Some of these lyrics are wrong. Most importantly, and you must listen carefully, it's "give HER some funked-up music" and "feed HER some hungry reggae". Not "us" - it is strictly about the effect of the music on the girls. "Us" also implies that they are both consumers of the music subject to the radio station's whims; "her" shows that these are seduction methods being offered to men by the cynical narrator.
Also, he doesn't sing "Muzak", but "music". Muzak is a registered trademark, and its use would have incurred the same flurry of copyright notices and disclaimers on the album that Paul Simon did when he used "Kodachrome", even though he said very nice things about it and gave Kodak a free multi-million selling ad.
Some of these lyrics are wrong. Most importantly, and you must listen carefully, it's "give HER some funked-up music" and "feed HER some hungry reggae". Not "us" - it is strictly about the effect of the music on the girls. "Us" also implies that they are both consumers of the music subject to the radio station's whims; "her" shows that these are seduction methods being offered to men by the cynical narrator. Also, he doesn't sing "Muzak", but "music". Muzak is a registered trademark, and its use would have incurred the same flurry of copyright notices and disclaimers on the album that Paul Simon did when he used "Kodachrome", even though he said very nice things about it and gave Kodak a free multi-million selling ad.