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Troy
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Troy
Post Number: 393
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 08, 2006 - 04:23 pm: | 
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...or rather why do we have to blast the music during every gathering?
Having been back in Harlem now for about 4 years -- after being away for over 20. There are plenty of improvements but one thing about this community that gets on my nerves is some folks apparent belief that we all want to hear their music or that it is fine to just blast you music out of your car, open window, or mobile boom box.
I know I live a a big city, and I don't expect silence. However why do men, and it is usually men, have to blast music all the time.
It seems if there is more than two of us together someone is blasting music. When did it become a requirement for every picnic to have ultra loud music. Lately the music is not just loud but obscene...
My next door neighbor was blasting music out of his window one afternoon while my daughters and I were hanging out in the backyard. The lyrics went something like this;
I getting some head
gettin gettin some head
I getting some head
gettin gettin some head
..ad infinitum (or so it seemed)
I yelled, "A brother can't even go OUTSIDE without subjecting his daughters to obscenities!" The song was skipped mid stream. My daughters thought the situation was funny. They seem to take pleasure at their old man's irritation with the words in some of the rap music. Now when we hear the song in the street, the oldest will say, "there goes Dad's favorite song"
Sure there are times for loud music; like at a dance party, or a concert, but the concept background music or silence seems alien in our community.
IPODs -- same thing. Many people walk around all day with music blasting from those little white ear buds. Are people ever interested in being alone with their own thoughts? Has loud music replaced conversation?
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Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 336
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 08, 2006 - 05:36 pm: |
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Nice story. You sentiments are on point. Unfortunately, many young people seem to believe they have an unalienable right to play their music at 1000 dbs with a total disregard to anyone within ear shot. I see this kind of thing often. Cars going down the street with vulgar and profane rap blaring and the bass is so loud it jars the windows in your home! And this particular behavior is not restricted to any particular racial group. I see white, Latino and blacks doing it. It doesn't matter.
I recall sitting outside a Star Bucks one evening reading an MCSE cert book. A car pulled up and the music was booming. The lyrics dwelled on meeting a woman at a hotel and the guy rapping was lamenting about how he was going to f%$k a woman and her female friend stupid. I shook my head as the music went on and on as the car waited for the light to turn green. In disgust and annoyance, I finally looked up, and the car was a convertible BMW with four young white female blondes, bobbing and nodding their heads to the music! I just shook my head as they drove off. True story.
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 4800
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 08, 2006 - 05:40 pm: |
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agree, Troy! It's like nowadays the pulse of so many people is syncronized with the throb of music, like an Ipod is a lifeline connecting them with the oxygen necessary to survive. Once in a while people should retreat into the golden sanctuary of silence where they can imagine the sound of one hand clapping, and contemplate the idea of God being the space between heart beats. Give your ears a rest and do your mind a favor. |
Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 343
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 08, 2006 - 09:07 pm: |
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"Give your ears a rest and do your mind a favor."
Outstanding suggestion but figure the odds...! |
Sisg
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Username: Sisg
Post Number: 262
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 08, 2006 - 10:22 pm: |
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I hear you Troy! If it's not the music...everyone wants to be a rapper and for instance they will get on a train and rap all kind of sh!@$% out loud as if we are interested..i think one of these days ima lose my mind and go off on somebody like Michael Douglas did on "Falling Down"...i swear.."ima about to lose my head, up in here, up in here!" SHUTTHEF%$%^^up! now thats what i want to say..and i'm no youngun but that's on the real. |
Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 2938
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 08, 2006 - 11:01 pm: |
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I LOVEDED Michael Douglas in "Falling Down"! That was my movie!! Homeboy went off on errr-body--that was the shit! |
Femrenoir
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Username: Femrenoir
Post Number: 75
Registered: 05-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 09, 2006 - 02:31 am: |
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In southern Cal, we've got the Mexican folk music competing with the rap. Actually, it has gotten quieter in the past year. Maybe because I call the cops on errr-body after 10pm! |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 4972
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 09, 2006 - 10:46 am: |
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Troy,
Music is for many a form of self-medication or narcotic. They use it to achieve and/or maintain some desired mental and emotional state or to block out an unfavorable state.
And some guys use loud music to assault and intrude upon the rest of us: You mofos better recognize how big & bad I am!!
One day I'm going to invent a device that can within, say, a 500 ft range disable car stereos that are playing above a certain decibel. I figure if I can do that baby right, I might score one of those MacArthur Foundation Genius Awards. |
Doberman23
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Username: Doberman23
Post Number: 446
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 - 06:17 am: |
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that's only young people who do that for the most part, i too used to blast my music super loud at one point in time myself. i had a volkswagon rabbit and a big ass house speaker in the back ... i used to love driving around seeing how many heads i could turn. anyways it's a youthful thing to do, i don't do it now ... especially cuz my girl is always turning my music down low so she can try to talk over it ... i fond myself listening to alot of talk radio now ... and because i have a lease and if i turned it in without the backseat i'd be stuck with this exscape for the next 8 years.
the only thing i really hate (which i only see black folks do) is when assholes stop in front of me to talk to someone else on the opposite side of the road, which prevents me from advancing forward... because there talking about ol' jimmy who used to live on 7 mile or something else that i'm forced to hear about. > |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 395
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 01:44 pm: |
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Doberman23, Yeah I hear you about the youth thing. My tastes minic yours But I'm talking about grown men doing this.
There are really two different issues, (1) folks constantly listening to music and (2) blasting music in public.
(1) Probably is probably the "self-medication or narcotic" thing tha ABM refered to
(2) Is a lack of maturity (mental age) and ignorance. Something I get to observe in far too often lately. This seems to be tied to class.
So while I understand a young person blasting music (I admit I did it too, but I knew it was wrong and someone, usually Mom, gave me greif for it). I see far too many adult men doing this now today.
Ntfs_encryption, as an aside. if there is one thing I really dislike about Rap music is that is given license to white people to use the N word and there is nothing I can reasonably say about it.
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Moonsigns
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Username: Moonsigns
Post Number: 1238
Registered: 07-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 03:27 pm: |
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Troy,
Did your neighbor respond? |
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