At the sports club I go to, classical background music is playing all the time.
Why classical music? And why a standard tune by Mozart and others?
Are they trying to create a sense of luxury?
Is classical music high class and enka low class?
I think it would be fine if rock, jazz, or enka were played once in a while, but they are never played.
They must have a contract with classical music only on cable broadcasting or something.
Why classical music for sports?
They exercise, so why not play more rhythmic, light music?
There are a lot of elderly people, so why not some enka?
Also, in Japanese-style spaces such as matcha tea ceremonies or Japanese restaurants, or in supermarkets for the New Year or the New Year, "Haru no Umi" or "Rokudan" played by shakuhachi and koto is always played.
Everyone has definitely heard this. It's really tiresome.
There must be many more great songs and types of traditional Japanese music alone.
When a sports club or a supermarket opens, they must have thought about what kind of music to play as background music.
When the person planning the event asked, the person in charge would probably have said,
"That's fine for now..."
Pachinko parlors used to play brave tunes such as "Gunkan March.
Nowadays, they would play more youthful, upbeat tunes.
The aim is to psychologically entice customers to gamble more and more money.
I can understand that. If they play "Kimigayo," the customers will leave.
This is even the case with music, which is freely available and people have a wide variety of tastes.
It seems that the tendency to think and act stereotypically has somehow infiltrated the Japanese people.
What is "stereotyping"?
simplistic fixed ideas and images that have permeated many people....
The result is a biased or judgmental view of things.
I think stereotypes occur everywhere, in the way people dress and fashion, in the work they do at their companies, in their dream homes, and everywhere else.
It occurs in the way people talk, and perhaps even in the way they act and think.
Stereotypes eventually give birth to uniformity.
In this day and age, when people are calling for respect for individuality, freedom, and diversification, even music has become a uniformity, and even people's tastes have become fixed.
At this rate, the Japanese people themselves will also become uniformed, and will soon become a group of people who are quick to follow and agree with one another.
Conscription could easily become a reality, and we could be thrust into war in no time at all.