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Kind of a bourgeois question but whatever. People do actually listen to these radio stations. They will actively seek out radio stations that really do just play the same five or ten rock hits from the seventies, maybe mixed with some modern garbage. Why do they do this? What is going through their minds on the conscious and unconscious levels?

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[–] TheoryofChange@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

So I'm in a work vehicle with someone I don't know very well. The local top 40 pop and country stations suck. He doesn't want to listen to a foreign language, so the Spanish station that plays mariachi bangers is out. I don't really want to listen to classical music. So we put on the dad rock station, not because it excites either of us but because it is tolerable to both of us. We can both kinda recognize the melodies. I think the classic rock stations just are bland in a manner that makes them in offensive at times