Posted on 04/07/2011 7:40:01 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Classical music still effective at dispersing loitering teens
April 4, 2011 | 9:00am
With all sorts of the funding cuts hitting orchestras during the recent recession, there is still one aspect of classical music that local governments find valuable -- the music's unfailing ability to disperse loitering teenagers from public areas.
Whether its Handel piped into New York's Port Authority or Tchaikovsky at a public library in London, the sound of classical music is apparently so repellent to teenagers that it sends them scurrying away like frightened mice. Private institutions also find it useful: chains such as McDonald's and 7-Eleven, not to mention countless shopping malls around the world, have relied on classical music to shoo away potentially troublesome kids.
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Excellent! I do the same thing - I just love their confusion.
But I thought the cello was a favorite of rappers, I saw an
album the other day with “Yo, Yo Momma” or something like
that on it.
I do something similar when I hear that *rap music...except my music of choice is Muse. I crank up something like ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ or the riffs from ‘Assassin’ and it gets their attention...especially when they notice that I’m a rather demure-looking 38 y.o. mother of four.
(For anyone who is not familiar w/Muse, they are a British rock trio that’s been around since the late 90s. They won a Grammy for their album ‘The Resistance’ this year—and I don’t even think that’s some of their best work, I prefer ‘Absolution’ or ‘Black Holes and Revelations’. But like I say, any Muse is good Muse, LOL)
I do love classical music though. Maybe I’ll try going that route sometime...
But your daughter and her friends wouldn’t be loitering. They have lives and probably (just guessing here) don’t have the time or the inclination for loitering. If they were in a mall they’d be shopping, and when they were through shopping they’d move on, most likely to home. Congrats to her.
HCM: Does Muse bear any sound resemblance to Moby?
I used to have a little POC car for driving to work that would backfire loudly whenever I revved it up and let off the gas. Whenever somebody with loud offensive music got next to me, guess what I did? It was pretty loud, too; a couple of blast usually offended the offender. At the next red light, they would never come near me. Heh he he!
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LOL! This was being used to drive away loiterers thirty years ago! It works!
Classical music is great for driving away bums! If it doesn’t, put on some BOB WILLS and THE TEXAS PLAYBOYS! That will work (Except on me)!
Heh heh!
I love classical in general, but opera can be used to shoo me away.
Thanks - yes you are absolutely correct. I wanted to point out not all young people dislike classical music. I wasted a lot of time as a youth, which I regret. My wife did not - and that’s where our children get their musical genes from. We both make sure that their schoolwork is up to snuff.
Kids crave structure and discipline. They also need real achievement to gain a positive self image. Kids are smart - they know who is good, who is bad, when someone has skill in something, and they compare.
Just telling them “you are special” is at best worthless, at worst, it teaches them that feel-good lies are acceptable, and clouds their judgement.
Given the penchant for the younger crowd to listen to rap and the likes of Lady Gaga, classical music probably causes brain overload.
For those with a real eclectic taste try the music of old Opera like Henrico Caruso or even Luciano Pavorotti. Dem yutes will scatter like cockroaches hit with lights.
LOL I think that was a joke, right?
Here’s my wish for a secret weapon to destroy the sound systems of auto’s blasting cRap noise posing as music. Just point the device in its direction and the super sonic reverse sine wave traces the sound to its source and destroys the speakers via reverse signal overload. Now if I can only invent such a weapon— it would be put to good use I promise that.
Muse has the awesomest bass player that ever plucked a 4-string. I’ve watched the video for ‘Hysteria’ over and over and I still can’t quite follow his fingers on the fret board.
How many kids today would recognize "the Lone Ranger" (i.e. Rossini) Tchaikovsky, Liszt or Wagner? We knew them all.
Sing with me now: "O Bwunhilda....you are so wuuuuv-wy"
"Eh, what's up, Doc? Who...? Franz Liszt? Never heard of him... Wrong number."
When I watch the insipid, PC cartoons today, like "Dora the Explorer" - they make me want to puke.
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