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you hear in german radio stations is quite hard to cope with these days.
First, they told you that they're the best, the one and only.
Sure, you have to cope with that somehow but you're used to it living in a pluralistic world order.
Then, they wanted you to believed that only this one particular radio station plays the best hits of the 70s, 80s and the SUPERhits of today. And they ALL claimed for SUPREMACY!!!
Ok, harder. Heavy breathing. But you still did your job, closed your eares when the jingles aired and tried to wipe away the tears and listen to the one good song they played every fifteen minutes or so.
And there were those nice little stories they told sometimes that made you laugh a little.
But now, they want to convince you that "you have the best taste in music" and "only we play it."
Hard enough, they do not intend to stop at this point. Seamlessly, without the slightest of pauses they go on like "guaranteed without ripping you off. 24 hours a day only on your hit music station!"
Boy, that's too much. And this is the short version. The thing is, that alone is not too hard, but mix it with the above mentioned, the compulsive jingle howling and take away the amusing stories.
Plus: some kind of hardcore-uber-techno-beat running in the so-called "background" all the time triggering your nerves at 160 bpm.
And that after every song.
No, not exactly after. It's more like in between because they may think you already know how it ends once it is half played.
There practically is not one millisecond of silence broadcasted.
They sure have a slogan like "silence is death!" or stuff like that.
Sometimes i wake up and scream, dreaming i was in the car driving and not able to tunr off the radio...
Thursday, December 18, 2003
//what
you hear in german radio stations is quite hard to cope with these days.
First, they told you that they're the best, the one and only.
Sure, you have to cope with that somehow but you're used to it living in a pluralistic world order.
Then, they wanted you to believed that only this one particular radio station plays the best hits of the 70s, 80s and the SUPERhits of today. And they ALL claimed for SUPREMACY!!!
Ok, harder. Heavy breathing. But you still did your job, closed your eares when the jingles aired and tried to wipe away the tears and listen to the one good song they played every fifteen minutes or so.
And there were those nice little stories they told sometimes that made you laugh a little.
But now, they want to convince you that "you have the best taste in music" and "only we play it."
Hard enough, they do not intend to stop at this point. Seamlessly, without the slightest of pauses they go on like "guaranteed without ripping you off. 24 hours a day only on your hit music station!"
Boy, that's too much. And this is the short version. The thing is, that alone is not too hard, but mix it with the above mentioned, the compulsive jingle howling and take away the amusing stories.
Plus: some kind of hardcore-uber-techno-beat running in the so-called "background" all the time triggering your nerves at 160 bpm.
And that after every song.
No, not exactly after. It's more like in between because they may think you already know how it ends once it is half played.
There practically is not one millisecond of silence broadcasted.
They sure have a slogan like "silence is death!" or stuff like that.
Sometimes i wake up and scream, dreaming i was in the car driving and not able to tunr off the radio...
Thursday, December 18, 2003
