Today's bad tune from random
Selena, “I Could Fall in Love with You” from her album “Dreaming of You”. One thing about the auto playlists that Yahoo creates is that they sometime throw weird shit in there. Somehow Selena came in with a playlist of artists “Like U2”. Ummmmm, No.
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