Or, how a Nickelodeon reference can depress the crap out of you while still being couched in an experimental-ish club banger.
Author: John Maher
John Maher is news and digital editor at Publishers Weekly and editor in chief at The Dot and Line, which he co-founded. His work has been published by New York magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and Esquire, among others.
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