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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-23T15:56:14.000Z",
  "site": "https://defector.com",
  "tags": [
    "Blogs Of Note",
    "Listening Habits",
    "Music",
    "drake",
    "geese",
    "Online Media",
    "the rock critic industrial complex",
    "Good Charlotte",
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  "textContent": "_Welcome to**** Listening Habits_,_a column where I share the music and musical topics I’ve been fixated on recently._\n\nThe first time I ever noticed that I was being sold to by the shadowy music industry in a way that didn't feel genuine to me was with the arrival of a little superstar known as Avril Lavigne. She was the \"anti-Britney.\" She was crass and rude and punk. She wore a white tank top and cargo pants instead of tight spandex. She had Attitude™️. It was a particularly cynical way to sell a new pop star, but these were particularly cynical times, and treating teenagers like they're dumb is an effective marketing tactic. But once I knew enough about music and the music business to pick up the signs of artificiality, I could see them everywhere: in the phony rebellion of Good Charlotte to the fake cool of Bow Wow. I didn't have a word for it when I was a kid, but I was trying to identify what became known as The Industry Plant©️.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/5NPBIwQyPWE?si=gFnQVP2oYNbeCZTO",
  "title": "All That Matters Is That It Bangs"
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