Music is playing everywhere we go, from shopping malls to restaurants music is used to fill the void of silence in an otherwise noisy world.

At my old job I worked at a paint store. And at this paint store we played one radio station every day, I don’t even remember which one it was all I knew is that is played early 2000s pop hits. But what I found was even when I was working alone in an empty store I was never focused on the music that was playing. It was always just there to fill the emptiness while we worked.

A lot of the time you can’t afford to pay attention to the music that is playing because it will distract you from the task at hand but none the less, the music will continue to play.

(kirillslov/Pixabay)

Do you think music is the entertainment we consume the most thereby allowing us to tune out music, or do you think we are listening to the music but just in a passive way.

I believe it’s the ladder, I believe music is the easiest entertainment to consume therefore we are able to listen and not use the same amount of brain power required to say, listen to a podcast or watch a tv show. This creates a strange relationship with the art form turning us into passive listeners not paying attention to said music and turning it into a sort of background noise. But occasionally, we are able to pull information from that background noise like when a song we like is playing comes on, but do you notice that when that happens, we lose all focus on everything else for a split second.