Yesterday I Heard A Beat Girl Cry...

I read this article just now that says that more people are hooking up their phones to their car stereos instead of listening to the actual radio.

Big surprise.

Perhaps if they stopped playing the same song on the radio over and over again or played some variety instead of people who sound exactly alike then we'd tune in more. Right now I feel like I'm stuck in the middle somewhere when it comes to picking a station. It's like a job interview. I'm overqualified for WPGC and WKYS. I'm married, have a kid and too much life experience to get into the "I wanna (censored) every woman alive while drinking $500 bottles of liquor, partying in mansions that I can somehow afford with no credit and yet still keeping it real by (censored) every (censored) who looks at me the wrong way but only going to jail long enough to come up with new rhymes." I'm overqualified to listen to that kind of music.

Then there's WHUR and Magic 102.3...or as I think of them as "The Quiet Storm" stations. That's what my mother used to listen to on the little radio on her desk at work. It's "lady wearing a sweater duster at her desk" music. Occasionally they play something that used to be good back in the day but instead of getting into it and enjoying myself, I find myself getting depressed at the realization that Boyz II Men, Jodeci and TLC are on 102.3. That means one thing...I'M GETTING OLD!

When the song you loved in 7th grade is referred to as an oldie by the DJ the last thing you do is get excited that it's on. You start wondering where the last 17 years of your life went and then you have a mid life crisis that forces you to turn back to WPGC and hear Lil Wayne growling out lyrics through a mouth full of concrete pebbles and then you just say "(censored) it!" and you turn the radio off. Either that or you turn to the White stations and start wondering if you've sold out somehow because you actually enjoy these songs a little bit.

Before long you actually find yourself not changing the station and just letting the songs play until you pull up beside a bunch of Black people in the car next to you and then you hit the "favorite" station real quick to go back to WPGC to make it look like you're still "authentic." So yeah...it's either go through the motions with that or plug up your smartphone and listen to what you have in your own collection.

Then again, that could just be my experience.