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The Second Verse: How the Comeback Story Gets Retold
Rock's most rebooted careers are less a record of events than a plot structure the media keeps reaching for.

Rock's most rebooted careers are less a record of events than a plot structure the media keeps reaching for.

Three narrative tools borrowed from prose, and how each one earns its keep in a lyric.

Repetition is not filler in a score or a chorus. It is the mechanism that turns sound into expectation, and expectation into emotion.