If you are a hot German chick and you sing about nuclear war, you are Nena.

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"You sing about those things that surround you, " she said.

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If you sing about gay sex and nuclear war, you are Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

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Like, it's too violent, can't you just sing about what's happening without having all these people running in the street and looking this way?

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If you have a first meeting with an advisor, from my perspective, that should have very little to do with anything but you as the client, who you are, what you care about, what makes your heart sing, what your objectives are.

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He always wondered why his grandmother pounced on him when he joked about getting sent to Sing Sing for bad behavior, scolding him, "Don't you dare use those words in front of your grandfather!"

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His feelings for his parents also emerge in songs like "123 Goodbye, " which includes the line "I love you more in death than I ever could in life, " though Perkins prefers to sing about these thoughts rather than talk about them.

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