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| The 10-13 demographic is ripe for indoctrination; indeed, a group of children all hearing the same song, often responding to it emotionally, is practically an ideal situation. If “The Call” had a chorus that ran “Our glorious Chairman Mao/has got it goin’ on,” we’d all be smelting our coins into bullets even as I speak, and if there were Satanic messages hidden under the multi-layered meringue of its production, the End of All Songs would doubtless be nearer than ever. “The Call,” however, is neither a call to arms for the young revolutionaries nor an invocation of the dark lord. But close scrutiny of the song, which practically every twelve-year-old in the country could sing for you from beginning to end, reveals...what, exactly? | |
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