A Playful Misconception, A Childhood's Dream

Driving back from work last night, I didn’t have any cds to play in the car and had to resort to the radio, something of a rarity. (And the reason is explained below.)

In one of the English programmes, two deejayas were as usual babbling about, talking too much when they really shouldn’t - they just don’t realise how easily they lose their listeners. Their conversations are usually dragged on and on. A point made five minutes ago is being reiterated over and over again for the next five minutes that it just becomes pointless and an overkill. 

And while attempting to give examples on a topic at hand, they are usually able to only provide one; the second one being similar enough to the first that shouldn’t even be mentioned; or they end with phrases that goes like this: and things like that.

Especially when there are more than one deejay and they are enjoying a conversation with each other, they usually don’t realise listeners may not care about the topic in discussion. But they can talk for 10 minutes straight and they’ll be laughing with each other while I’m left disgusted and disinterested. 

But who am I to talk? They have plenty of supporters out there who either are clueless or tasteless or care-less, and makes every effort to communicate with the deejays.

So here’s what happened last night. One listener texted in asking the opinions of the two deejays on duty what they thought of the movie Chuck And Larry. First deejay responded she hasn’t watched it and then went on to say that it may not be showing in the cinemas anymore. The second deejay concurred, saying the movie may probably be in its final week of showing. But in actual fact, the movie was just released 2 friggin’ days ago. 

The deejays were so lost that they couldn’t admit that they were unknowledgeable. Nobody expects them to know everything. They are deejays, not movie critics. That’s one of many departments that they should feel comfortable in not knowing.

On the other hand, when it comes to music, that’s something they ought to educate themselves in and be up-to-date. For example, the artist Rihanna’s name is pronounced as Ree-Anna and not Ri-Hanna. But all the deejays here seem to use the latter pronunciation. How oblivious can they be? And Rihanna is one of the most popular in the  music scene right now and her name is mentioned everywhere (not that I share the same sentiments with the general masses).

Everyone should take pride in getting to know their work, not indulge themselves in the accustomed complacency that has propagated the country.