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Thumping techno music at every possible opportunity

33 replies

musicmomma · 05/05/2018 17:28

Just thought I'd ask other people's opinion on this subject.

Does it annoy anyone else that there always seems to be thumping dance music at everything?

Fun fair in the park; bouncy castles and face painting for children but ALSO REALLY LOUD DANCE MUSIC

shopping in Asda REALLY LOUD KANYE WEST PLAYING ALL THE WAY ROUND

Neighbours 1 year old birthday party MEGA LOUD DANCE MUSIC

fireworks MEGA LOUD.... OK you get it.

I wouldn't mind it if it was cheesy hits or like Ed sheerhan or something crap... But you know, why is it always like adult night club music all. The. Time?

OP posts:
araiwa · 05/05/2018 17:30

I bet the fireworks are bright and colourful too. The cheek

iklboo · 05/05/2018 17:33

It could be worse. The travelling fair parked opposite our house when I was a kid played Kelly Marie's 'Feels Like I'm In Love' non stop all day (10am to 10pm) every day for SIX WEEKS. I still twitch when I hear it.

Lottapianos · 05/05/2018 17:33

It gets on my nerves too OP. I think there's too much background music at too loud a volume in general in public. I know that makes me sound about 200 years old but my DP has a hearing impairment and he really struggles in noisy environments. You expect it at a gig or whatever but not in a restaurant or shopping centre Confused

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 05/05/2018 17:34

Hell is other people's music.

Stopthatalreadyok · 05/05/2018 17:34

I love fireworks! Just hate having to listen to 50 cent at full whack while trying to enjoy them

Stopthatalreadyok · 05/05/2018 17:39

I think it probably makes me sound like a grumpy old man (which I am) (metaphorically as I am female) I love music. I'm a music teacher. I'm a session musician, I'm in a punk band, I have 2 degrees in music blah blah but when the local cheerleading group... Thing...you know where they twirl the batons? Had a do in the recreation field outside our house it was really reallt loud Rihanna all day, for like 2 stalls and about 50 people. So unnecessary.

WinnersClub · 05/05/2018 17:44

I hear you OP. I just got back from a mobile phone repair shop, you know those ones where they sell all manner of mobile phone assessories knock of cables etc anyway, I couldn't concentrate on what the guy was saying with the extremely loud music playing with a continuous stream of F-you, F-you momma,F-your papa on and on and on, I couldn't believe what i was hearing. I kept wanting to say something but continued to bite my tongue. Their shop their music i suppose if thats what gets them through the day. I did feel like my delicate hearing had been assaulted after I left though.

BamBamIsALittleShit · 05/05/2018 17:48

If it was Ed sheeran everywhere I went I'd shoot myself.

elderflowerandrose · 05/05/2018 17:54

Given the proven benefits of sdficsl music to a human being mental health and the calming of emotions I would like the civilising influence of classical music instead. Better for children, better for the elderly. Calming for us

elderflowerandrose · 05/05/2018 17:54

Classical

BoiledFrog · 05/05/2018 17:58

Try working somewhere retail, the music is one of the worst parts. I worked at maccys for a year. Get PTSD flashbacks when I hear certain songs Sad

QueenOfIce · 05/05/2018 17:59

Yes! I absolutely hate it that restaurants play banging music really loudly. It's as if they don't want folk to talk to each other.

Why must my ears be assaulted everywhere I go these days? It doesn't add to the ambience it's just fucking annoying and far too loud.

What about those who are autistic and find loud noise painful or overwhelming, should we just ignore them?

Stopthatalreadyok · 05/05/2018 18:04

Ahhh so glad it's not just me.

And yes! There are so many benefits of listening to music! I always wanted to be a music therapist, and have several friends who are so why not put on some classical music? Some folk? Some 70s disco (a fave of mine lol) and have it at a normal volume? Its the LOUDNESS and the SMACKING MY BITCH UP IN DA CLUB type stuff that makes me rage.

Just to be clear, not a sheerhan fan either but at least his stuff is just inoffensive blah music, you know?

IronMansIronButt · 05/05/2018 18:04

It doesn't annoy me because it doesn't happen, as far as I can see.

Stopthatalreadyok · 05/05/2018 18:22

Me and the other posters are making it up then, I guess

bookmum08 · 05/05/2018 18:38

Yes. I hate this. Does my head in. I could probably have written the OP word for word. My 9 year old daughter is in the beginning stages of being diagnosed with Sensory Processing Disorder and/or ASD and I would definitely say at lot of her issues (meltdowns, sleep disorders, anxiety etc) stems from this overly loud world we live in. As I write this now I can hear the flat two floors below playing their crappy music. I shouldn't be able to hear it two bloody floors up - why is music/TV equipment even made with volumes that go so high. Just turn it down world. Turn it frigging down.

Backingvocals · 05/05/2018 18:40

Yes hate this. It even happens in shops that are not aimed at young customers. It’s fair enough in Top Shop but it seems to be everywhere even if the clientele is older. I changed hairdressers on the basis of their hideous techno music for three hours. I think it was for the hairdressers (in their twenties) rather than the customers (mainly 30s and 40s).

Glitteryfrog · 05/05/2018 18:44

If it was actual techno I'd be much happier...rather than shitty commercial club dance stuff.
Calvin Harris ain't techno...

bookmum08 · 05/05/2018 18:47

The Shopping Centre in my in-laws town does an 'autistic friendly' hour once a month on Sundays where there is no music playing and includes things like those ride on kiddy rides being switched off. It is wonderful. The place feels so calm. Really nice.

Lottapianos · 05/05/2018 18:48

'Just turn it down world. Turn it frigging down.'
Yep. And stop treating the entire world like your own living room. I was sitting in a public place today and there were a pair of twerps blaring music out of their phones. No one wants to hear your shitty music. Turn it off!

Andrewofgg · 05/05/2018 18:49

WinnersClub: I once told the kid in the phone shop (where I was the only customer) that if he did not turn the music off, not down but o-f-f off, I would take my business and his commission elsewhere. He did.

ScreamingValenta · 05/05/2018 18:53

Andrewofgg Good for you! I'm another who hates this phenomenon.

ALongHardWinter · 05/05/2018 19:13

The thing that really annoys me is thumpingly loud car stereos. For some reason,the warm weather seems to bring them out in their hordes and it's pissing me right off. I live in a second floor flat above some shops,so multiple times a day there's a twat in his (and it's invariably a man) souped-up cock-mobile,with the bass turned up to maximum. I'm not joking when I say that it often makes my front door vibrate,which is saying something,considering I'm 2 floors up.

Lottapianos · 05/05/2018 19:20

Well done Andrew! Too many of us, me very much included, are scared of standing up to these people,so they get away with it and it becomes tolerated

Nettleskeins · 05/05/2018 19:27

I went to B & Q's garden section recently. The horrendous loud "B & Q musak" in house radio playing, and the poor assistant said she was longing to turn it down but wasn't allowed (must be to do with the adverts). It put me off browsing. I complained at the main desk and said that people who buy plants DON@T LIKE LOUD MUSIC, by all means have in the rest of the storeHmm they looked at me as if I was deranged