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* When [[Giuseppe Verdi]] and [[Arrigo Boito]] wrote an opera over Shakespeare's ''[[Othello]]'' they added the aria [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QpxMMSuj-E "Credo in un Dio crudel"] ("I believe in a cruel God"), a sublime villain song, where the villain Iago, in a parody of a Christian creed, confesses to do evil [[Nietzsche Wannabe|because the world is pointless and everything is ruled by Fate]]
{{quote|And after all this mockery comes death.
And then? And then?
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* [[Kanye West]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLHU3w1nwdY Power] is basically about a all powerful celebrity getting off on how much people hate him.
 
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