Here is Billy with today's song "Defamed": I've got a couple of nieces that are going into middle school and high school, that kind of age, in the beginning I was thinking about this album, the charge for it, initially, was that time, going into the 7th and 8th grade, you come out of elementary school and coming into a new city of sorts. The school I went to was pretty big, like 600 people in each class. And then you come into this place, like whoa, this is like adults almost. But then there is the clique thing, the popular kid in school to the people kissing the ass of the popular one, and they prop that popular kid up on a pedestal. And then, you're doomed to fail. Or whether it's working with rock stars that I've worked with over the years and seeing people on the peripheral that they expect or want something from them that they can never give. Then they expect people to have that relationship and keep wanting that. You know, it's a destructive path either way, whether its politics to the entertainment business to the catty school mentality that you go through when you're a teenager.

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