{"id":17757,"date":"2025-02-14T23:39:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T22:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/everyone-knows-the-centrelink-song-how-we-learned-to-love-and-remix-hold-music\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T23:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T22:39:19","slug":"everyone-knows-the-centrelink-song-how-we-learned-to-love-and-remix-hold-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/everyone-knows-the-centrelink-song-how-we-learned-to-love-and-remix-hold-music\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Everyone knows the Centrelink song\u2019: how we learned to love \u2013 and remix \u2013 hold music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been called the \u2018sound of purgatory\u2019 but Opus 1 has enjoyed a new life in performance art, in a beer commercial and now on TikTok<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Triple J once played it for eight hours straight. DJs have remixed it, dancers have performed to it, and many of us, have sat, frustrated, listening to it.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly the Centrelink hold music has seeped into the cultural zeitgeist and is now the backdrop for works of art and viral TikToks.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/feb\/15\/everyone-knows-the-centrelink-song-how-we-learned-to-love-and-remix-hold-music\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ac870edc4aa4d50c79f6a6150d89ca5f548daef5\/0_0_2500_1500\/master\/2500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9bebd85205689e20a77743c9defab130\" title=\"\u2018Everyone knows the Centrelink song\u2019: how we learned to love \u2013 and remix \u2013 hold music\" \/>It\u2019s been called the \u2018sound of purgatory\u2019 but Opus 1 has enjoyed a new life in performance art, in a beer commercial and now on TikTok<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>Triple J once played it for eight hours straight. DJs have remixed it, dancers have performed to it, and many of us, have sat, frustrated, listening to it.<br \/>\nSlowly the Centrelink hold music has seeped into the cultural zeitgeist and is now the backdrop for works of art and viral TikToks.<br \/>\nSign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been called the \u2018sound of purgatory\u2019 but Opus 1 has enjoyed a new life in performance art, in a beer commercial and now on TikTok Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Triple J once played it for eight hours straight. DJs have remixed it, dancers have performed to it, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/everyone-knows-the-centrelink-song-how-we-learned-to-love-and-remix-hold-music\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Everyone knows the Centrelink song\u2019: how we learned to love \u2013 and remix \u2013 hold music<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17757"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}