The main elements of this audio piece is the voice over of the narrator, the machinery noises of the factory and the music. The repetition of the same lyrics and how the narrator repeats the phases reflects this idea of ‘Ear worms’, a term used to describe when a song is stuck in your head. This audio piece has a purpose of telling a story of this man—the narrator—whom used to work on the killing lines of a meat factory around Ireland and states to have been ‘plagued by a few ear worms’ in his life time. Now he is reminiscing those days, and those songs he once heard during his days in the factory now represent a certain period of his lifetime. I feel that this audio piece portrays that rather well and does it in a very interesting and entertaining way that makes it so that we as the audience are really drawn to what’s happening in the background with the machinery and the song lyrics.
It’s a rather strange but also unique story told through nothing but simple audio composition and combines two rather different things. A meat factory where they kill animals is almost juxtaposed to the upbeat, lively music that the narrator is singing along to.
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