"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
30 August 2007Dentists and such take noteMichele doesn't want to hear your tunes:
And it's really not fair for you to subject us to a station that plays nothing but sappy love songs all day long. There's only so much Michael Bolton one can take before a "workplace incident" occurs. And every time they play "Sometimes When We Touch" I have the sudden urge to strap on a pair of roller skates and wait for someone to ask me to skate the "couples only" song.
Look around the office. Some of us — like me — are wearing these new fangled things called headphones. They are this great invention that allows you to listen to Journey's "Open Arms" in your own little headspace, where no one else has to hear it. I don't subject you to my repeated playings of HellYeah's "You Wouldn't Know," do I? No. So don't subject all of us to "Butterfly Kisses." Unless you have a desire to see yourself bleeding on the 5:00 news. Two points:
Still, I applaud on general principle anything that reduces the incidence of Michael Bolton. If it can be done with Elton John, fine; if it takes the Dead Milkmen, so be it. Posted at 6:53 AM to Almost YogurtTrackBack: 3:33 PM, 30 August 2007 » Public Music from Violins and Starships What they said. I hate going into businesses that have popular music playing on their speakers. It's not so bad in a large store. After that initial feeling of being assaulted when I walk in the door it just sort of becomes a part of the general backg......[read more] Heh. I'm unemployed now so I don't have to hear those awful songs unless I go into a store where they are on the muzak speakers. And I am free to leave those places. Posted by: Andrea Harris at 7:37 AM on 30 August 2007I don't know about music that I don't want to hear, but every so often when I'm sitting at a traffic light there's an unusually rhythmic earthquake. It always seems like a chicken-or-the-egg thing to me: doesn't playing that noise that loud in an enclosed space turn one's brain to corn syrup? But who would play that noise that loud in an enclosed space if their brains weren't already corn syrup? Posted by: McGehee at 10:37 AM on 30 August 2007Corn syrup? You are too kind. Corn syrup has a use. The "c" in rap is silent as well as invisible. Posted by: unimpressed at 2:32 PM on 30 August 2007I'm thankful to be able to use headphones most days. It's the days when I'm on the phones when I can't use them and I have to be subjected to the crap music on someone's radio - while I am trying to deal with attorneys and crying defendants on the phone. Posted by: michele at 5:02 PM on 30 August 2007Oh, you poor fools! You should work in an office where major clientele includes BOTH all major record labels AND Clear Channel. Like da Doll. We can program pretty much anything we like -- and frequently do. Sux 2BU. kthnxbai! GFD Posted by: Gabrielle Dolly at 9:39 AM on 31 August 2007 |