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Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.
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Katy Perry's 130-minute. 26-song set covered almost all of her big hits, sometimes in frustratingly brief medley form, Wednesday at State Farm Arena.