The first time I can remember taking a profound interest in music was probably in the third grade. This was when I first became a fan, bought my own cassettes, and plastered my room with pictures of my favorite group. And who were they? A sort of one-year, four-hot wonder called Ace of Base. Although I can't remember exactly where I was when I first heard Ace of Base, I remember how their music made me feel. It was good dancing music (for my third-grade bopping around that I called dancing), had catchy tunes, and lyrics that made me feel mature ahead of my time. I learned all the lyrics, thought that the lead singer was the most talented vocalist on the planet, and would even write down the lyrics on paper by pausing and rewinding the tapes a thousand times. In a song called "Don't turn around," the singer is talking about leaving her boyfriend in a painful breakup. Being only in the third grade, I felt like a musical connoisseur, so into this "adult" kind of music, with songs about......
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