Overplayed

We all have songs that we cannot stand to hear anymore because they have been overplayed. And let's face it, once a song has been altered to fit into the Muzak rotation at Famous, the song is well beyond being overplayed. These songs, although they may be "fresh", "original" or groundbreaking" when they first appear on the music scene, become stale, redundant, obnoxious and more than enough reason to flip to another station. Or perhaps they were never that good to begin with, btu for some reason found a lot of playing time on the airwaves.

Whatever your take on why some songs just seem to fall from grace to that place where we never want to hear them again, the following fact is irrefutable:

The top five songs of last year played for over 8.5 years.

That's right! Eight and a half years!
Is there nothing better to play than these songs out there?

I think this goes to show the uniformity of radio stations and their playlists. Thanks to the huge broadcasting conglomerates, we are all subjected to not only hours of mediocre songs, but years of it on every possible station imaginable.

It's no wonder people enjoy the "flashback weekends" and other such station antics. They are desperately trying to escape hearing the same song for the 100th time that day and have a little variety in their music life...