by M W

Created on: January 25, 2008

A particular popular radio station in my area plays the same music hourly, if not half hourly! I have to constantly turn the dial for a little variety, only to be bombarded by commercials and another rotation in a different genre. It is frustrating at best especially when the wacky and crazy hosts spend half of their time joking around with callers, often times flirting disgustingly, instead of playing music at all. If it's on rotation at least leave it be for the whole hour so I can just listen to the top ten hits repeatedly, three or four times.

The music isn't even that grand. If a song is out that I find annoying I am only free from its grip for twenty minutes at best, until I have to hear it again..then again. Maybe it's especially true on request lines, where the general populace accepts a song and demands the track is looped. Maybe it's the station in general that bumps a song for whatever reason, to grind the lyrics into our head, so we find ourselves singing along even though we detest the beat. I have to make fun of myself for doing it, yet I continue listening to the brainwash until I like the song, buy the CD and find it is the only worthy song on the entire track. Maybe if I looped the entire CD twenty four seven I could appreciate the rest of it too.

When friday rolls along and I pop on the radio for some dance party remix, I find myself laughing, because suddenly it isn't about the beat but about the songs they loop together, speed up and slow down, to form some hideous combination when done by an amateur. I am again listening to the very same popular top ten, in a hidden fashion, that everybody adores. "It is, like, so different!" Except exactly the same. I am once more listening to the top ten at ten, eleven, twelve...and well into prime partying hours, through badly disguised techno rhythms. I can never escape the rotation!

I am a cheapo that appreciates the free radio, yet with limited channels and a smaller variety of top tens I am often searching the Internet for free stations to satisfy my listening needs. And suddenly I wonder how my friends know the newest songs, yet I do not. While they sing every lyric, I am oddly jealous and left out. So I guess the repetitive grind is needed in a way. It's necessary for CD sales certainly.

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