You know what sets us apart? It's the blasting music, the muffled bass thumping through the steal of the cars when you stop at a red light, and the sound seems to tangibly pulse with the summer heat. Think about it. We - the young, foolish, wild, drastic, individual, adventuring, desperate, ignorant, running, screaming - the next youth generation, we are the only ones who do that. Do you see a mom blasting music, any kind of music, in a mini van? No. Dads going to work, young entrepeneurs in buttoned shirts, middle-aged career-driven women - no one turns up the music when they're driving in their car.
But we do!
And a little bit of it is because we want to be noticed. We want people to look at us when we drive by - plus a lot of us like to sing realllly loud along with the songs. We know all the popular songs on the radio, we know all the words. Especially when summer time rolls in, the loud music becomes almost a social responsibility - it's what young people do. It's also a way of connecting with our peer people, it's a subconscious message; like yep, you do that, I do that too, we like to turn it up so loud that we can't think, and rev the engines, we don't have much to worry about, and we enjoy a lot of what we have, we're young and have got everything to look forward to, so we can sing and blast music as loud as we bloody well please.
Right now, before we get old, we are the people who blast the music in their cars. We are not the people you see walking their dogs on the sidewalks - most of the time that's the parents' thing.
So in conclusion, this summer, please, don't walk your dog. Get in the car and blast it.
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i like to walk my dog
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interesting observations. but im still gonna keep walking my dog. and not blasting my music lol
ReplyDeletelol I can't drive. But my car is waiting...with a kick-ass stereo system and sub woofer!
ReplyDeleteP.S. I don't have a dog
wth is a woofer?
ReplyDeletecoming in with the tech explanation as usual: a sub woofer is a component of a stereo that handles the low frequency sound (bass). to hear all of the music you need to hear the high, mid and low frequency sounds all coming out of specialized speakers for that sound (lows are woofers, mids are regular speakers and the highs are tweeters). Woofers vary in size depending on the application, car woofers are generally larger than ones found in home stereo's because they have to combat road noise and because they are usually sealed off or separated from the cabin of the car in the trunk). :)
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