I'm trying desperately to remember a pop song from 2008.

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I used to work on my university campus radio station in college. We used to talk about current events around the school, any news around the surrounding town, and played requested songs for students, something our school surprisingly allowed. I remember a very weird couple of months where students who tuned into the show constantly requested a song called "See You After, Babe", a pop song by some one-hit-wonder group called Symmetry Icon, the dumbest name for a band I've ever heard. But that song was huge around October and November of 2008. As one of the campus radio's DJs, I had to play that song over like a hundred times in two months. I heard it everywhere, in malls, gas stations, on real radio stations, and I think even on MTV.

Something was weird about that song, but I couldn't remember exactly what. I tried Googling the song and band, but nothing came up in the results for either. Not even YouTube had a single clip of the song.

I frequent an alumni Facebook page for my school, and I posted a question on there asking if anyone remembered the song. The post got a bunch of likes and a lot of people started hitting me up about things they recall about Symmetry Icon's mysterious hit. One girl wrote to me that she couldn't remember how it went, but that the lyrics were kind of awkward and unconventional. Another classmate told me that the song was so catchy that it was stuck in his head for like weeks.

A week went by since I had posted on the alumni page, and then I got a message from a guy that used to live in the dorm next to mine named Matt. Matt private messaged me asking if I found any leads about the song. I told him no. He told me that he had nothing but bad memories about that song. Here are his messages verbatim (*NOTE: Paul was his dorm roommate):

"yea dude I haven't heard that song since that year... I remember paul would always crank it up in the room. I can't remember how it went, but I remember it was kinda unusual and not a typical pop song, but everyone loved it. I couldn't stand it. Paul REALLY loved it tho, he was always humming it. And then one day, I never heard the song again, and Paul was acting totally strange. He was always partying and outgoing and shit but around that time he got super depressed. One day I asked him what was up, and he said that he couldn't get the song out of his head and that it's gone forever now and he'll never be able to hear it again. Idk if you know now dude, but Paul is still not doing so well, he's got no job, no girl, hardly ever talks to anyone... I message him every now and then and he just says how he misses 2008 when life was good. I told him to see a shrink, but he says that won't help, he just needs 'something new to listen to'. He's a part of that alumni group, and I know he's seen your post, and I'm worried he's gonna snap dude. Can you talk to him?"

I messaged Paul soon after, asking him how he was.

I messaged Paul soon after, asking him how he was

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