{"id":590,"date":"2007-11-16T20:48:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T03:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=590"},"modified":"2009-04-18T14:44:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T21:44:03","slug":"banalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2007\/11\/16\/banalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Banalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At work there&#8217;s a bit of &#8220;war of the radio stations&#8221; going on&#8211;it seems three or four people each have strong preferences about which radio station is best suited for working in the lab, so we swing between:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Soft rock\/adult contemporary\/easy listening<\/li>\n<li>Modern rock<\/li>\n<li>Classical<\/li>\n<li>Top 40-ish type music<\/li>\n<li>French talk radio (that&#8217;s me, and I only dare put it on when I&#8217;m in at 7:30 in the morning. Which I think has happened approximately once.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, so today we have the adult contemporary station, and I hear a snatch of a song that goes something like:<br \/>\n&#8220;everybody wants to be understood &#8230; you are loved &#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nI think to myself: &#8220;Who wrote this song? Are they kidding themselves? &#8216;You are loved.&#8217;  &#8216;You are loved.&#8217; What an excellent and gripping hook. And why why why why would Josh Groban sing this?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be the first to admit I don&#8217;t always pay a huge amount of attention to lyrics (seeing as how I don&#8217;t understand the lyrics to half the music I listen to), but when I do, lyrics can really make or break a song for me. I mean, I know half the songs on that station are along the same kinds of lines, but &#8230; I honestly wondered for about 30 seconds whether this was a parody of some kind.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I think I&#8217;m just kind of bitter that I don&#8217;t get my random tune-out-able Top 40 music now. I&#8217;m not sure I really like it any better, but at least the music tends to be a bit more upbeat (important at the end of a long day.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At work there&#8217;s a bit of &#8220;war of the radio stations&#8221; going on&#8211;it seems three or four people each have strong preferences about which radio station is best suited for working in the lab, so we swing between: Soft rock\/adult contemporary\/easy listening Modern rock Classical Top 40-ish type music French talk radio (that&#8217;s me, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22,78],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotidian","tag-music","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}