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I work out in the gym every morning. As such with many gyms they play "pick me up" techno-dance-pop music over the PA system. Usually I don't hear it over the machines. But when I'm in the changing room I can. I find myself thinking as I hear most of it:
" God this is stupid!"

It seems that every other song is a carbon copy of the other. The exact same sound effects, style of singing, and of course with most of the techno music, that sort of wind-up sound used so often with a brief pause before the music goes into a sort of trance pattern.

When I was a kid I promised myself to always listen to new music and never turn into some crabby old person who hates the stuff. Now- granted I still listen to a lot of new music. I like music of all kinds: Country, Americana, Techno, Pop, Symphony, and so on. But a lot of the top-40 pop music pieces I find hardly bearable.