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Janis Ian Is Legitimately a Real Person

Cady's (Lindsay Lohan) rebellious new friend Janis Ian (Lizzy Caplan) is named after one of the two musical guests in the first episode of Saturday Night Live, as Fey is notoriously an SNL alumnus. The song that won Ian a Grammy, "At Seventeen," shares some major themes with Mean Girls, ruminating on the "beauty queens" and "ugly ducklings."

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