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This song’s video was the last winner of the “Best Post-Modern Video” award at the VMAs. Wendy & Lisa accompanied a performance of this song at the 2024 Grammys that ended with Annie Lennox shouting “Artists for ceasefire!” This song was originally recorded by the Family and describes a doctor that tells the performer of this song that (*) “you better try to have fun no matter what you do”. A music video for this lead single from I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got mostly consists of closeups of its turtleneck-clad singer with her head shaved. A singer laments “I go out every night and sleep all day / Since you took your love away” in this song. For 10 points, the line “it’s been seven hours and fifteen days” opens what song popularized by Sinéad (“shih-NADE”) O'Connor? ■END■ (0[2])

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