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ETA: Apparently I (and the TJ's employee) misheard, the lyric is "world, shut your mouth."

Today, I went shopping at Trader Joe's. I happened to be underneath a particularly loud speaker while it was blasting out a song for which the refrain seemed to be, "Girl, shut your mouth, shut your mouth, shut your mouth" - sung, of course, by a man. A crew member confirmed that those were the lyrics I was hearing ("it's an awful song," she agreed), but no one else seemed to be registering that we were listening to misogyny over loudspeakers.

So I went to customer service and asked them to make it better. Not by changing the channel of the Muzak, but by telling the company that makes such channels that such a song is offensive and has no place in a grocery store. But really, I'd like to say to the people who wrote, recorded, produced, and distributed the song at all that such a song is offensive and has no place in the universe.