Originally Posted by PTravel

I'm sitting in a club room (I won't mention which as I don't want this to be airline-specific). There are two televisions, one over the bar and one in the lounge area. Both are tuned to some country music award show that involves people singing in nasal voices about cheating on spouses, carrying guns, NASCAR, and a variety of other activities that seem to have appeal only to a specific demographic. Each performer is periodically interrupted by shrieks and screams of what is clearly a very large audience. All of them are wearing cowboy hats, t-shirts, or attire that looks appropriate for a production of Oklahoma. Did I mention that these TVs are loud?

I have to wonder what club room management is thinking. There are specific art forms that have very specific and limited appeal. Whether it's country, hip hop or 12th century Gothic chants, you can be reasonably certain that only a small percentage of people in a club room to find the music a pleasant and relaxing background to the club experience.

And, yes, I've asked the bartender to turn it down, but there's a guy at the bar who turned out to be watching and, out of courtesy to him (and he was here first), I said never mind -- leave it on.

But, really, this shouldn't come up at all. What's the point of putting in [semi-]comfy furniture, carpeting, muted colors and plants if you're going to turn the club room into some kind of raucous, twangy, s___-kicker's Woodstock?