cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

there's this phenomenon i call "supermarket music," which is a song that you've heard at least 50,000 times but you can't think of a single lyric or note other than the chorus. in fact, it's not even really a song in your mind; it's just a brief, 8-10 second stab that rises above the mingled voices, coughs, yelling children and cymbalesque shopping cart impacts that make up the background noise of a grocery store.

you're there. you aren't even really aware that music is playing. you're looking for soup. and then, suddenly, you're hearing one of the most recognizable pieces of audio in your life. you aren't really sure what the words are. you don't sing along. it's not a "banger." you aren't thrilled that it's on - it's not even really on. it just comes, and goes, and you're at the supermarket.

it could be virtually any 70s-80s soft rock hit. fleetwood mac is a top candidate for sure. but there's no contest: the song is probably summer breeze by seals and crofts.

there is no piece of music in the world that is more mediocre when overheard in a supermarket. it's just a sad, sour peal of indistinct hopelessness. a song heard on a humid, cloudy day, when there's nothing good on broadcast TV and food doesn't taste like anything and you have $43.18 in the bank. and it's only about 4 seconds long. it's a trumpet and a toy piano playing duh duh DEH duh duhhhh, duh duh duh duh dohhhhh. oh, there's a song there. if you put on an 8-track of it, it's fine. serviceable track. but in the supermarket, it's just those few seconds, and they mean that today the meat is going to look grey under the fluorescent lighting, and the car is going to take ten seconds to start


amydentata
@amydentata

your goal is to find the cool supermarket where they play the type o negative cover


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