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It's easy to write off reunions as a lazy cash-in, but the dedicated fans who are likely to turn up will want an experience to remember.

But his old band is still very much top of mind; he is currently sifting through the band’s vaults, trying to find unused material to release that won’t come off like some cheap cash-in for the fans.

Omarosa Manigault Newman made a similar claim in 2018 during her press tour for her cash-in/book “Unhinged.”

“But it is hard to feel like you have to play perfect baseball offensively. Like, if you don’t cash-in in a certain inning, that it’s gonna cost you. So I think there’s something to do that.”

But a new “Mean Girls” can withstand all that when it has an overall approach that rejects the feeling of a made-for-streaming nostalgia cash-in.