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The Worst Thing a Radio Host Can Do

You're listening to stop this right now.

By Jen AngelaPublished 6 years ago 3 min read
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The radio is a wonderful addition that nearly everyone has in the form of a small, black rectangle stuffed into their cars. Yes, we have moved onto streaming services and aux chords to blast personalized playlists from our smartphones, but radio has still persevered.

Along with radio, radio personalities have remained. Some drivers are true fans of radio talk shows. They listen every single morning with keen ears—I am not one of these people. When you aren’t a loyal fan of these talk shows, it’s easy for the DJs on these platforms to get on your nerves. I’m here to discuss the worst thing a radio talk show host can do.

It’s a Friday afternoon; I’m in my car. I have the windows up and my shades on, so no one can hear or recognize me when I have my own tone-deaf version of carpool karaoke. Rihanna’s song “Stay” is blaring on my radio and I’m making a mockery of myself shouting the heart-wrenching lyrics to the blue sedan in front of me, begging them to stay. The light turns green and I risk everyone’s life with my no-handed driving as I stretch my hands across the dashboard of my car, reaching for the sedan whose driving further and further away from me. I grab my wheel again to steady myself and my car for the next big moment. The song is about to end and I’m waiting for that final falsetto note to end things right when the radio host cuts the song and interrupts my performance with an update on their Friday Flashback competition. Here I was ready to sing the final note horribly out of tune and this radio man shatters my dreams. Could he have waited another moment before disclosing that Amy from who-cares town won two tickets to a hotdog eating competition? I think he could have!

What’s worse than cutting the song off at the end is cutting a small portion out of the middle! For anyone like me who has memorized not just every word, but every note and background riff to my favorite songs, you know how aggravating it can be to find an entire bridge of a song excluded. I was once jamming to “Dangerous Woman” by the ever so dangerous Ariana Grande when the guitar solo in the bridge was beginning. In a mere two seconds, the solo was cut short and jumped to the next chorus. How am I expected to again risk my life by shredding an insane air guitar solo when the radio decides they don’t have enough time to play the 4 minutes and 56 seconds of the full song? What are they cutting songs short for—for them to talk more? You see, this is where a non-fan like myself argues that I don’t need to hear how the radio host lost their keys this morning. I don’t need to hear their co-host laugh and continue the banter about taking an Uber to work. These radio hosts need to be stopped. If an artist wants to put out a 7 minute, 40 second song then I want to hear it to the last second or don’t play it on your show. Amy can wait to find out she won her beef prize; I bet she was waiting for Rihanna’s last note too. We were all waiting!

This concludes the worst thing a radio host can do. There might be worst things, but as disclosed in the beginning, I listen to radio shows as little as possible. Anyway, my only hope is that every good song gets their moment to shine and by moment I mean complete, entire length of the song that the artist recorded. Please tell me you have a song you would get upset over if the radio cuts it short.

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