Ten years, 100 songs, three minutes. Sheer. Fucking. Genius. Watch it before a Youtube copyright enforcement bot deletes it and DJ Earworm's channel with it. (via Metafilter)
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Nov 19, 2019
DJ Earworm: 100 songs from the past decade in one mashup
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