Yesterday, in a rather unwise move, I had 2FM on in the car while I drove, oh three whole kilometres to the nearest Easons to buy the Pratchett book that I spent yesterday evening reading.
This was not a wise move. I don’t know who is on post 5pm on 2FM but I don’t want to know either. They were discussing the fact that they were going to be doing a powerballad special. I’ n not sure what it meant but they played some clip with some dude who inspired them to do this. I almost puked.
Look. I get powerballads. I even own a few. Stuff that I was forced to listen to when I was working in a typing pool in London at the weekends when I was a student. Anyone who hears Unbreak my Heart by Tony Braxton more than 4 million times in 9 months is either going to do bad things that I couldn’t possibly imagine or wind up liking the thing. I bought it to remind me of those happy weekends in the typing pool where I discovered what class division really was. Them. And Us.
Still, it paid for college. And living in London. Which was kinda pricey.
However, that’s not the point. The point is this. Even I wouldn’t want to listen to power ballads at 5pm on a Monday evening. What in the name of Christ were 2FM thinking of? Who’s idea was this? Do we really want to listen to Celine Dion and Jennifer Rush and Maria McKee when we are stuck in traffic? In the name of all that’s holy why would we want to?
I thought 2Fm was supposed to be the youth station. Surely to Christ if you were going to dream up a powerballad for the youth of Ireland you’d at least dig out Beautiful by Christina Aguilera and stuff by that other wan who probably has a powerballad or two stashed on an album. Jesus Beyoncé surely has stuff worth playing if you want the big romantic heartbreakers.
I hopped over to Phantom FM. They were playing “There is a light that never goes out” by the Smiths. Somehow it was far better than the memory swapping about great powerballads on 2FM. I can’t help feeling that if the country has a future, the youth of today would prefer the Smiths over powerballads, in general.
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