Youth Of Today

Album: This Is The Life (2007)
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Songfacts®:

  • Amy MacDonald wrote this song when she was 15. She told the Daily Mail January 18, 2008: "Some people don't get the irony in this. It's not supposed to be a call to arms. It's supposed to be funny."
  • This song was chosen by the social networking site Bebo to launch their Free Single Saturday promotion starting June 23 2007.

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  • Herman L from The NetherlandsListen to: original soundtrack "Tales from the loop" from Philip Glass. Made in 2019/2020. It is the same melody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tl0tq97jjo
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