend his long workday blasting the 10 most popular songs in America into his ears. That's me. The songs:

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