Heaven Knows Iβm Miserable Now: UK radio listeners nominate songs to sum up election campaign
Exclusive: Boom Radio listeners share in election fatigue but demographic arguably has less to lose than younger voters
Sometimes only a song can sum up the national mood. When a soggy Rishi Sunak fired the starting gun on the general election in May, D:Reamβs Things Can Only Get Better blared across Downing Street. Five long weeks later and voters are cueing up rather more mordant tracks to capture their political fatigue.
Listeners to Boom Radio, asked to pick a classic song to sum up their feelings about the campaign, have selected Pink Floydβs Comfortably Numb, Queenβs Bohemian Rhapsody (βIs this the real life?/Is this just fantasy? / Caught in a landslide / No escape from realityβ) and Bob Dylanβs All Along the Watchtower (βThere must be some way out of here / Said the joker to the thiefβ).
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