I was at the Indians game last night. You can't win them all, especially when Scherzer, the Tigers pitcher, really had his stuff. Still, I enjoyed myself. It felt like a summer night in downtown Cleveland and everyone was in good spirits. Surrounded by little leaguers, die-hard fans and girls in short shorts it was a great night in one of my favorite places, the ballpark.
There were these particularly loud and chatty girls behind me. Their constant yakking only paused long enough to sing along to some of that awful music that passes for country these days. It got me to wondering if it was their fault or are they merely unaware.
There's so much great music being created every year. That includes country and evey other genre you can name. Unfortunately what we hear on commercial radio is dreadful for the most part. There are exceptions but most of it is lowest common denominator crap decided upon by programmers afraid to take chances. These songs play consantly on amazingly stagnant playlists that seem to change with the pace of a glacier.
So these girls behind me are pretty much brainwashed right? Their taste can't be that bad. If I could perform an experiment on them, expose them to only good music in a tight rotation would they find this music just as enjoyable?
Or is what Marshall McLuhan said back in the 60s a truth and not an opinion? Are the masses asses?
