The price they pay is having me or the conductor telling them to knock it off. Public transport is uncomfortable enough without having to listen to their shitty music selection.
Maybe the onus shouldn't be on people to request the music be turned off, but on people not blasting loud music in public nature spaces in the first place?
This is just the kid on the bus/train playing music on his phone speaker. Wear headphones or play the music at a noise/distance that doesn't disturb others.
It happens in London too. It's just bad manners to sit and loudly play your poor taste in music out loud on a bus or train rather than on headphones. It's not limited to any particular racial group though; it's usually just young men.
I sometimes listen to music, through headphones, when I'm travelling on my own on a train. Since I regularly make the same journey, it can get a little boring. I'm not always in the mood for work and I don't always carry a book/magazine with me; music is an excellent alternative. I wouldn't dream of playing that music out loud, inflicting it upon everyone else.
That's the boring explanation. It may lack the keen social commentary that the article speculates on, but it happens to be true.
This has also happened at train stations in Melbourne. The music of choice is usually classical. Anecdotally I haven't noticed any specific change in behaviour around the music, but it did and still continues to sound like a good idea to me.
Exactly. When the train really gets rolling, us humans shouldn't eschew the value of being able to interact with the intelligences. For such quaint problems we'll have, it probably costs close to 0 effort to answer a question or two.
I'm picturing something like as an intreraction I'd like to have:
"Hey, do you mind listening to this song I made? I want to play it live, but am curious if there's any spots with frequencies that will be downright dangerous when played live at 100-110dB. I'm also curious if there's any spots that traditionally have been HATED by audiences, that I'm not aware of."
"Yeah, the song's pretty good! You do a weird thing in the middle with an A7 chord. It might not go over the best, but it's your call. The waves at 21k Hz need to go though. Those WILL damage someones ears."
"Ok, thanks a lot. By the way, if you need anything from me; just ask."
It's disgraceful to use such a device that deliberately targets the young. I can hear it and it's a annoying as shit and I'm 32. AFAIK they have now been thankfully been banned in the UK/Ireland.
In London, TFL has found the same effect can be hard without some discrimination by playing classical music.
We call them "DJs without headphones" in Poland. They're [1] obnoxious in public transport. Now, I often considered speaking up, but figured out that if they're such a retard to do this, they probably won't listen and it could end up badly.
[1] Or maybe had been, seems they're on decline. Albeit when powerful BT speakers were all the rage (like JBL Flip), they were overused in public spaces as well.
Not just teenagers and homeless people, but anyone around. Its more about the volume than the type of music played. They used to do the same thing at the train station. It’s very annoying, but it works.
If you get on a packed morning commuter train and start playing music on a boombox, you're not breaking any laws and nobody can stop you. Nevertheless, anybody with their head screwed on is going to think you are acting like a jackass.
I am viscerally repulsed by public music playing in places where I can't reasonably escape. The absolute worst that I'm frequently stuck with is busking in NYC subway cars/stations. The music is usually terrible, although sometimes good, and on rare occasions great, but I don't think it should be allowed at all.
I don't have as much of a problem with street-corner busking, in large part because it can be avoided, but even that drives me nuts when I can't get away from it (outside a place I work, for example).
I love music, and when I'm in the mood, I'll seek out a street performance. City parks are great for this, and I think they're an appropriate venue. A rail car is not even remotely appropriate, and a subway station during your unavoidable morning commute, with loud brass instruments and a shitty PA system, echoing off the walls, ought to be a crime.
Sure, although I don't consider music a necessity of life.
I find the smell of certain things, like old cooked broccoli or kale, to make me want to vomit. But if a passenger on the train was eating it, I don't think it would disturb me nearly as much as endless music that interrupts my concentration. I don't see how these are in the same boat, even though the music is merely annoying and the smell of putrid greens makes me want to vomit.
In Newcastle (UK) they went through a period of playing classical music in the Metro stations for the same reason. They stopped doing it after about 6 months; I assume inconclusive results (which is a shame, given that it had the added benefit of being very pleasant).
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