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Music should always be polarizing. What one person likes, somebody else hates. And I hate that kind of snobbery in pop music. The fact that so many people are getting upset over this one song is hysterical. And if people like it, that's great.

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Simon Cowell
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 7
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