Rant on Repetitive Radio (Poem)
Reader excuse me while I rant and rave
About what I hear on the radio waves
Day after day of the same single station
I hear the same songs in mixed up repetition
Switch up channels but the genre is the same
Hearing the same songs, I begin to inflame
I cannot find the really great stations
The ones with very little reiteration
They've taken them away or changed them up
I say throw in the towel I'm giving up!
Too many stations play all the same songs
Too many in one genre is just plain wrong
Then the next most baffling thing of all
Is how the listeners themselves don't cry or squall
Are there not others who are just like me
Sick of hearing each song monotonously?
Alas I fear that I am alone in opinion
For the request lines seem to answer my question
Listeners call in and choose which songs to play
And they ask for songs that we'd hear anyway!
Oh how I wish I could grab the requesters
Slap on handcuffs and have them sequestered
You idiots I scream don't ask for the same
Don't you realize that's just totally lame?
Such a golden moment should not go to waste
Do not make your selections with such haste
Ask for something we've not heard in a while
Something older or with a different style
Such idiocy dooms me to be stuck in a quandary
Going round and round like a load of dirty laundry
Never to find a way out of the awful repetition
No matter what device, no matter what station.
Published by Allana Calhoun
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7 Comments
Post a CommentYears ago, I could turn on the radio and leave it on for hours if I wanted. I can't do that anymore; there are too many songs and recording artists that would send me running to change the station.
My college radio station had a strict rule about rotation, and they couldn't even play two things from the same album within a certain timeframe. It was maddening if you wanted to hear a song again, but it really did work well.
End up playing music on the TV at times - never enough of the songs I love, too much of the ones I do not love, lol
Good job on this Laura Everly
This is why I listen to listener-supported Christian stations. No commercials, no repetitiveness - just music :) love it, cheers ;)
Get Sirius XM radio and you won't have that problem!
I love it! I couldn't have said it better! This is so true!!!!!!!!
Well said, so many stations play the same songs over and over.