Quite frequently, I listen to the radio as I am driving, either music or public radio.
When I have passengers, I have a dilemma though. I can enjoy the company of my passengers with small-chat or intellectual discussions, relative to who is actually in the vehicle. Or, I can have the radio on softly to take away unpleasant small-chat but permit discussion. Or, I can wipe out all discussion by turning the radio louder than one can interject with discussion.
Since I do not find conversations awkward and actually invite others to feel uneasy, my real problem is that when the radio is on softly and the song is universally familiar each person is enticed to hum along, not so much as to sing so not to interfere with others.
Said humming may continue for sometime. Everyone knows the song and is clearly eager to sing it, but out of respect for said dilemma #1, the music is not loud in light of the possibility of meaningful conversation. And thus, the humming continues.
At this point, do you turn up the music so as to encourage singing? Or do you leave the music where it is at for the time and permit the humming to continue in case meaningful conversation takes place?
Each of these possibilities is clearly engorged when those in the backseat already cannot hear those in the front.
Maybe you don't analyze such situations as much as I do, but thankfully I have analyzed the situation for you and have no clear distinctive resolution for said dilemma.
Perhaps humming is like praying in your heart rather than out loud; just as meaningful, only presentably startling when you begin to talk to someone while they are engaged in such activity.
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