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Toxic Positivity

2023 studio album by the Used

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ118835437 ↗
Source-derived summary

Toxic Positivity is the ninth studio album by American rock band the Used, released through Big Noise on May 19, 2023. The album was produced by John Feldmann.

Background

The band recorded 11 songs in 11 days in October 2021 and 10 songs in 10 days in February 2023 for this album. The first single released from the album is "Numb" and the second was "Giving Up".

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The public source identifies “Toxic Positivity” as 2023 studio album by the Used. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Toxic, Positivity and studio.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2023-05-19. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Toxic, Positivity and studio providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q118835437. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2023 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Toxic Positivity” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.