n! This isn’t on your playlist, is it? A "playlist" is the list of songs that a disc jockey will play on their radio station. I’ve been doing some stuff for a local underground paper. Note that "stuff" is a very general word for things, and this case refers to pieces of writing. Here, an "underground" paper is a slangy way of referring to a paper that has very few readers, and not one that is necessarily hiding from the government! You’ll meet them all again...on their long journey to the middle. This is Lester’s way of saying that most rock stars (and critics) move to the middle of the road artistically, in order to try to get as popular as possible. Your writing is damn good. A common and colloquial way of saying very. Rock’n’roll? It’s over. You got here just in time for the death rattle. Last grasp. Last grope. Lester’s way of saying that rock music has been so commercialized by big business that it’s now dying. The "death rattle" is the sound that a rattle snake or other animal makes just before it dies. A "grasp" is a desperate attempt to reach (as in "a last grasp for air"), and a "grope" is to reach out blindly, or with no specific goal. I used to do speed. I’d stay up all night writing and writing, like 25 pages of dribble. "Speed" is an illegal drug that gives people lots of energy, but can make them a little crazy. "Dribble" is the spit or saliva that comes out of a person’s mouth when they’re sleeping, but it also refers to bad writing. They’re gonna be fake friends. They’re gonna try to corrupt you. "Fake" is not real, and thus a "fake" friend is a person who is pretending to be your friend, but who really is just using you. "To corrupt" a person is to try and lead them away from their own principles or values, often turning them into criminals. Fucking nothing about you that is controversial, man. Note the use of "fucking" as a totally empty filler word. Vulgar, but common among young people. If something is "controversial," it causes much emotion, argument or disagreement. The word "man" is often used as a filler word to express general emotion. Widely used among teenagers, but basically meaningless. There are people who want you to write sanctimonious stories about the genius of rock stars... A good word to describe something that is too serious or even religious or righteous in attitude. ...and they’ll ruin rock’n’roll and strangle everything we love about it, right? To "ruin" something is to kill or destroy it. "To strangle" something is to choke it, or kill it by cutting off its air. And then it just becomes an industry of cool. This is Lester’s way of saying the rock music is being destroyed by record companies that are just trying to promote rock stars that look cool to young peo
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