To continue the off-topic nature of recent blog posts... Labels: take john tesh...please
Whenever I tune into a radio station like 92.5 JACK-FM ("Toronto's best music mix," one of several similar best music mixes available), I'm reminded of why I hate it when somebody is so overtly trying to target "people like me".
Sure, if you had to target "people like me," I guess you'd try really hard to follow up a song from Green Day with some bad Platinum Blonde. On paper, I like both -- or have, some days, liked both at the same time. It's the "trying to target me" effort on the whole that's bound to fail. Many days, I don't feel like being me... all over again. Or I was never "me." If me means that "old" dude in the Diet Pepsi ads who is advised to "stick to his Diet Pepsi" because it's definitely not time to get wild and crazy with a shag-carpeted van with Whitesnake painted on the side, with "Your Daddy Don't Know" by Toronto pumping out the window.
It's easy to spot one of these train wrecks of a radio station: every 10th song, they'll slip in a song from The Boss. Everyone likes The Boss! Don't they? Hey, nothing against the guy, but I pretty much never want to hear a song by The Boss.
By refusing to be Jack-ified, I guess I'm ruling out hearing some of my very favorite songs, like I Can't Stand Losing You by The Police. But for reasons that should be obvious to any reader, there are far better ways of including what I like, while making sure that I never, ever, ever, again have to listen to The Boss. To say nothing of the commercials for the Pontiac-Buick dealership, or The Keg Steakhouse.
How do these Perfect Music Mix stations stay in business in this day and age? Arggh. The bank of commercials just ended. I'm supposed to want to hear this Ozzie Osbourne tune right now. I'd rather tune into Alice Cooper's syndicated ramblings, albeit sadly overtop of a similar music mix.
Posted by Andrew Goodman
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