What stuck me about this entire segment is that I think Jimmy and Diddy's "We don't believe what you're singing" critique of Jessica during her mentoring session was deliberately orchestrated so that we the audience would be conditioned into believing what she was singing.

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Mr. KOZELEK: (Singing) We're going down the road to a tiny city that's made of ashes.

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TRANS-GLOBAL UNDERGROUND: (Singing) Looks like we're after Frederick...

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"We're hoping that will get us a nice wave from him and we'll get some people singing along with us, " says McGowan, who served in the Marines from 1964-68, including a tour in Vietnam.

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"We're basically at the very beginning in Sark of looking at singing up to any sort of agreement, " she said.

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Mr. HAMILTON: (Singing) Why must they try to tear down the house we're in, babe?

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Mr. GENE PITNEY (Singer, Songwriter): (Singing) When you're young and so in love as we, and bewildered by the world we see.

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