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Matthew Sweet on Mars

Sylvie Simmons, Rolling Stone (Germany), 1997

MATTHEW SWEET is proud to be Pop. It wasn’t always that way. "It used to be that I was afraid of Pop", says Sweet, earnestly. "It was dangerous. Pop was wimpy, Pop was Mariah Carey, Pop was Top 40.

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