Recently a local public radio station conducted its semi-annual pledge drive.
(For non-U.S. readers: That’s when they go on the air and beg for money.)
Question: Have you ever seen a movie that included music while two characters talked? Perhaps soft violins during a tender conversation?
If so, please continue to…
Question #2: Have you ever seen a movie that included vocal music while two characters talked?
Of course not.
Why not?
Because the human ear cannot attend to two human voices simultaneously.
Yet public radio stations across the U.S. — yes, even here in Los Angeles — routinely and deliberately put vocal music underneath the voices of their beg-a-thon announcers.
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
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They’re doing this a lot on TV shows these days. Drives me nuts. You are correct, sir! Stupid!
I’ve even heard radio interviews with vocal music underneath! Ridiculous!
Unbelieveable! (I wish I knew what station that was…) Anyone should know better.