It is not just that blasting radios, mobile phones, traffic and aeroplanes can be a source of despair.
Her last day, Friday, was much like all the rest: heated arguments with the son, Bernard Reid, known as Jabee, over the mess in the house, over his blasting radio, his laziness, his refusal to help pay the bills.
Madonna, for example, blasted radio stations last year for playing only music by 20-somethings.
In a scathing review of "Spencer's Mountain," a family drama starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara, she blasted Radio City Music Hall for its Easter-time showing of a film "that for sheer prurience and perverted morality disguised as piety makes the nudie shows at the Rialto look like Walt Disney productions".
Cape Verde is the birthplace of singer Cesária Évora, and music resonates everywhere: from the guitarists on the street, to well-known acts every night at 5tal da Musica in the capital of Praia, to the blasting radio of packed taxi vans that wait and wait until they are full to depart.
That's the less-than-spiritual message retailers are blasting from radios, TVs, billboards, newspaper and magazine ads, circulars, direct mail, Facebook walls, tweets, and e-blasts (have I missed any media?) in these last weeks before Chanukah and Christmas.
Usually I roll down the window, blast the radio, and try to get something to drink".
Drivers were also not allowed to blast the radio or roll down the windows.
It is not acceptable to blast your radio in the city either.
