Musical Merriment
Published 18 years, 10 months pastI often wonder how much effort goes into picking the music played in public spaces. Do the people who assemble these societal soundtracks just pick their favorites, or a random assortment of whatever they can find, or is there an enormous amount of thought and effort and psychological analysis put into the selection?
And if there is, in fact, a lot of thought put into the process, then who in the name of Bob thought it was a good idea to have the song “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” played through the speakers at the Cleveland airport? And then, half an hour later, “Sunday Bloody Sunday”—on a Sunday?
I thought it was hilarious, but there are those who are already so stressed about flying that they’d probably verge on having a coronary.