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One guy, one acoustic guitar, and a song about a girl who turned him down. Two years after it appeared on an album, it was the #1 song in America — and the real Delilah had to live with being everyone's idealized dream girl.
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A teenager who wrote her own songs and played her own guitar in a sea of choreographed teen-pop — Michelle Branch's "Everywhere" was the anti-TRL anthem that somehow became peak TRL. That driving guitar, the spy-on-the-cute-neighbor video, and the fact that she wrote it herself made her the authentic alternative of fall 2001.