You asked me to 'change the music.' I complied...with escalation.

When the classmate loudly instructed me to “change the music” in military school, I honored the request with the solemnity of a textbook obedience experiment — and then turned the dial toward chaos.

She’d been spoiled with Tool, which—quoting a wise Redditor—“is great, but it is weird.” So I swapped the weird for the volcanic: Tool → Lamb of God. Another commenter summed the outcome perfectly: “you took her straight from Tool to Lamb of God on hard mode. That scream probably reset her whole brain.” The scream did, in fact, sound like somebody ejecting a DVD drive from a 2003 PC mid‑boot.

Inventory, for the record: one Tool CD (subtle), one Lamb of God (aggressive), one fragile tolerance for sonic assault (zero). The lesson is tidy and procedural: when ordered to change the music, literal compliance plus maximal escalation is both efficient and oddly educational. Mic drop: compliance, when applied with imagination, becomes a strategic weapon.