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#9. Potential Break-up Song
by Aly & AJ


Everything great about this track can be summed up by the lyrics in the bridge: "This is the Potential Breakup Song/ Our album needs just one/ Oh baby please." PBS is winking pop that doesn't skimp on the hook (borrowed from Del Shannon's Runaway) or the emotion. And if its message for teen girls — 'screw you, ex-boyfriend who dumped me' — isn't empowering in any original way, at least it was written by the teenage sisters who sing it.

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