What music should we listen to?

The six of us temps gathered together for six weeks to do a mundane chore were offered some music yesterday. The person in charge put on some very mild, ennervating, generic classical music. Today, he asked if we had liked it... I said I did not: It put me to sleep. Did he have anything a bit more energetic, like Vivaldi or something? He asked if a Baroque channel was OK; I said sure!

We listened to Baroque for a couple of hours. Then the girl next to me whispered to him: "Can we hear something with voices?" He put on some Choral and asked if it was OK: Me and one other guy: "Please, no!" Then a couple of other people asked for "contemporary with voices." (Apparently the lack of voices had been getting to some people!) The first "contemporary" song that came on, I didn't recognize as Pink, it was so generic (I guess it was latter-day Pink). With this song, the boss asked: "Is this OK?" I blurted out, "This is putting me to sleep more than yesterday's music!" Another woman then said, "I LIKED what was on yesterday---it was peaceful and relaxing!" And the group's big bull dyke (who, BTW, has come in late every day) then said, "Pink is a genius vocalist. This song is beautiful." (Me: I wanted to say, "Then let's hear the REAL genius Pink: "Get the Party Started" --- but I didn't.) And then a smart-ass guy said, re me: "She wants to hear death metal!" Har-har.

We ended up listening to the soft-rock vocals for an hour, then silence for the last half-hour.

God, glad we weren't on a jury together!

I ended the day thinking, "Geez, I'm being obnoxious and opinionated again!" What's been drilled into my head for the past billion years. I'm bored with that shit, but still influenced by it.

In the case of this particular job, we were all told at the beginning not to talk amongst ourselves because we might make mistakes in our work. If the goal is to focus on our task, then I think that generic soft-rock songs with lyrics are as bad as talking amongst ourselves! I don't want to be thinking about Pink (early vs. late), or about how many times I've heard "Every Breath You Take," and did I put it on a mix tape in the late '80s... And I wouldn't have said anything... but I was ASKED!! :)