missing a voice you're not sure you know

The era's characteristic intimacy: Mario grieves a radio voice on hiatus as if for a person, and the grief is real even though he's never met her and isn't sure he knows her. What makes the voice feel like a private address is that Madame Psychosis broadcasts as though speaking to one crucial listener — so each solitary listener takes the one-way transmission personally, a connection felt intensely and running in only one direction. The lonely reach for the voice that seems to be reaching only for you.