Places we hear music in our everyday lives

Not only has the way we listen to music been changed in the sense that we now have multiple devices to listen to music on, that we can transport with us anywhere that we go, we can also hear music constantly, wherever we go even when it wasnt our aim to do so.

For example, when going shopping, depending on how you take your journey, the likelihood that you will be exposed to music throughout your day is very high indeed.
This is because, at the start of your journey, if you drive, or get in a taxi, you're more than likely going to have the radio on, or even if you dont, someone may drive past you who has loud music on, and you would hear it through this. Even if you go on the bus, either the bus driver could have the radio on, or someone could be playing music at the back of the bus for example, or just have their music on their headphones loud, and you will hear it through this.

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Once you arrive at the shopping centre, it is almost guarenteed that their will be music playing in the main building, and definitley in the seperate shops that you go in, and this will include all different genres, so you will be exposed to quite a lot of different types of music, just through browsing in shops. Which is quite incredible if you think about it used to be, compared to how it is now.

Furthering this, if the shopping centre has a lift, and you need to go to another floor, again this is a place you could hear music, although quite an unusual one. You wont hear actual songs when in a lift, but you will more than likely hear lift music, which will be some kind of soothing tones, to try and make your transport from floor to floor more enjoyable.

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This just shows, on a typical day how, without even intending to, you can be exposed to all different types of music, just by carrying out your normal day to day activites. This highlights just how much this technology has developed.