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I was eating a cheeseburger and fries at Five Guys tonight, and the following songs played on the Muzak, in this order:
Apart from the Fleetwood Mac, which I hate and have always hated, every one of those is something from my record collection, stuff that I still listen to.
But I'm 54 years old. I looked around the room, and it looked like everyone else there was in their 20s. I wondered what they thought about the background music, if they thought about it at all? Is this noise like Chinese Water Torture for the employees, that way Modern Rock or Rap or Top 40 radio is for me when I hear it at work? Do they think it's corny, or quaint, or do they think it's kind of cool? I wonder who they're trying to target?
But the part that amused me, why I'm writing this, is that we were having a pretty fierce thunderstorm at the time, and at the end of the Pink Floyd piece, the girl at the table next to me asked the guy "IS THAT THE TORNADO SIREN???"
At the pizza joint down the street from my apartment building, they've always got rock music blasting in the kitchen, usually something like old Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Mountain, bluesy guitar rock kind of stuff, and the guys there are all in their late teens to early 20s, rocking out to music from my childhood. By choice, not some corporate decision like at Five Guys. Are there a lot of kids who still listen to old rock music, instead of Nickelback or dubstep or rap?
Apart from the Fleetwood Mac, which I hate and have always hated, every one of those is something from my record collection, stuff that I still listen to.
But I'm 54 years old. I looked around the room, and it looked like everyone else there was in their 20s. I wondered what they thought about the background music, if they thought about it at all? Is this noise like Chinese Water Torture for the employees, that way Modern Rock or Rap or Top 40 radio is for me when I hear it at work? Do they think it's corny, or quaint, or do they think it's kind of cool? I wonder who they're trying to target?
But the part that amused me, why I'm writing this, is that we were having a pretty fierce thunderstorm at the time, and at the end of the Pink Floyd piece, the girl at the table next to me asked the guy "IS THAT THE TORNADO SIREN???"
At the pizza joint down the street from my apartment building, they've always got rock music blasting in the kitchen, usually something like old Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Mountain, bluesy guitar rock kind of stuff, and the guys there are all in their late teens to early 20s, rocking out to music from my childhood. By choice, not some corporate decision like at Five Guys. Are there a lot of kids who still listen to old rock music, instead of Nickelback or dubstep or rap?
