Everybody by Stabilo
Lyrics: http://www.onlylyrics.com/read.php?id=20022
After the class the other week on the death of media, I was driving, and herd this song, which I have not heard in quite a while. It originally being released in 2001, it encompasses the ideas of how media and everyday things are being taken for granted. “Doesn’t anybody know what a radio’s for” is the 2nd line of the song and it hits me one of the hardest. Even just by reading this blog, I talk about buying an MP3 player, I own CDs, and claim I love music, but yet I don’t listen to the radio. This is tough because my dad used to be part of the Radio Marketing Bureau of Canada, and would always encourage us to listen, even to the commercials. And just the other week, my computer’s external harddrive broke, leaving me with no music at all. I turned on the radio for the first time in a long while. People do not listen to the radio anymore, like my grandparents did, we want to mediate our own listening. It is free, but still, no one wants to have to listen to the long and unimportant ads they play.
This song depicts the death of media and how no one does anything just to do it anymore. We have left or are leaving the general elements of life behind, and it is a cry for people to maybe not make a drastic move, but simply to acknowledge this is happening. “Doesn’t anybody know, doesn’t anybody know?”
You can listen to the song at http://www.stabilomusic.com/. There are 2 versions of the song, so take your pick.
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I think that this is a perfect example of how this course is causing the class to stand back and realize the influence of media and technological advancement in today's world. If you had not been participating in this class, would you have taken the time to interpret the words of Stabilo's song? On a minor scale, this demonstrates why it is becoming important to study the culture of media.
Laura
i just watched woody allen's beautiful elegiac/nostalgic film radio days. the film's narrator (someone not unlike woody allen) recounts his upbringing in 1940s rockaway, new york. his story is inextricably tied to the radio and its influence not only him as a child, but also on his family, his neighbours, and his culture. this was the golden age of radio and, as the narrator mournfully observes, that era (and its memories) are slowly vanishing.
in thinking about your post, it occurs to me that podcasting has remediated radio. how does podcasting serve as the new radio? how does this change (if at all) our relationship to radio?
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