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Great. Now I can't get this stupid song out of my head. Thanks a lot for that.

I'm not entirely sure that it does work this way in the UK.
IIRC, far from the radio stations paying to play, they are instead paid to "power play" certain tracks. This is of course funded by "teh big evil labels", and we end up with nothing short of drivel(DJ's) punctuated by pap(sponsored music).
It leads to the situation where "free to air" radio is entirely dismiss-able.
X Sadat said it best:
Question why is it that everytime I turn on the radio
I hear the same five songs fifteen times a day for three months
Man funk that !!
Get a new dj !!

Except now it would seem more appropriate to replace DJ with Business model.

from: http://www.lyricsbox.com/x-sadat-lyrics-funk-dat-j 8144pb.html

Ahem.

"Freedom Costs A Buck O' Five."
Lyrics

Slow down there, Nigel. "Cunt" is one of the remaining nasty words that cannot be said on Pay TV on this side of the pond. In fact, I don't recall hearing it in any of the nasty, non-porn movies I've watched.

For reference, here are the 7 (as outlined by "some American comedian decades ago:

-shit (check)
-piss (check)
-cunt
-fuck (check)
-motherfucker (check)
-cocksucker (check)
-tits (check)

Personally, I come from a patch of fur this big.

I just can't resist posting this:

Pearl Harbor from Team America

I miss you more then Michael Bay missed the mark
When he made Pearl Harbor
I miss you more than that movie missed the point
And that's an awful lot girl
And now, now you've gone away
And all I'm trying to say is
Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you

I need u like Ben Affleck needs acting school
He was terrible in that film
I need u like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part
He's way better than Ben Affleck
And now all I can think about is your smile
and that shitty movie too
Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you

Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies?
I guess Pearl Harbor sucked
Just a little bit more than I miss you

Says you!

~~~

the notion that banging people over the head with something makes it...popular?

Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth -- Aldous Huxley

You can't fool all of the people all of the time, but they seem to be handling fooling most of the people most of the time.

I first noticed it with music in the late 80s when I was listening to a lot of rap music. Radio stations would hardly play any, and when they started playing rap music, it was from people who came out of nowhere who were nowhere near as talented as the people I liked to listen to.

Later on when I took Political Science I found out that advertising dollars is the number one factor in elections, and name recognition is the second. Without overt advertising people tend to vote for the person whose name they have heard the most, regardless of possitions. It is not true of everyone, but it is scary how many people react like this.

Is this a hazard that comes with soft living? Or maybe 15,000 years of evolution without meaningful predators coming after you all the time? Or did TV and consumerism really, finally, destroy our minds?

A million years of evolution, we get Danny Quayle.

Exactly the line I was thinking along. Good Fight Club reference, sir:

This is your life

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake
You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else
We are all part of the same compost heap
We are the all singing, all dancing, crap of the world

You are not your bank account
You are not the clothes you wear
You are not the contents of your wallet
You are not your bowel cancer
You are not your grande latte
You are not the car you drive
You are not your fucking khaki's

Public Enemy got it right with their single 911 is a joke, especially the line "I call a cab cuz a cab will come quicker".

"The amount of sleep required varies with each individual, with the average being 7.2 hours. Some extremes have been recorded of people requiring no more than 4 to 6 hours of sleep (Thomas Edison is one), while others have been known to require 8 to 10 hours (such as Albert Einstein)."

In related news, Nas never sleeps, cuz sleep is the cousin of death...