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Add to FavoritesYou know music is loud when you feel the earth shaking before you actually hear it. Sitting at a red light, it's the first tell tale sign. Then this little modified Honda Accord or Toyota pickup with tires with such low profile that it almost looks like they rolled black electrical tape once around the chrome rims. Amazing that anyone can ride in it without needing a back brace the way they are bouncing up and down. And the chassis is so low that they're going to scrape bottom if they dare pull up on the lip of a driveway. No matter that the driver probably makes minimum wage and lives in a rented apartment, he has poured every dime he earns into this toy of his. And it's all about being obnoxious to everyone around him. It's the ultimate test of patience if you're in a hurry and you get behind the little bugger.
Then you hear the (cough cough, hack hack) music. As soon as you feel the earth vibrating and the little toy comes rolling into the lane next to you, then you hear the obnoxious hip-hop or rap totally-in-your face lyrics. Two heads are looking over the dashboard, much like an alligator submerged in water. The back seat is filled with woofers that that will confound the seismic monitoring from the National Earthquake Information Center I think they're literally tracking the little fella!
I have to do a reality check. Am I reaping what I sowed? I hope not. At least, I didn't think the Beach Boys at full blast in our souped up Chevys was obnoxious. That was style! No, back in our day it wasn't the lowered car, it was the raised car. Well, at least that made sense. It was modified for racing purposes with wide tires made for peeling out. They were trying to slow us down, not speed us up.
Honestly I never did it to be obnoxious! Please don't punish me, God! Deliver me from this little tin can on black electrical tape wheels. No, to be obnoxious was not the point. I never did it to be mean. I was promoting my music. I knew that if everyone heard it, they would be enlightened! They have to know this cool music, have the not heard it? I will see to it that they do. Certainly if they heard this new song that is on the top twenty they will know I am cool, and they too will become cool. And it was the next generation, not mine that said, if it's too loud you're too old'.
Actually, it isn't the volume that irritates me. But the lyrics are pure toxin. It is pornaudio, and I hope they ban it. Maybe then he'll swap it for 'Surfer Girl', and I will turn my head over at him and when his little beady eyes and mine connect, I'll smile at him and tell him to turn it up!
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I personally think that loud music is not an enviormental toxin. It really has nothing to do with the eniorment. Unless you get pollutants into the air from the concert, it really does nothing to the eniorment.
Most concerts are held indoors, so you really keep the music in a certain area for a time. Outside concerts even don't mess with the ozone or other enviormental thigs, do they? Maybe people are so uptight about the enviorment that they believe that anything is the exact cause.
To tell you the truth, I'm not worried about the eniorment at all, but thats a different story for a different time.
One question I hae to ask the people that said yes is how loud music is a toxin to the enviorment? Because it does nothing to the atmosphere, it doesn't effect nature or really anything. I really think its just another excuse for people to make, to blame on people for the "condition" the enviorments in.
Maybe the people on the yes side are prejdice about loud music. Really no one knows about the enviorment for sure, I mean its healing itself already, and either nobody notices or nobody cares enough to notice. Maybe people are just letting there emotions get in the way of making a reasonable assumption. how did loud music get caught up in the enviorment thing anyway, I mean it really never been a problem before, has it?
I wonder if the whole media circus about global warming, has everything that humans enjoy at fault? I mean there was loud music concerts in the seventies, eighties, and nineties, but only now has become a enviormental issue. No meaning to put anyone down, but who really cares if loud music is the issue, there is always going to be concerts of any kind. To give you an example, would you stop driving your car if it was an enviormental toxin, which actually in ost cases is? If you said no then why stop loud music concerts? people are stubborn, theres no changing something sometimes, and for me its one of those things.
In conclusion, I can't see in anyway, and this maybe because i'm being pigheaded, how loud music is associated with being an eniormental toxin. Where's the proof, for this topic I want to see proof that Loud music is an enviormental toxin. I also think that people are to uptight these days about the enviorment. If we would stop worrying about it and let the earth fix itself....., but thats a topic for another time and place. So I hope whoever reads this sees my point on the topic.
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