Well it's nice you got the worst kind; the ones that are next to your ears instead of in/around them.
I don't need to cancel out noise though.
Usually they go in or around your ears for noise cancellation so you can focus on the music, but having to take them out to hear someone talking to you is annoying.
You don't have to do that if you have any kind of volume control though
or like, you knowa pause button
omfg look at that bulge!!!!!!!!!!