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[-] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

The only problem I have with old songs, I work retail. The Muzak system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak) repeats the same songs multiple times a day.

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Me as a kid: Why do they only play old people music in stores?

Me recently: Hey I remember this! I love this song! No, wait-

[-] ptu@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

I have noticed they play some banging tunes at my local grocery store

[-] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

"because old people run them"

[-] protist@mander.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

Dude. I worked retail back in the aughts, and when I go in stores today, I still hear many of the same songs from back then

[-] limelight79@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

There are different channels. The stores you're going into are playing that music by choice, often to cater to specific demographics. You wouldn't expect, say, a skateboard shop to play classical, just as you wouldn't expect a greeting card store to play death metal. I remember when the hardware store I worked in switched from instrumental to music with lyrics.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

I'm mostly referring to clothes stores

[-] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Ugh, I've always hated the lyric free versions of songs that played in the JC Penny (?) clothing section my mother used to drag me to.

[-] Xopher@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

I would happily shop at a greeting card store that played death metal — and I don't even like death metal.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I thought Imagine Dragons was a band I'd never heard until I checked out some of their songs and realized I've actually heard them a million times ... always in grocery stores shopping at night.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
[-] ech@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Huh, that's a really interesting collection. Thanks for the link!

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

lol

At least when I worked retail it was at chocolate world, so just candy related songs (or Xmas), and then macys, so poppier than I’d normally listen to (and again, Xmas)

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