Top 40 Music

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by Shayla Paul

I never thought there would be a day when I would listen to top 40 music, but that day came at an odd time in my life. I honestly didn’t have a choice in the matter. I grew up listening to anything but top 40, and I thought I had avoided it all the way around. I never liked it, and perhaps that was due to the nature of the music that was on the charts in the early eighties when I was just turning ten. I never liked it, and that shaped my music choices for years to come.

I was in my mid-twenties before I listened to top 40 music. I had a data entry job, and we were allowed to listen to headphones while we worked. I got some and took them in on my very first day, and was disappointed to find that they only stations I could pick up played top 40 music. I could have listened to CDs, but the CD player went through an entire set of batteries in just one day. I just couldn’t afford to buy that many batteries. At that time, the thought of buying rechargeable batteries had not crossed my mind.

Bit of History

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

—Bill Cosby (b. 1937)

I tried to work without the music, but because data entry can be so mind-numbing, I found that I was going crazy. I decided that the music, even top 40 music, would help with the problem. I started listening and found that I liked some of it more than I thought I would. There was still much of it that I could not stand, but it was not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I even went out and bought a few CDs, but I have since stopped listening to them.

I was at that job for about six months before they laid me off and I went on to other things. I have not really listened to top 40 music since then, but at least I now know that it won’t kill me. I know there are many that love it, but I can’t say it was any more special than anything else out there. People’s tastes in music are almost as unique as their personalities, and I have found that those who listen to top 40 music tend to be more mainstream everywhere else in their lives. That’s not really a bad thing, that’s just not the person I have always been.

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