Friends, I have a fear.
You know those people who, despite the clear use of headphones, still somehow manage to broadcast their music to everyone around them?
I'm afraid I'm one of them.
Now, I have no real reason to believe that I'm one of those people. I don't listen to my music at a particularly high volume, and no one has ever told me that they can hear what is supposed to be my own personal life soundtrack. But still, I worry. Especially when I hear others' music. Doubly especially now that I just bought new headphones (RIP white earbuds that came with my iTouch). Are these new headphones the kind that fail to keep the music confined to just MY ears? I have no idea.
The thing is, while I love my music and am not ashamed to admit to the wonderful people in my life about all the wealth of embarrassing material on my iPod, this isn't something I necessarily want random strangers to know.
99% of the time I listen to my music on shuffle. For whatever reason I never seemed to be able to get into playlists, mostly because I'd get bored of them too quickly. This means that at any given moment during my daily subway commute, I could be rocking out to more commonly accepted tunes like Paul Simon, Lady Gaga, or Green Day.
However, I could also be listening to "Uncle Fucker" from the South Park movie, the opening number from Bring It On (We cheer and we lead! We act like we're on speed! Hate us 'cause we're beautiful well we don't like you either!), Sandstorm by Darude (if you don't know what this is off the top of your head, Youtube it and have your subsequent "Oh yeaaah this song from high school" moment), or "Seize the Day" from Newsies.
Okay, I can't even pretend to be ashamed about that last one. That song is so uplifting! And..Newsies! Adorable.
This fear of my music being overheard is probably irrational. But I still worry. And will continue to do so.
6 comments:
I share EXACTLY the same fear. For real.
I was fine until you mentioned the opening number from Bring It On. Now I have to go download that.
Never be ashamed of "Newsies."
NEVER.
The Newsies? Must...not...judge...ah what the hell. I'll judge away.
Oh my gosh I'm like that in an elevator. I was listening to music on my way up to work, thinking no one could hear me until a guy on my floor who was with me in the elevator asked how I liked that Journey song. doh!
My fear is that as soon as I put my headphones on I'll, for whatever reason, start breathing really heavily. I'd even rather be the jerk whose music everyone can hear than the freak panting creepily. So then I try to breathe really shallow, and that just makes it so much worse.
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