Sixteen Military Wives by The Decembrists

This song is about how we have a very even keeled response to most of the events that we see in the media. As a society, we tend to be generally unaffected by events that should evoke an emotional response, whether that responce should be happy or sad. The song is specifically talking different events that would appear on the media that should cause us to feel some sort of emotion, such as soldiers dying or celebraties winning awards. At the end of each verse, the singer says that the anchorman just says la la la and has no real reaction at all. Even more, the reaction is almost identical for each scenario, and this continues to push the theme of our society having a very minimal emotional reaction to what we see in the media.