Ginormous Buzz Ballads
Jul 20th, 2006 by Alex
Ginormous. Not a word often seen in print or on the radio. But the other day I heard it on television; not on a talk-show lamenting speech patterns of urban youth, but on an advertisement.
Killing time last weekend I caught a commerical for Buzz Ballads. This is one of those As Seen on TV compilation albums available for three easy payments of $27.50. The ones that you see advertised all the time, yet know nobody who has actually purchased it. The announcer referred to the songs as “the ginormous hits” of the 90’s. Until then, I had only heard the word used informally. Yet another sign of modern media (and the world in general) going down the toilet.
A quick tangent, but the whole advertisement made me feel rather old, knowing that I could probably recite the lyrics to half of the songs on the album without even hearing the music.
