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Video: What Are New Yorkers Listening To On The Street?
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Jamie Feldmar
Published May 27, 2011
Modified May 27, 2011
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Hey, you. Yeah, you with the headphones. Walking all fast and furious, head nodding to the beat, blissfully tuned out the city noise around you. What's going on in those little earbuds of yours? Filmmaker Tyler Cullen decided to find out, so he made a cute video asking passersby what they're listening to and filming the results.
Our favorites? The middle-aged guy sitting alone in the park, eating a banana while listening to Lady Gaga, the zonked-out dreadlocked Rastafarian nodding to Bob Marley's "Buffalo Soldier," and the baby-faced kid who name-drops "More Than A Woman" from the Bee Gees.
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