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What's up with album's mindless followers? (5)

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I believe the answer is:

sheep

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'mindless followers?' is the definition.
(sheep can mean an unquestioning follower)

'what's up with album's' is the wordplay.
'what's' becomes 'eh's' (sound used to ask 'what?' or 'pardon?').
'up' is a reversal indicator (in down clue: letters go upwards).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'album's' becomes 'ep' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'ehs' backwards is 'she'.
'she'+'ep'='SHEEP'

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(Other definitions for sheep that I've seen before include "Cotswolds?" , "- may safely graze (Bach)" , "feature of 21/23 [NATIVITY SCENE]" , "Ewe" , "Woolly quadruped" .)

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