I have an annoying neighbour. This annoying neighbour plays loud music throughout the day and sometimes the night too.
This annoying neighbour also happens to have a wireless charging stand with a built in BT speaker. A BT speaker that requires no authentication, no pairing, no nothing. You can just connect to it.
This annoying neighbour has been suffering from random bouts of Mariah Carey at the most inopportune times - such as 3am - at max volume. I've even programmed a Bluetooth controller to keep connecting to it and playing the song at random intervals if it gets paused or the volume reduced. And most recently I've been working on figuring out a way to detect when the neighbour plays loud music so I can finally connect the two events in a very obvious way so they finally stop.
You think hearing it for two months is bad? Try being my annoying neighbour. Doesn't matter if it's July, or February, or September, if it's morning, evening, or barely past midnight, he's getting his Mariah fix, Careyd over the soundwaves.
These things are more ads than real stats. People aren't spending as much as they used to, so they're spilling these baits early to create all so good "ready for shopping" feeling.
Theres a lot. Its probably best to check it yourself as i only have second hand knowledge, but I know shes faced allegations of sexual misconduct multiple times, theres the stuff with eminem, theres the claim she stole "all i want for christmas" but i believe that was either dismissed or settled, its just a bunch of stuff. She doesnt seem like a genuinely shitty perosn, but from the sheer number of controversies shes not someone i would want to personally associate with or look up to.
This is one of those runaway climate change effects they warned us about. I worry it's too late to stop it. Next year, it'll start in August, then June, etc.
Is it just a load of stores/shops immediately switching to generic xmas playlists after Halloween? To me that's the only reason I could see there to being a sudden spike. This song is bound to be in most of them. But we'd also need to track other popular xmas tracks.
(I know there used to be significant music licensing issues about what music could be played in a store, to the public. Don't know if there is some special Spotify business account now?)
True. All I can think of is that before it gets to Halloween shops have sold off most of their stock and are in the process of getting all the Xmas stuff out. I've been places where they have a Halloween and Xmas mix of songs.
I'm not ruling out that a few hundred thousand completely random people around the world all decide to listen to Xmas music around the same time. I just think it's more likely businesses switching to seasonal music as early as possible, and streaming Mariah Carey 20 times a day, causing the big sudden spike.
October 25th is the date that most stores pull down the Halloween stuff and transition to Christmas stuff. It's not unusual for most stores to have zero Halloween stuff on the shelves on Halloween.
The seasonal arrival of Spirit in the many empty commercial buildings has made this worse. Regular stores bring in less merchandize and are often stocking Christmas stuff 2 or 3 weeks before Halloween in my area.
goddamn it the worst (best) part about this is that, being an entity that experiences non-linear time, Q absolutely could experience this montage in this order. (and also force everyone in it to also experience it.) lmao
30 Comments
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 54 pts · 307d
Not a bad song, but playing it for 2 months straight every year is way too much.
fonix232@fedia.io · 59 pts · 306d
I have an annoying neighbour. This annoying neighbour plays loud music throughout the day and sometimes the night too.
This annoying neighbour also happens to have a wireless charging stand with a built in BT speaker. A BT speaker that requires no authentication, no pairing, no nothing. You can just connect to it.
This annoying neighbour has been suffering from random bouts of Mariah Carey at the most inopportune times - such as 3am - at max volume. I've even programmed a Bluetooth controller to keep connecting to it and playing the song at random intervals if it gets paused or the volume reduced. And most recently I've been working on figuring out a way to detect when the neighbour plays loud music so I can finally connect the two events in a very obvious way so they finally stop.
You think hearing it for two months is bad? Try being my annoying neighbour. Doesn't matter if it's July, or February, or September, if it's morning, evening, or barely past midnight, he's getting his Mariah fix, Careyd over the soundwaves.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 306d
I love you
Your neighbour probably thinks they’re being haunted by a very festive ghost
You should set it to play an air raid siren/klaxon with a made up emergency news broadcast, like the purge.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 305d
Orson Welles' War Of The Worlds broadcast
Midnitte@beehaw.org · 13 pts · 306d
Monkey paw unfurled. November is removed, but December is twice as long
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 306d
Yeah, my immediate thought was "Why would anyone voluntarily listen to this song?" and it had nothing to do with the quality of the song.
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 306d
These things are more ads than real stats. People aren't spending as much as they used to, so they're spilling these baits early to create all so good "ready for shopping" feeling.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 306d
Unfortunately from everything ive heard, mariah carrey isnt a super great person
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 306d
Ohh, spill it! 🍵
Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 306d
Theres a lot. Its probably best to check it yourself as i only have second hand knowledge, but I know shes faced allegations of sexual misconduct multiple times, theres the stuff with eminem, theres the claim she stole "all i want for christmas" but i believe that was either dismissed or settled, its just a bunch of stuff. She doesnt seem like a genuinely shitty perosn, but from the sheer number of controversies shes not someone i would want to personally associate with or look up to.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 306d
This is one of those runaway climate change effects they warned us about. I worry it's too late to stop it. Next year, it'll start in August, then June, etc.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 11 pts · 306d
Do you know what that means? We're closing into a perpetual Mariah Carey season, the Mariahcalypse.
Quexotic@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 305d
The way the economy is going, you're probably right.
dellhiver@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 307d
Is it just a load of stores/shops immediately switching to generic xmas playlists after Halloween? To me that's the only reason I could see there to being a sudden spike. This song is bound to be in most of them. But we'd also need to track other popular xmas tracks.
(I know there used to be significant music licensing issues about what music could be played in a store, to the public. Don't know if there is some special Spotify business account now?)
Anivia@feddit.org · 9 pts · 307d
Since when is October 25th after Halloween?
dellhiver@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 306d
True. All I can think of is that before it gets to Halloween shops have sold off most of their stock and are in the process of getting all the Xmas stuff out. I've been places where they have a Halloween and Xmas mix of songs.
I'm not ruling out that a few hundred thousand completely random people around the world all decide to listen to Xmas music around the same time. I just think it's more likely businesses switching to seasonal music as early as possible, and streaming Mariah Carey 20 times a day, causing the big sudden spike.
The_v@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 306d
October 25th is the date that most stores pull down the Halloween stuff and transition to Christmas stuff. It's not unusual for most stores to have zero Halloween stuff on the shelves on Halloween.
The seasonal arrival of Spirit in the many empty commercial buildings has made this worse. Regular stores bring in less merchandize and are often stocking Christmas stuff 2 or 3 weeks before Halloween in my area.
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 306d
Oh, hell no. Get back in your ice cube, beotch.
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 306d
"I don't want a bunch of fancy, wonderful things. I just want you." Wow thanks Mariah.
thefluffiest@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 306d
We urgently need a new ice age
Little8Lost@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 306d
We may already prevnted the next one X<
cosmicpancake@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 307d
credo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 306d
This is a bot ^^
janus2@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 306d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcKKTR0Sg7k
GET THE GUN CARTER. GET THE GODDAMN GUN
Hupf@feddit.org · 2 pts · 306d
Q
janus2@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 306d
goddamn it the worst (best) part about this is that, being an entity that experiences non-linear time, Q absolutely could experience this montage in this order. (and also force everyone in it to also experience it.) lmao
troglodytis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 306d
Toby was always right
fubarx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 306d
Always been amazed this song doesn't get used for Rickrolling during the last two months of each year. It's a systemic failure.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 305d
No my name is not Cindy.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 305d
i love this song i listen to it year round
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 305d
Best reason to fight climate change