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Is that our P2P protocol?

-Yeah, I'm just hacking for fun.
-Videochat?

-Boom.
-Yes! I can... see you now.

It's me. Pakistani Denzel.

From the ashes
will rise the phoenix

that shall be known as
"Bachmanity."

That's what you're gonna
call your company?

Coleman Blair partners
would like to offer Pied Piper

six million dollars.

We'll just need
your John Hancock.

-I can't.
-Why the fuck not?!

Because the numbers are fake!

We bought fake users
from a Bangladeshi click farm.

Laurie wants out.

Even a whiff of fraud
is a mortal sin for VCs.

Ow.

Pied Piper and all of its assets
are now officially

the property of Bachmanity LLC.

-Did you just say "Bachmanity?"
-They had the highest bid?

Bachmanity it is then.

Richard, you pulled us
out of a nosedive.

Of course, inevitably we will
plummet towards the earth,

but in the meantime
we are flying high.

♪ ♪

No, I'll get
my car tomorrow.
I had too many.

Got an Uber coming.
Thank you.

That was fast.

Hello. For Jim?

Yep.

Oh, would you--
would you care
for a water?

Why are
your fingers orange?

It's-- It's iodine.

I've been...
biting my nails,

so I put this on there
to stop me from doing it.

Looks like Cheetos,
tastes like asshole.

So, what do you do?

Venture capital
over at Wood Opal.

Wow.

Wow. Good.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, can I take this?

Sure.
All right.

Hello, hi!

My goodness,
this video chat app

is light-years ahead
of anything else out there
on the market.

I agree.

Yes, and you can add
multiple concurrent users

with no loss
in picture quality,
even on conventional 3G.

Let's see what happens
when we add more friends.

Hi, friend.
What's up?

Hello, friend.

Hey, should we add
another friend?

Yeah, we should.

How many friends can we
conference at the same time?

Well, thanks to the amazing
new TURN server,

as many as you like.

What if someone is in an area
with poor cellular reception?

I doubt it would even work.

And if it did, the lag,
the video quality...

...that would
be horrible.

Well, let's find out.

Could you keep your eyes
on the road, please?

Yeah, got it.
I'm on it.

Hey, friends.

Wow! Look at that.
The image is so clear.

We all look amazing,
don't we?

Yeah, we really do.
Yes.

Is that really just on
a cell signal?

Uh, yes.

This is the amazing
new company PiperChat.

Wait a minute.

I saw you at TechCrunch.
You're Richard Hendricks.

The very same. Yeah.
You're the fucking guy

that tried to walk
into Coleman Blair

with fraudulent numbers.

- No!
- Uh-oh.

- That was my fault.
- Yes, but no.

I mean, that--
that's the old thing.
This is the new thing,

and I can assure you,
it's very, very real.

You're not even my driver.
This says Sandeep
in an Escalade.

Ah, shit.
Look, look.

No one will even talk to us,
which is crazy.

We just surpassed 120,000
daily active users

and we're growing at a rate
of 18 percent, organically,
week over week.

Richard, that's
Facebook-level growth.

- Pull over now.
- That is great!

Richard, Richard,
do not pull over.

You will never see him again
if he gets out.
I am not involved!

Richard,
can you hear me?

Okay, for real, Richard.
You have to pull over.

Richard, do not--
do not pull over.
You'll never see him again.

Hey, are you
on the shitter?
Pull the fuck over.

- Richard!
- Okay.

What the fuck? Are you seriously
trying to kidnap me right now?

No. It's the locks.
I-- I don't know.
It's not my car.

Child locks are on.

I was babysitting my friend
Gloria's great-granddaughter.

It's on the left.

Got it. Look, look, look.
God damn it!

Come on. Listen to me.

We are desperate.
We need funding.

You need funding?
Yes.

Hit a million
daily active users

while sustaining
the same kind of growth,

then everybody in town
will be trying to kidnap you.

Problem solved.

Yeah,
easy for you to say.

Can you imagine how much
these servers are costing me

just to keep
this ship afloat?

Right, and every new user
increases our server cost.

Really? I'm sorry.

Is it hard
to become a billionaire?

Welcome to the Valley,
assholes.

Fuck.

What a dick.
Well, assuming
we don't get arrested,

looks like we have
to work our asses off

to reduce
our hosting bill.

Hi.
Hi.

If you actually get
to a million users...

call me.
My cell's on the back.

Oh, okay.

Did you finish?

Yeah, I just pushed my code.

Took me
two fucking days,

but I broke up
our entire code base
into parallel services.

You know, this whole job
would've been a lot easier

if you hadn't
designed sloppy services
in the first place.

Oh, silly me.

I guess when
I hacked together

the video chat
as an in-house tool,

I didn't foresee
that hundreds of thousands
of people

would shit themselves over
how fucking awesome it was.

I'll never underestimate
my talents again.

Don't worry.
I'll continue
to do it for you.

Less talk,
more work, boys.

I'm not paying you
to coffee klatsch

like a bunch
of fucking yentas.

You're not paying us at all.

I'm not paying you
because you're not
the one

getting fucked face-first
by your credit card company

because of massive
AWS hosting fees.

Well, you should
bear 100 percent
of the company's cost,

seeing as you do own
100 percent of the company.

What's taking you so long
to give us our fucking shares?

Recapping
a company is complex.

But I assure you,
Big Head and I are
on the case.

You better be.
We're not gonna
work for free forever.

Hey, the Karachi Kid
and I finished.

Did you push your code?

Uh...

actually, no.

Well, Your Highness,
could you please push
your code?

Well, I couldn't
push that code,

because I didn't
write that code.

What? We stayed up
for two fucking days.

Why didn't you write
your code?

Well, because I was working
on something much better.

So, I started to optimize
our code to handle higher tr...

You're supposed
to follow me.

Oh.

I, uh, I started
to optimize our code

to handle
higher traffic.

Then it occurred to me,
why rewrite our old code

when I can build
a new encoder

that doesn't strip away
a ton of channels and metadata.

So, I extended
my compression algorithm

to support-- get this--
12-bit color.

Okay, so our users will be
able to experience

a 10 percent increase
in image quality

with absolutely no increase
in server load whatsoever.

Just-Just-Just--
Just watch this.

Before.

After.

Before.

After.

Richard, I'm trying
very hard

not to completely
lose my shit right now.

I get it. I get it.

After every VC in town
turned us down,

we decided
that the best way
to stay alive

until we got to a million users
was to cut server usage.

Remember that?

The whole reason
that Gilfoyle and I

stayed up for 48
fucking straight hours

was to decrease
server load,

not keep it the same.

Technically, the reason
why we stayed up for two days

was to maximize our ability
to get a million users,

and I just did that.

Because who doesn't want
10 percent better image quality?

Who doesn't want it?
Everyone.

Everyone doesn't want it!

We already have
the best video chat.

People are using this
on their cellphones.

They're not gonna be able
to tell the fucking difference.

Guys, this is
a better product,

and I'm the CEO, and I'm gonna
say this is where we go.

You fucking prick.
Whoa.

Guys...
please be civil.

You hate the video chat.
I don't hate
the video chat, Dinesh.

You've always
hated the video chat,
because it's my thing,

and you wanna rewrite it
to make it all about you.

You're fucking jealous.

Jealous? Jealous?

You built the video chat,
I'll give you that. Okay.

You did, but you did it
using my algorithm.

Right, like when Picasso
painted a masterpiece,

the guy who made
the brushes and the paint

deserved all the credit, right?

So you're Picasso now?

I think I need to... leave,

but I love you guys.

Dinesh, I'm sorry,

but I think we should be
doing a little bit more

with this revolutionary
compression algorithm

than passable video chat.

But we already
did more, Richard.

It was called
"the platform."

And it was exactly
what you wanted to make,

and it fucking failed, okay?

I'm sorry,
but it's bad enough

that we can't get any funding
because of you.

You're killing us out there.

Don't also sabotage us
in here, too.

Pied Piper is
a video chat company.

Get your head around that.

I'm quite certain
I've never said this before.

I agree with Dinesh.

Well.

Oh. Well, that was just
a whole heap of fun.

Ordinarily, I loathe
coming to China, but when
you close a deal like that,

it makes the whole trip
a delight.

Champagne, gentlemen?

I think that's
very much in order.

I know you don't
toot your own horn,

so I'll do it for you.

Here to you, Jack,

and to your
Hooli/Endframe box

becoming the most successful
American data storage appliance

to ever be manufactured
in China.

Toot, toot.

Watch your back, Jeff Bezos,
here comes Hooli.

All right, gentlemen...
our flight today

from Shanghai
to Moffett Field
in Mountain View

will be just over 11 hours,
so if you'll just--

Oh, actually, I was
headed up to Jackson Hole,
see the wife and kids.

I-- I was gonna
charter up tomorrow,

but maybe you could
ask the boys

just to drop me off
on the way?

Save me the trouble?

Of course.

Well, and I mean,
it's really not a big deal,

but since we are headed east,
I think Jackson is further.

Maybe we'll head
to Moffett first,

then have the guys hop you
onto Jackson, okay?

Well-- Well, actually,
on flights like this,

the boys like
to go over the Pole,

so that, technically,
is a little more north
to south,

and Jackson
is quite a bit
further north.

So I think, maybe,
just go to Jackson first,

then head on off to Moffett.
That sound good?

Of course.
Great.

I'm gonna get a pillow.

♪ ♪

You know what
we desperately
need is a palapa.

A ploppa?

A palapa.

It's a Mexican structure
with palm fronds.

It's essentially a gazebo,

but spicier and with a south-
of-the-border kind of vibe.

I think it would make us
feel less exposed.

And generally,
I think it would
be good for morale.

Speaking of which,
morale has not exactly
been skyrocketing.

So, we need to get this
cap table done tout de suite.

Richard and the fellows

are entitled to 40 percent
of the company.

Now, if we each
give 20 percent,

we would still own
30 percent each.

That seems fair.

Seems totally fair to me.

Dad?

Nope. Not gonna happen.

Mr. Bighetti,
with all due respect, I--

If you had any respect,

you wouldn't have talked my son
into wasting his money...

again.

My son's not
giving up one share.

Not now, not ever.

Mr. Bighetti, if you're
going to control your son's
board seat,

these decisions
have to be unanimous.

You're going
to kill this comp--

I don't care.

In my eyes,
the company is
already dead.

Killed by you.

That's my edge.

If all I accomplish
by doing this

is making you as miserable
as you've made me

watching you fleece my son,

then I'm okay with that.

He seems okay
with that.

So you expect me
to give the 40 percent

to the gents
from my 50 percent,

effectively leaving me
with 10 percent?

Yes.

No. No, no, no.

Then I would've
invested 500 thou--
a half of a million dollars

just to end up
where I started?

Unacceptable.

I can accept that.

I'm going to bed.

Good night,
Brown Bear.

Love you, Papa Bear.

♪ ♪

Goddamn motherfucker.

- I mean, the guys are right.
- I'm fucking up the company.

I'm not helping
in any way.

You're certainly not helping
your cuticles by biting on them.

Your nail beds
are gonna get infected.

Where'd you learn how
to do this, anyway?

When I was on the street,
it was a means of survival.

I don't know, it's just that...

I mean, I almost killed us,

the company,
and that is so selfish.

I mean, if we have to get
a million users,

I need to get us funding,
right now.

How? We've already
been turned down

by every
respectable VC in town.

♪ ♪

Who said anything
about... respectable?

Oh, Richard, no.

Fuck yes,
I want to talk business.
What's the play?

Let's fuck this thing
right in the pussy.

Thanks for meeting me here.

My fucking nanny
got another DUI

and lost her license,
and I'm stuck picking up

my own kid
like an asshole.
So what's up?

Uhh...

Well, I know
you wanted to buy
Erlich's Pied Piper shares

back in the previous iteration,
the platform.

Well, I was hoping
you would want to come on
as a follow-on investor

for the current platform.
The video chat?

Yeah. It's got a great tech.
We're growing like crazy.

In fact,
that's why we need funding,
to keep up with the users,

and I think it could be
really good if we could
just keep it going.

No, you don't.

What?

You don't like it.

You don't believe
in this product
you're selling.

Russ, no, that's--
It's a good, sound business.

As I said,
the tech is great

and all the guys
are really behind it.

But you're not
behind it, Richard.

I can tell, and as much
as you want to be, you're not.

It's like this.

You're trying
to date a woman,

but deep down in your heart
you know you're gay.
Uhh...

Deep in your soul,
you know you would
rather be plowing a dude!

I don't-- I do--
Okay, what dude?

It could be any dude,
as long as you really
want to fuck him.

It could be a--
a twink, a bear,

an otter, a circuit queen,
a chub, a pup, a gipster,

a daddy chaser, a leather man,
a ladyboy, a Donald Duck.

Donald Duck's a gay guy who's
been kicked out of the Navy.

H-How do you know
so many gay things?

My grandfather just
came out of the closet.
Beautiful. Very inspiring.

But the point is,
if you're gonna spend
all day fucking,

shouldn't Pied Piper be
a dude you wanna fuck?

All right.
Let's do an exercise.

You've got unlimited time
and resources,

you can build anything
in the world you want
with your compression,

anything at all,
what's it gonna be?

- Three, two, one, go.
- Go, go, go.

You said I have
unlimited time?
Now. Now, now!

A new Internet.

What? Why?

Okay. Well, I haven't really
thought this through, so...

Okay.

I own a telescope...
Of course you do.

...and I brought it out
one night to look
at the full moon.

Of course you did.
And I got to thinking...

"Wow, we put
a man on the moon

using the computing power
of a handheld calculator."

And then I thought,
"Okay...

"there's literally millions
of times

"more computing power
in my phone

and that's just
sitting in my pocket
doing nothing." Right?

So then I thought, there's,
what, billions of phones

all around the world
with the same computing power

just sitting
in people's pockets.

So then I thought,
"What if we use
all those phones

to build
a massive network?"

We use
my compression algorithm

to make everything
small and efficient to move
things around, and...

if we could do it...

we could build a completely
decentralized version

of our current Internet,
with no firewalls,

no tolls,
no government regulation,

no spying.
Information...

would be totally free
in every sense of the word.

You wanna build
a new Internet?

Yeah, it's--
Richard, I like it.

That I would fund.

Well, I-I-- I don't know
if it's possible, and--

Look, if this new Internet
is the man of your dreams

and this is the man
that you wanna fuck,

then you need
to fuck him.

That man
I will pay you
to fuck.

Where the fuck
is that kid?

Wait a minute.

Aw, shit.

They kicked us
out of this place.

I'm at the wrong
fucking school.

Richard, you find that man,
fuck him good.

Careful please.
He's gonna peel out.

♪ Cut my life into pieces,
this is my last resort ♪

Monica, I need to--

Oh. You're not...

Monica? No. Thank God.
I'm Ed Chen.

Laurie put me in the good office
and moved Monica down the hall.

Way down the hall.

Okay. Sorry.

You're gonna listen
to Russ Hanneman?

Richard, you sound
like a crazy person.

I know, but--
but Russ is right.

I mean, I hate the video chat.
I really do.

Oh...
What?

Oh, wow, you can see
right into the--

Yeah, I'm very aware.

Laurie is punishing me
for taking your side

and going against her,
so she moved me down here

and gave my office
to that little

brownnosing shit, Ed Chen.

Anyway, Richard,
you're not gonna
seriously go home

and tell the guys
in your company

that even though your
user rates are skyrocketing

that you wanna pivot.

For the past 48 hours,

I've been trying to rewrite
the core video chat code,

and I literally can't.

Instead of typing,
I just bite my fingernails.

I think, subconsciously,

I would rather bite
my own fingers off
than work on this platform.

Richard, I know people
who have spent

their entire careers
chasing after an app

with this kind of growth rate
and never hit it.

It's a really good product.

That may be,
but it's not for me.

And look, I know these guys
are my friends,

but they're also my employees,
and it's my company.

So... if I say we have
to pivot, we pivot.

Okay.
I-I-- I have to go.

All right. Well, if you're sure,
then tell them and then
call me and tell--

What? No, I--
I have to go.

There's another men's room
on the fourth floor.

Right. 'Cause then you would've
seen mine twice.

♪ ♪

I mean, we're all
thinking it, right?

Richard is
fucking with a product
that is working.

He should not be the CEO
of this company.

I understand
your concerns,

but is this the time
that we fire Richard?

Is this the moment
that I become the CEO?

You? Why you?

It's a simple process
of elimination.

Gilfoyle,
as an anarchist

would never accept
a position of authority

in any official
organization.
None.

And you, of course,
are out of the picture,

because Gilfoyle would
never allow it.

Yeah, that's true.

And Jared,
he'd sooner commit
hara-kiri than...

replace little baby Richard.

So that leaves me.

And honestly, gents,
who would you rather have

defending your four percent
stake in the company--

Five.
What?

Five percent.
You said four.
Was it--

You said three,
and then you had--

- No, it's five.
- Five.

You know what?
I'm gonna back channel,

look at some notes,
and we'll get to it.

In the meantime,
if and when...

we are to depose Richard,
I am his obvious heir.

Erlich, no offense,

but the board
is you, Richard,
and my dad, right?

So, I think that means
you and my dad

would have to agree
on who replaces Richard,

and pretty sure my dad would,
like, never approve you.

It's just
not gonna happen.
Thank you.

Yeah.
There is someone else.

Someone who has
zero strikes against him.

Someone who has held
high-level positions

at one of the biggest
tech companies in the Valley.

Someone who's been
on the cover

of one of the most prestigious
tech publications in the world.

He sounds awesome.

Could we get him?

♪ ♪

And as of now,
we've got the votes...

of enough key
Malaysian ministers

to proceed
with construction,

but that support
is time-critical.

Carol's right.
We'd have to break ground
before monsoon season

or else the entire project
could collapse.

So, what do you think?

Sorry. About what?

About the factory.

Ah. The factory.

The factory.

Excuse me for a moment.

So, what have you got?
Well, sir, I did
as you asked.

I flew the company plane
to Shanghai,

then Moffett,
then Jackson Hole.

Then I flew back to Shanghai,
then to Jackson Hole,

then to Moffett,
which is where I just landed.

And?
Moffett is
28.3 minutes closer.

I fucking knew it!
Barker should've
dropped you off first, sir.

Wait. What about headwinds
or storm activity?

I don't want to give him
any room to wriggle out of this.

Here's what I'm gonna
need you to do.

Fly each leg five more times
and average them.

It's the only way
to be sure.

And we're not concerned
with the expense

of 20 more private
transcontinental flights?

Of course we are.

Jack Barker is costing
the shareholders

of this company a fortune,
and he must be stopped.

I'll go back
to Moffett right now.

Good. Call me each time
you're in Shanghai.

I'll see you in a week.
Yes, sir.

♪ ♪

Guys?

Shit, he came
in the back.

Richard, we need
to talk.

Well, actually,
let me just say
something first here.

I don't think Pied Piper
should be a video chat company.

The balls on you.

Richard,
we've all decided

you are out.
Big Head is in.

Not my call.
Richard, we just can't
keep fucking pivoting.

We won't do it again.
Just wait
for a second, okay?

Just-- You're not
getting it. Please.

Uh, I'm quitting.

Wait. What?

Richard, I was
waiting out front!

They want to ambush you
and replace you with Big Head,

but I had nothing
to do with it.

Again, not my call.

I was ready
to fight you guys,

but then,
on the way home,
it occurred to me

there might be
a better way.

I'm going to start
my own company.

I will give up
all of my equity
in the video chat

if I get
to completely own
my algorithm.

I will grant you guys
a perpetual license

to use the algorithm
in your video chat,

but I need the algorithm
to build something else.

And look,
forget a million users,

with me out
of the company,

you guys would be able
to raise money, no problem.

And that way,
everybody wins.

So we can use the algorithm,
free and clear, for video chat?

Yes.
I mean, we-- we shouldn't
even be talking about this.

And you would leave behind
your 25 percent,

thus giving me enough equity
to compensate the boys fairly

and Big Head's father would
retain his 50 percent?

I think that's right. Yes.

And I would own 10 percent
of your new company.

Wait. What? Why?
The algorithm was developed
here in the Incubator.

Richard, shame on you.

Well, dealbreaker. Let's--
Should we get some food?

No, no.
That's okay.
It's fine.

And I'm here
for advice,

or advice
for the new CEO,
whoever that may be.

To wit, uh...

I know it's probably
not my place to give
this suggestion,

but I think
it should be Dinesh.

What?
What?

What?
What?

Yeah. Sorry, Big Head.
What?

Yeah. Dinesh, you were
the one that hacked together

the video chat
in the first place.

You know the product
inside and out.

You are the horse
that I would bet on.

You really think so?

I do.

I'm down. Gilfoyle?

Gilfoyle, can I please be
CEO of Pied Piper?

Spoken like a true leader.

But since
your failure as a leader
is a virtual certainty,

tolerating your
short reign as CEO

in exchange for a front-row seat
to the disaster seems fair.

Plus, if I'm wrong,
which I'm not...

I get rich.
So I'm down
with it, Dinesh.

Jared, what do you
think about this?

I think
this is crazy.

I left my job
at Hooli to-- to come work
with you, Richard.

And-- and now you're leaving?

Look, these guys,
they're gonna need you,

so if you want
to support me,
you support them.

Think you can do that?

I've always been
very adept

at taking
the shape of whatever shoe
was pressed down upon me,

so I can try
to make it work.

Then it's settled.

Dinesh is the new CEO
of Pied Piper.

Oh. Actually,
just one last thing.

I think you guys should
call yourselves PiperChat.

I'm gonna have to insist that
I keep the name Pied Piper,
and I won't budge on that.

Yeah, it's totally fine.
Okay, yeah.
Who gives a shit?

That's fine.
Terrible fucking name.

Let's get to work.

Congratulations.

So, wait. I don't
have to be CEO, right?

Dinesh is
going to do that?

All right. Let's figure out
how this gets split up.

Let's see.

And, um... yeah.

Jared...

...go.

Go on, man.

Get out of here.

Dinesh, you'll get
five percent.

Gilfoyle, five percent.

- Jared, five percent.
- Yeah. Okay,

so we all get five,
not four.

Now you said--
you said four?

- No, five.
- I said five.

Jared, can we get
five more engineers?

That's--
That would come out
of Jared's percentage.

No.

♪ ♪

You wanted
to see me, Skipper?

I did indeed.

Jack, I appreciate
everything you've done

in your position as head
of the Hooli/Endframe box,

but I think
the company's needs
are better suited

if I move you elsewhere.

Really?

Well, I appreciate
the vote of confidence, GB.

I'm flattered.

Frankly,
little bit surprised.

Why would you be surprised?
Can you think of any reason

why you don't deserve
a promotion?

I mean, anything at all?
Well...

I don't want to hurt my arm
patting myself on the back,

but... right off
the top of my head...

No, I guess not.

I mean, you've always been
straight with me, right?

Straight to the point.

I sure have.

And you've always gone out
of your way for me, yes?

Always put me first?
Gone the extra mile?

Gosh...
I sure tried.

Did you?

All right, Jack.

Professor. Gary in HR
will set you up.

Enjoy your new offices.

Thank you, sir.

♪ ♪

Oh, hey. Would you like
to see your desk?

Okay.

Here it is.

This is your desk.

♪ ♪

♪ The-the-the system
will defeat itself ♪

♪ Nothin' stays
in a steady state ♪

♪ It overheats and melts ♪

♪ It only feeds itself ♪

♪ The system, yo,
I think it exists ♪

♪ Just because like
a pit eats its pups ♪

♪ Eats its own litter up,
the system's fucked,
it's corrupt ♪

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it's genocidal ♪

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no beginning cycle ♪

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in the '80s I wanted minks ♪

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to listen to Michael ♪

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I'm sipping on drinks ♪

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and Gucci links ♪

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mob figure, I'm mad low ♪

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big up to Shadow ♪

♪ D-D-DJ Shadow,
we rose to throw blows ♪

♪ Can't see me, but Nas
moving the fastest ♪

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no needed glasses ♪

♪ I'm a 3D movie,
no needed glasses ♪

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for 15 seconds ♪

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cover your ears,
do not listen ♪

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what I'm sayin' ♪

♪ To make you
feel is ♪

♪ My new expression,
new expression ♪