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You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music Highlight

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But in streaming music, the faraway cities are right here among us. You can cross into another culture in an instant, in every instant. One of my favorite hip hop songs is a ten-minute rap battle between League of Legends video-game characters, called 'This Is War 7'. I have never played this game. I did not have any idea who the characters were before listening to the song, and I still basically don’t after hearing it many times. I didn’t listen to the other six 'This Is War's first, and yes there most definitely are 1-6. I understand the individual words in this song, and many of the sentences, but none of the paragraphs. What I like, though, isn’t knowing what they’re saying, it’s hearing it.

— Glenn McDonald

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