Maybe\u00a0it\u2019s about the power of advertising. Never had any reason to sing Crocodile Rock but there it goes\u2026me and Suzie had so much fun\u2026everybody knows the experience of hating a song that\u2019s in their head. Some lift arrogant noses and say that\u2019s proof the song is actually good. True things we like we repeat in our heads but then why do we repeat things we hate?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s added to the radio, it\u2019s played in the supermarket, in the elevator \u2013 opportunity to take up some of your mental real estate. That’s why – advertising works.<\/p>\n
If you win the lottery you could hire whoever is the payola-du-jour thus having radio stations and journalists\u00a0busy working for you. Tried and true method to being established. \u00a0Soon it’s in the heads of the masses like it or not,\u00a0they’ll talk about how great this new music is – that they “discovered”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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