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Sure, there was the speculative fervor that caused shares of companies like Pets.com, Kozmo.com, and even BN.com, the online business of Barnes & Noble, to pop.

“I had so much metal inside me, I thought I wouldn’t need a burial when I died—the undertaker could just pop me in the recycling bin,” he quips in “Last Rites.”

On the eve of her induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the 72-year-old pop icon looks back.

As Taylor Swift’s latest record brings scrutiny to the construction and thematics of pop music and its presentation, Wolf Alice’s seductive sway and wistful grit feels comparatively effortless, even if it’s just as accessible.

Out pops the tongue—or, in this case, out pops a New York Times column uncritically linking the pathos of the Screen Actors Guild to the AI doom coming for all of humanity.