Background Music

14:47 16/10/2016
Background music.

It gets up my nose.  But why?
I feel invaded, manipulated, controlled.
It seems to have suddenly emerged as a more or less ubiquitous accompaniment to nearly all

media programmes.
It feels like a conspiracy to control all our minds.
It is probably also a way to influence our feelings, but not always.
It has became a significant distaction to me, almost entirely because I've decided to make an

issue of it.
It can, occasionally, make it more difficult to follow what is being said.

I want to complain about it.  But to whom - it's everywhere.
Along the following lines:

"I am writing to complain about the presence of background music in almost all programmes

these days.  It is largely unnecessary and is often a distraction.  I feel invaded and manipulated.

How has it arisen, and in such profusion?  Was there a covert revolution of some sort in the

Musicians' Union, a threat of something unimaginably heineous if there was not music in all

programmmes?  Can anything be done to put an end to it?  Probably not.  I fear that its removal

will be opposed by many, who think it's somehow 'nice'."