Disney songs in the office

[ffsrealy]

I’m in a grump this morning anyway but oh my god. Disney songs on all morning and I just can’t deal with it. WIBU to turn them off and tell the person playing them to grow up? We’re an office of adults!

I’ve unplugged the bastard google home thing that’s playing them! Bloody racket

I'm not into Disney and would also not be thrilled at having to listen to Disney songs, but I also cringe at people who dismiss anything that has any commercial success as being meaningless.Music/cinema/literature snobbery is so tiresome.

Disney films are basically animated musicals. Songs in musicals absolutely do mean something - they're part of the story and part of the characters. I don't have kids and I'm not any kind of Disney fan, but the films have strong stories, memorable characters and most of the songs - certainly the well-known ones - are a meaningful part of the narrative. And they clearly evoke emotional responses and have significance for a lot of people, for a lot of reasons.

So anyway - yeah, I'd find it irritating if I had to listen to Let It Go and A Whole New World on a loop all day too, but I wouldn't be a dick about it.

So are gregorian chants but I wouldn't subject my work colleagues to them.

I have Sonos noise reducing headphones. Work a treat. It’s actually our office with our employees in it- so I don’t want to come across as a twat. They can listen to talk sport in peace!

Ugh, the office radio, we used to have Heart on in our office, the same songs all the bloody time and Pink, so much Pink. I now can't listen to Pink. I used to find it soul destroying, genuinely would make my working day a misery. I complained, and it was sometimes changed to a different station or turned off when they all went out to lunch, best hour of the day. I actually ended up on a desk next to where it was plugged in and used to turn off the annoying adverts and the odd song! The looks I used to get! I look back to those days and still shudder at the the memories of that bloody radio.

I've got K-Pop Demon Hunters blasting while I WFH - it's Christmas and I refuse to listen to fucking Slade.

I can’t bear music of any type in the office. I’d have to be using very heavy duty noise cancelling headphones.

Yep I'd make a visual protest by putting in my earphones and listening to a podcast or whatever.

What does which office have to do with it?!

Funnily enough we all have different tastes in music, and for some people it's not 'just music'. Music is so incredibly widely varied, what do you mean by 'just music'?. Would you like to listen to just male voice choirs all day, Sex Pistols, Abba, Beethoven, Cajun music?! That's why a variety is best.

I’d suggest something like carols if they want Christmassy.

This. I fucking hate Disney. YAdefinitelyNBU, OP.

I think it’s unfair to talk about Disney as a cult. I’m not particularly a Disney fan but let’s face it theyve produced some bangers.

I also think it’s daft to complain that Disney songs are made just to make money. So what? Life would be pretty dull and difficult if people didn’t do stuff to make money.

Personally I think it's much more "tragic" to judge people based solely on what music they enjoy.

Personally I can’t get worked up about small things like this any more in life. Sure the big things but don’t sweat the small stuff

What's wrong with feeling something about an imaginary world? Do you not enjoy any fiction?

LOL Not really a 'Disney person' as an adult. I mean, I loved it as a child and don't mind the occasional Disney song now, but I haven't watched a Disney film for decades. However, the suggestion that their music is somehow expertly crafted to be catchy purely in an effort to rake in the money (unlike any other music, apparently) is making me laugh. They want to make memorable music, yes, exactly like most people do who write music.

I do think people should be considerate when playing music for a captive audience, though. If they've been playing one type of thing for an hour or so, it's perfectly fine to diplomatically suggest switching to something different for a while. But there's no need to be impolite in your phrasing.

It's not just the music though, is it? As @JacquesHarlow said, it's it's the clothes, the house decor, the tattoos....the rooting of a whole identity based on someone else's imagination.

I guess I just can't imagine caring that much about what another adult does with their time and money - especially not to the point of sneering at them and insulting them.

YABU to say that people who like Disney songs need to “grow up”.

In a communal office there either needs to be no music or a generic radio station. It would drive me absolutely batshit having Disney songs forced on me at work. Nothing wrong with liking Disney as long as its a normal amount.

Then you have never heard the gregorian version of wonderwall or Boulevard Of Broken Dreams.

Are people singing along because that would be the annoying part for me.

We were having the “proper music” debate at work and my contribution was that a good guitar or drum solo in the middle was a must. We’d just heard Hotel California on the radio and the guitar solo makes it a great song imo.

I wouldn't call myself a 'Disney Person' but I do like some of the films (Tangled is awesome) and some of the songs are brilliant.

What I dislike, a lot, are adults who sneer at other adults for liking 'kids' films' or 'kids' books'. I write children's and YA fiction. If people who loved stories for kids didn't write them, there wouldn't be any. And that would be a shame. I actually feel a bit sorry for people who are so relentlessly 'adult' that they can't embrace that younger side of themselves anymore.

(And I'm shuddering imagining the only children's fiction being written by adults who didn't love it for its own sake. I used to work at a literary agency and believe me, you could spot those manuscripts a mile off. They were...not good.)

No. Just no. I would be running around, firing staples, throwing glue sticks, pens and anything else I could find, at whoever decided that was a good idea. Then I would be throwing their packed lunches, mines pies and myself out of the nearest window 😆