While sit­ting in a class in Johnson Hall, I can hear the bass being played out­side, through the build­ing, in the street com­ing from stu­dents’ cars.

Not that I mind the dis­trac­tion from class, but I am always shocked I can hear the bass from so far away. I can’t help but think of why peo­ple are play­ing their music so loud, espe­cially the bass. It’s not cool and it’s espe­cially not good for your ears.

I guess I’ll play the mom card, because I don’t think music should be cranked up so loud that peo­ple can hear it through the build­ings. Maybe I’m just get­ting older, but I don’t under­stand why every­thing has to be so ter­ri­bly and uncom­fort­ably loud. Don’t get me wrong, I sing prob­a­bly louder than the major­ity of peo­ple and blast music in my car too, but not to the point that my ears hurt, like I’m assum­ing these stu­dents’ ears do in their cars.

I remem­ber watch­ing the lat­est Pirates of the Caribbean movie in the­atres last sum­mer, and I hated it. It wasn’t because of the movie, Johnny Depp is gor­geous, but I couldn’t con­cen­trate on the movie because I was plug­ging my ears since the vol­ume was so loud. At first I thought it was only me, but min­utes into the movie peo­ple were walk­ing out to ask the cin­ema employ­ees to turn down the vol­ume. It con­tin­ued to be so painful my boyfriend actu­ally went and asked the employ­ees to turn it down. Needless to say, no one turned the vol­ume down, even when mul­ti­ple peo­ple com­plained. I was shocked a busi­ness wouldn’t accom­mo­date to cus­tomers’ needs, espe­cially when the tick­ets were $12 each.

Having loud vol­umes seems to be a grow­ing trend. I thought it was a phase dur­ing high school, but it just seems to be fol­low­ing me wher­ever I go.

The rea­son why I’m so con­cerned with vol­ume is because of my dad. He needs a hear­ing aid in both ears. It’s an amaz­ing tech­nol­ogy, espe­cially since your hear­ing is irre­place­able, but in today’s mar­ket it’s a pricey one. For a sin­gle hear­ing aid, it cost’s $6,000. That’s $12,000 to be able to hear nor­mally again.

Seriously? That’s almost my entire stu­dent loan debt. So if those peo­ple who con­tinue blast­ing their bass and those, like me, who sit through painfully loud movies, will have to look for­ward to that ridicu­lous hear­ing aid annoy­ance and bill in the future.

I don’t want to lose any­more hear­ing because once it’s gone, it’s gone. I hope you don’t either. Maybe we should think twice before blast­ing our music so loud that it can be heard through buildings.

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