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Ben Folds Fooled You

Aug 14, 2008, 10:10am stereogum
Ben Folds Fooled You When we posted a YouTube stream of " You Don't Know Me ," Ben Folds's duet with Regina Spektor, we also linked to a paragraph at Wikipedia that mentioned the "leaked" version of Way To Normal floating around could, in fact, be "an elaborate joke" by Ben himself. This has now been confirmed by Folds in an interview with Rolling Stone . Six of the songs you heard aren't real. Well, they exist, but they aren't on the actual record. Unfortunately, " Hiroshima " wasn't part of the gag:
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