When I'm driving to and from work, I usually listen to JAMMiN 107.5 (yes, that is the actual capitalization), which plays hip hop and R&B. It's not a great radio station. The playlist is pretty repetitive, and lately it seems like they've only been playing Sean Kingston's "Fire Burning," which I probably would like if I hadn't heard it so many times now, and Black Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow," which I really kind of despise for being so aggressively vapid.*
The other issue with 107.5? The sheer number of commericals. And the commercials are weird. There's one commercial that claims you can get a new home for only $2. What they really mean is that if you go to their website, they will sell you a list of foreclosed homes in your area for $2. The commercial features a very happy woman telling another very happy woman about how she's only paying $100 a month for her new home, which she found off the foreclosure list. Because it's great to be able to save money over somebody else's shattered dreams.
Another commercial is for credityes.com, which tries to convince you that if you sign up at their website, car dealers will panting at your doorstep trying to sell you cars. Even if you're bankrupt, unemployed, in the middle of a divorce, have horrible credit, and you totaled your last two cars, apparently. Because you really need that new car.
Finally, there are occasional PSAs about STDs which are kind of hilarious. My favorite is the one in which a girl is gushing to her boyfriend about the STD he gave her for her birthday. "Gonorrhea? You shouldn't have!" "Well, I knew you didn't have it and I heard you talking to Sandy about hers, and I just wanted to be the one to give it to you..."
*Don't get me wrong, pop music doesn't need a serious (or even coherent) message to be good. That's not the point. But the more I hear it, the more I'm convinced that "Boom Boom Pow" just fucking sucks!
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