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fruits of consumerism. Amongst all the chaos is love and celebration, there is this glimmer of hope that runs through the song, a little notion that no matter what happens, these two people are gonna have a fucking good time regardless of the tyrants that run their world, and regardless of the imminent doom from these 'Hypersonic
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In a press release, Fender explained the name of the song was "inspired by a newly developed
Russian missile that travels at something like nine times the speed of sound." When describing "Hypersonic Missiles", he said it is "In many ways, an unorthodox love song". He further explained that
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