SINGAPORE – In the run-up to Christmas, I asked my two younger daughters to send me their Christmas song playlists.

       This was just out of curiosity, you understand. Because they are teens, their music reaches them via Spotify and headphones, even when they are alone in a room, and so finding out what they are listening to now has to be by special request.

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