Local Woman Endures 45 Minutes Of Maroon 5 And Katy Perry After Arriving At Gym Without Headphones

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT

A local finance worker has today lived through one of the more gruelling forms of everyday mental torment.

Kim Le (30) has arrived at her local 24 hour gym with more than enough time to get in a solid work-out before she’s expected at her desk for a day of meetings and calls.

YayFitness in Betoota’s French Quarter is known for it’s cleanliness and vast array of equiptment. On Tuesdays and Thursdays they hosrt FITT classes – and members love boasting about the steam room.

But all of that means nothing to Kim today, because she has arrived at the gym without her headphones.

“It’s always hard enough to smash out 45 minutes of cardio and weights at the end of a long week” she says.

“But yes, it is much worse when you have to endure the gym’s natural atmosphere”

Without headphones and her own playlists, Kim must now spend the best part of an hour attempting to break a sweat while listening to the deodorised slick of Adam Levine vocals, as the gym’s speaker system blares out the entire Maroon 5 catalogue.

These Californian pop-rock ballads are interspersed with the very best of Katy Perry – which appears to have been the go-to gym music for the last 15 years.

On top of these two giants of inoffensive gym music, Kim finds herself listening to the dulcet tones of Bruno Mars and the song about a G6.

This is a radical departure from Kim’s usual playlist of extreme gangster rap and hyper female power ballads.

“It’s moments like this where I really need some Cardi B or Charli” she scowls, while navigating the stair machine to the discomforting second chorus from ‘Fireworks’.

“Or even some Troy Sivan or Kylie. If you can’t give me swear words, give me something gay”

However, at time of press, Kim says she was eventually saved during the back-end of her work out by the dulcet tones of one of Australian radio’s favourite international artists.

“Thank god for P!nk” she says.