Whatever station my co-workers had on the other day seemed to play the same 3 songs over and over again.
I'm sure their entire playlist consists of more than just 3 songs.....I tried timing it once- this same station played the same Rihanna* song once EVERY 40 MINUTES (or less) for 7 hours straight! That means their entire "set list" is less than an hour long(!)
How can anyone stand to hear the same song that many times in one day?
And yet..... on several different occasions, certain younger co-workers have set their ipods to loop a single song over and over for 1-3 hours straight. This baffles me beyond all understanding. I cannot imagine any song that I would ever want to hear more than twice in a row, let alone hearing it for hours on end.
I thought the local hard rock station was horrible cause it played certain songs once per day- every day- I got sick of coming into work knowing I'd hear "Man in the Box", "Back in Black", and EVERY U2 hit EVERY SINGLE DAY- but to deliberately listen to one song over and over again for hours? Can someone explain this to me?!?
There is a VAST WEALTH of music out there nowadays. The musical "galaxy" available to each of us is so huge, rich, and varied it beggars description- yet these awful, awful, narrow radio stations have succeeded in turning this music-lover into a music-hater, and I'm not alone; most true music lovers I know absolutely LOATHE mainstream commercial radio. We'd rather listen to talk, or silence, or the sound of a dishwasher than to be force-fed the same 3 bland generic songs over and over all day. Yet somehow, pushing a few bland, generic songs must be a viable business model....HOW?!?
This may seem like a petty rant over a trivial thing- but music is far from trivial, it's one of the things closest to my heart, it is important.
*NOTE- this is a separate rant about the voice-synthesis program also known as Rihanna. Maybe she's a real human singer, but I'm not so sure. Listen carefully; every time the same phrase repeats her inflection is absolutely identical each time. So either it's a machine minicking a human voice, or an artist who was so lazy she just recorded each phrase once and repeats the sample over and over again.
The result is the single most boring vocal 'performance' I have ever heard. To me, her vocals sound absolutely- perhaps deliberately- devoid of passion.
I'm sure their entire playlist consists of more than just 3 songs.....I tried timing it once- this same station played the same Rihanna* song once EVERY 40 MINUTES (or less) for 7 hours straight! That means their entire "set list" is less than an hour long(!)
How can anyone stand to hear the same song that many times in one day?
And yet..... on several different occasions, certain younger co-workers have set their ipods to loop a single song over and over for 1-3 hours straight. This baffles me beyond all understanding. I cannot imagine any song that I would ever want to hear more than twice in a row, let alone hearing it for hours on end.
I thought the local hard rock station was horrible cause it played certain songs once per day- every day- I got sick of coming into work knowing I'd hear "Man in the Box", "Back in Black", and EVERY U2 hit EVERY SINGLE DAY- but to deliberately listen to one song over and over again for hours? Can someone explain this to me?!?
There is a VAST WEALTH of music out there nowadays. The musical "galaxy" available to each of us is so huge, rich, and varied it beggars description- yet these awful, awful, narrow radio stations have succeeded in turning this music-lover into a music-hater, and I'm not alone; most true music lovers I know absolutely LOATHE mainstream commercial radio. We'd rather listen to talk, or silence, or the sound of a dishwasher than to be force-fed the same 3 bland generic songs over and over all day. Yet somehow, pushing a few bland, generic songs must be a viable business model....HOW?!?
This may seem like a petty rant over a trivial thing- but music is far from trivial, it's one of the things closest to my heart, it is important.
*NOTE- this is a separate rant about the voice-synthesis program also known as Rihanna. Maybe she's a real human singer, but I'm not so sure. Listen carefully; every time the same phrase repeats her inflection is absolutely identical each time. So either it's a machine minicking a human voice, or an artist who was so lazy she just recorded each phrase once and repeats the sample over and over again.
The result is the single most boring vocal 'performance' I have ever heard. To me, her vocals sound absolutely- perhaps deliberately- devoid of passion.
