Posted on 01/25/2023 2:16:55 PM PST by Olog-hai
Convenience store chain 7-Eleven has discovered that homeless people don’t like opera and classical music blaring in their ears as they beg for money, do drugs, or harass the locals. The practice launched in Canada and then San Francisco and several beach locales in Florida followed suit. Now, it’s a mainstream solution for business owners struggling to cope in certain neighborhoods. The immediate problem is that a whole lot of customers who buy Twinkies, lottery tickets, and slushies don’t much like that style of music either. Therein lies the rub.
“Studies have shown that the classical music is annoying. Opera is annoying, and I’m assuming they are correct because it’s working,” said franchise owner Jagat Patel of Austin, TX. Patel has had several complaints about the volume but noted that no police have shown up to tell him to turn it down.
Never underestimate the ingenuity of the capitalist mind: Exploiting a disdain for some music genres, 7-Elevens across the country are practicing this effective dispersal of the homeless — especially in Texas, where people tend to handle their problems without much permission from any government agency. So leave it to the Lone Star folks to use the aggressive and tinny tones of some pieces — like a scherzo from Schubert — to drive the unwashed masses to, say, a local Circle K store playing Barry Manilow’s greatest hits. […]
Neurologists have long touted the benefits of music on the brain. When hearing a pleasant sound, dopamine is released, and mood is enhanced. Everyone knows this. The opposite is also true: Classical music is not everyone’s cup of tea, and when exposed to it, a lot of people avoid souring their pleasure centers by skedaddling. Genius. …
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Chardonnay sales are way up?
“I’ve heard CRT proponents whine that classical music creates a “white space” and sends a signal to BIPOCs that they’re not welcome in a store.”
It is the same idiots who claim classical music was really stolen from black people and the greats were all black.
Bugs Bunny: How about a nice, close shave? / Teach your whiskers to behave. / Lots of lather, lots of soap. / Please hold still, don’t be a dope. / Now we’re ready for the scraping / There’s no use to try escaping. / Yell and scream and rant and rave. / It’s no use, you need a shave!
Gotta love “The Rabbit of Seville”!
I’m sooo sorry!!
My two favorite music channels on SiriusXM are Broadway show tunes and Classical.
Skid Row must be a fave. Which proves the theory wrong. Sebastian Bach was one helluva screaching drunkard!
That would be great! On the 4th I put on Sousa marches and other patriotic songs.
If you close your eyes and listen to the old Bugs Bunny cartoons, a lot of them have classical music as background.
“Kill the Wabbit...” and the Rabbit of Seville.
Don’t forget “Long Haired Hare”, which is a dandy send up of opera.
I like some classical.
Baroque. Everything Baroque.
That’s it. :-)
I read all the way down the thread to here and did not see a single reference to hip-hop. How can you use music and annoying in a sentence and not add hip-hop.
Oh, wait. HH ain’t music.
I’m a big fan of what was known as MOR or perhaps it was known as easy listening... you know Percy Faith, Mantovani, Nelson Riddle, Mancini... Muzack, Elevator music. all that stuff.
Pops always had that music going and every Radio Market had a station. WFOG was big in the Virginia Beach area all the way down to Hatteras.
Paul Simon once said quite a while ago that you knew you made it big when you heard one of your songs on the elevator Muzack.
Wouldn’t matter for me. They drive me insane.
For your listening enjoyment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUpuAvQQrC0
I had an opera fan for an apartment mate for two years.
And I mean fan in the aficionado sense of the word.
A true devotee. :-)
I’m very familiar with opera.
I just don’t like it.
Bruce Willis in a line from The Last Boy Scout:
. . . just once, I would like to hear you scream... in pain...
Willis as Joe Hallenbeck:
Play some rap music.
Baby shark
Probably my favorite episode. A classic for sure!
Or the “It’s a small world” song from Disney.
Crank up the Wagner, and watch everyone trip over each other to escape the area.
(For me, jazz would do the trick.)
Funny how it never occurs to them to wonder WHY they might not be welcome in a store.
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