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Barry Manilow to be used against mall rats
Topic Started: Mar 3 2009, 12:57 AM (128 Views)
XNavyGunner
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It'll be Barry Manilow versus the mall rats.

The New Zealand city of Christchurch hopes that putting the American crooner's smooth and gentle tones into the mix of music to be broadcast through the central mall district can pacify unruly teens who congregate there, or at least convince them to go elsewhere.

"The intention is to change the environment in a positive way ... so nobody feels threatened or intimidated," Central City Business Association manager Paul Lonsdale told The Associated Press. "I did not say Barry Manilow is a weapon of mass destruction."

A group of several dozen young people regularly spread rubbish, spray graffiti, get intoxicated, use drugs, swear and intimidate patrons at the outdoor mall, he said.

The city council, police and local property owners covering 410 businesses agree that "nice, easy listening" music like Manilow's "Can't Smile Without You," "Mandy" and other hits might change the behavior of loitering teens.

But one 16-year-old told The Press newspaper that unfashionable music wouldn't deter them.

"We would just bring a stereo and play it louder," Emma Belcher said.

Lonsdale countered that the city would then hit them with anti-noise laws.

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I know it'd run me off.
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The Mule
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I bet Stalin never had these kinds of problems.....
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XNavyGunner
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I bet he would have drawn the line at Barry Manilow too.
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I've cranked up the Snow White soundtrack, and The Carpenters to wake up my kids before....

Funny thing about music...the same music that drove your parents nuts, drives your kids nuts too....

(the exception to that rule being my youngest daughter- who regularly asks me to play The Band, Zevon, Floyd, etc....
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...at the Copa, Copa Cabana.... the hottest spot north of Havana.... "Happy" "lolabove"

Heyyyyyyyyyy who's dissing the Jewish God Barry?? He's mah MAN... okay well he is someone else's man but I kinda like him... sheesh. :lmao: :lmao:
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:lmao: :lmao: my parents' music doesn't bother me a bit, as a matter of fact, i listen to a lot of the stuff from their youth like Elvis, Fats Domino, etc.....i listen to a lil of everything.....and my mom even liked some of the 80's hair band stuff that me and the youngest of my brothers listened to.....for instance.....she loved "unskinny bop" by poison and of course "ya mama don't dance, and ya daddy don't rock'n'roll" the rerecorded version by poison :lmao:
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"Happy" I love all kinds of music too... Poison!!!! Whoa they rock!! HAHAHAHA. It's fun to look at the video's and the styles they are wearing :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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well of course there's exceptions to every rule....for example....talking mules?
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yep She-ra......and to think we used to dress that way....rofl

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They do that here at one of the city malls near where I live. Not Barry Manilow but it works.
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I just got done hearing this on the radio. Barry Manilow drives me crazy. I worked at a place where I was stuck listening to his greatest hits all day for months at a time before. :wall:
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