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Song Name: Real World
Song Origin: Matchbox Twenty
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwJazZIWNgg" data-time="
Nominator: Dragon66116 (4/15)


An anthropomorphic arctic fox wearing a black cloak like a third-rate Organization XIII cosplayer paces around aimlessly, swishing her tail and twitching her ears.

"Oh, how many years has it been since I took this form? It's always bunnies, ponies, and wolves these days. Not that I often get a chance to use any forms, you know how normals are. You make one reference to your tail, they're just going to freak out. Even most of the furry community start looking at you weird when you can't be bothered to stay with one specific fursona for any length of time. And don't get me started on otherkin and therians..."

Since she hasn't even looked in your direction, you have the distinct impression that she isn't even talking at you anymore, having retreated to a dream world within a dream world in which you probably don't even exist.

"Not that I'm saying I've ever associated with such groups, of course. As for what we're actually here for:

I never knew this band started in the 90s. Since I hadn't really heard any of their songs until a couple years ago, I kinda thought their hits were all...ya know, recent. Which is stupid, of course a song wasn't created at the time I heard it, but I never really thought about it.

I'm sure I've heard this song a few times, but probably not all that many. Unwell & 3 A.M. get a good amount of play on the radio (well, mostly just 3 A.M. these days, now that I think about it), but I can't recall the last time I actually heard this one. It's familiar enough that I definitely have heard it, just, very hard to associate it with a time or place.

As someone who spends as little of her time in reality as possible, I'm obviously drawn to most of the lyrics. Sadly, it kinda deteriorates into a generic love song towards the end with its repeated "please don't change" refrain. It never gets annoying, but it does pull me out of my dream sequence and holds the song back from greatness; I'm here for fantasies and camels in bowling alleys, not generic messages about how your generic love interest is the only thing in your life that works, blah blah blah. I know that's the entire point of the song, but I already have plenty of generic songs with similarly generic messages."

[FINAL NOTES: I didn't intend to start the top 50 with a write-up in which I went full furry, but I guess that's appropriate for me.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: I was going to flip to a different account for this post since it felt odd being a fox in my bunny identity, but... eh, I prefer staying with this account, regardless of what I'm being that day. Not like I insisted Se7en invite my secret wolf account to Games N Things so I could be a wolf over there.]

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