Franchises of 7-Eleven have started playing music, at deafening volume, to dissuade homeless people from loitering outside. Their music of choice? Opera.
Music can be many things, including a weapon. Among the songs that law enforcement and militaries have played, at deafening volume, to break the spirits of adversaries over the years are “Paranoid,” by Black Sabbath ; the “Barney” theme ; Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ ” ; and “Oops! . . . I Did It Again,” by Britney Spears .
The other night, a few police officers stood around talking under the store’s glowing sign. “They play it all the time,” one cop said, of the opera music. She wore a bulletproof vest under her coat, and an N.Y.P.D. beanie. Her partner looked as though he had just graduated from high school. “It bothers me,” she said.The subway rumbled underfoot, sirens blared, and two officers on horseback clopped by. A man named C. J.
A few opera types, ahem, disagreed. “I don’t think there are any studies,” Mary Ann Smart, who is a professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley, said. But she had some theories about why 7-Eleven would choose opera. “It’s not calm,” she said. “It’s fast and loud and active, but it doesn’t have that syncopated aspect that makes people want to dance, or give them the impression that they’re in a club or at a rave.
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