Four decades before 15-year-old Miley Cyrus caused a media uproar for posing for photographs that implied she was nude, Janis Ian -- then also 15 -- wrote the critically acclaimed song "Society's Child." A thoughtful look at interracial dating, the song was deemed too controversial to play on many radio stations across the country. A few years later, Ian would become a pop star, thanks to her best-known song, "At Seventeen," which told the universal tale, "Dreams were all they gave for free, to ugly duckling girls like me."
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