People playing music while browsing stores

[Kaleo15]

I was embarrassed for us young black folk.

Who gives a ****?



It's our music. Let's blast that **** *****

It's our store. Get out.

 

[brandon3000]

put on some headphones, be courteous... unless you're walking in public outdoors. that I understand

 

[SC kid]

See dis all the time.
I just ignore it like sumone talking really loud.
Aint no thing but a chicken wing.

 

[Nawzlew]

I was embarrassed for us young black folk.

Who gives a ****?



It's our music. Let's blast that **** *****

It's our store. Get out.

pow pow

 

[you go boy]

i dont get why some people play music on their phone while driving... like you really going to use headphones while driving

 

[hennessy]

Why do people play music in public through a phone?
By Alex Hudson BBC News

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For many, teenagers playing tinny music to each other on public transport on their mobile phones can be intensely irritating. Why do they do it?

With mobile phones in many a teenager's pocket, the rise of sodcasting - best described as playing music through a phone in public - has created a noisy problem for a lot of commuters.

"All you can hear is 'dush, dush, dush, dush'. It's irritating. So many times I end up with a headache," says Tracey King, who has signed up to the Shhh! Scheme set up by bus company Arriva Yorkshire to stop the noise on their services.

"As teenagers, they don't seem to have the capability to think about others. I have heard older women turning round and saying 'will you turn that down?' and sometimes they will… and other times I've heard them with abuse and swearing at other people."

As mayor of London, Ken Livingstone called for the "absolute prohibition on playing music from a mobile system" as far back as in 2006. Young people can now have their zip cards - which allow them free travel in the capital - revoked for "anti-social behaviour", which includes playing loud music.

The issue has even been discussed in the House of Lords. In 2006, the Piped Music and Showing of Television Programmes Bill was presented to Parliament, calling for "the wearing of headphones by persons listening to music in the public areas of hospitals and on public transport" to be made compulsory, although it never made it into law.

So why do people do it? Is it just an act of youthful rebellion?

"I don't think it is intrinsically anti-social, what I would say is that it is a fascinating human phenomenon of marking social territory," says Dr Harry Witchel, author of You Are What You Hear.

"With young people, usually loud music corresponds very strongly to owning the space.

"They are creating a social environment which is suitable for them and their social peers. But for those not in this group - a 50-year-old woman for example - instead of confidence, she'll feel weakness and maybe even impotence as there's nothing that she can do about it."

But hasn't this always been the case? Most people who remember the 80s can remember someone with a boom box perched on one shoulder, pumping out the latest songs to anyone within earshot. Some take this tradition back even further.

"I reckon I was an early sodcaster," says the poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan.

"It was way back in the distant 1970s. As a teenager I was a big fan of the kind of music that made my mother say 'Will you turn that rubbish off?', and my dad hiss 'I wouldn't mind if it had a proper tune.'

"The fact is that I wasn't allowed to listen to [my favourite artists] in the house so I had to listen to them outside using a tape player."

But Dr Witchel says something slightly different was happening back then.

"When people went around with their ghetto blasters, you could argue that it was for the pure pleasure of the music they loved," he says.

"There is no excuse for why you would want to listen to tinny music, except if you were establishing territory. It just sounds rubbish. It must sound rubbish to them."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13749313

I think this article is on point. Sodcasting is about "owning the space" and "creating a social environment which is suitable for them and their social peers."

 

[jayzz]

Bruh I was in line at the BANK and this short ***** with dreads comes in wearing beats around his neck, playing Faneto by Chief Keef...
He knew every word

 

[KingdomFlatbush]

"It's our store. Get out."

Privilege. Check it

 

[cashbanks]

Only an idiot does things like this

 

[SC kid]

Play journey dont stop believin in a wal mart.

People will hire u to babysit and watch their house.

 

[KingdomFlatbush]

Play journey dont stop believin in a wal mart.

People will hire u to babysit and watch their house.

Old men with ponytails will nod approvingly at you

 

[rillo561]

Hate people like this. One the reasons I don't visit malls n stores. Online shopping FTW!!

 

[SC kid]

The problem is people playin horrible music in the presence of a diverse crowd.

Play love and happiness in a wal mart on sunday dudes like

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Go 2 an arbys and play some phil colins

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Mite get a free sandwich

 

[legendairy stinson]

 
If it pisses off white people, I'm all for it

+1

Statements like these is why I rarely go on NT anymore.

 

[adobecs4]

Nobody will miss you, my G.

 

[DadNboujee]

Now that I think about it, when I was in 5th grade (I'm 28 now)

I used to bump bone back in the day, and well



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[quell]

So tasteless. I've always been very mindful of what I play. If I'm in a parking lot or at a light, I'll turn down vulgar music. Everybody doesn't have class. The people that do this are the same people that wear pajamas and tank tops in public with their underwear showing, in other words :there's no getting through to them.

+1. I've never seen or been around anyone playing music in public on there speakerphone, but damn, I would cringe so hard if I ever was around it.

Also how embarrassing to find it funny that you associate with people that do this, that being said we all did incredibly immature stuff when young, just seems like each generation tries to outdo the last

 

[plansb]

I prefer not to bring attention to myself, and respect others when i'm out in public. But thats just me.

 

[af1nike]

Bruh I was in line at the BANK and this short ***** with dreads comes in wearing beats around his neck, playing Faneto by Chief Keef...
He knew every word

That ish bangs

 

[omariwestafari]

saw some girl driving with her beats on smh

 

[youngwolf]

I was embarrassed for us young black folk.

Who gives a ****?



It's our music. Let's blast that **** *****

"It's our store. Get out."

 

[dman14]

Bruh I was in line at the BANK and this short ***** with dreads comes in wearing beats around his neck, playing Faneto by Chief Keef...
He knew every word

That ish bangs

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[T Lo Sweater]

I play big pun mobb deep big L Nas and wu when im at work

Customers come in and hear that ****

 

[albooboo5]

Stay bumping Ja Rule 

 

[celticspride34]

Play journey dont stop believin in a wal mart.

People will hire u to babysit and watch their house.

Old men with ponytails will nod approvingly at you

Truest racial statement ever made on NT...