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Why Journey IS the Music of Peak Individualism in America

Why Journey IS the Music of Peak Individualism in America

a super serious essay Rolling Stone will never publish

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I don't know which assertion is more dubious: locating the peak of American individualism in the early 1980s OR that the rock band Journey is the lyrical soul of this peak. Hmmm.

I have a hell of a lot of explaining to do for assaulting you with this clickbait title. So, here I go. [I listened exclusively to Journey's Greatest Hits while writing this ess…

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