Music Overload

[MantaRay]

I'm sure we all enjoy a bit of music now and again but why are we bombarded with it, especially when it's not music to our own taste? It's there all the time, whining away in coaches, shops, supermarkets, adverts, background [or not so background] in most tv programmes, so much so that's it's actually a relief to switch the tv off. Even most documentaries have become music video's with endless repeating riffs.

Is it just me, or has the entire human race been threatened with extinction unless it is fed constant music?

[andy-hughes]

Yet again, it's a 'generation' change.

When i was in my teens and twenties, music was a passion for the majority of young people. we bought our records with hard-saved money, took them home, and enjoyed the pleasure of sitting and listening to them.

With the advent of the internet and personal media, together with many additional forms of entertainment music has become generic, something to have on on the background, which means that a large proportion of music produced is for that purpose, and has not lasting impact or quality, designed as it is to provide a background soundtrack to everyday life, and not to be thought about or listened to with any degree of attention.

I do agree though - music forced on people is largely - by definition - unexciting or enjoyable, and for those of us of a 'certain age', it represents an intrusive noise that has not always beeh there.

For 'modern youth' - it is as natural as oxygen, but far less life-enhancing.

[Tizzi24]

I can't imagine a supermarket without music! I would miss it (and I'm in my mid-60's)!

[alan-r]

i agree manta every blasted store has it in, i love music in my home / car and loud but its crucifying to have it bombarding you ears everywhere, even in the pound shops they've got some very cheap radio blaring out

[vulcan]

It wouldn't be so bad if the music played had some variety. There's a lot of good music out there that just never gets played. A lot of shops play the repetitive type and it is so boring, I'd hate to work in such places.