Why do we tend to listen to a new song that we like over and over again and then we can’t stand hearing it anymore?
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I have always found this weird i don’t do it, and never understood why people would ruin music for themselves like that
Why do I wake up with some random song in my head that I haven’t listened to for years?? Followed seconds later by thinking wtf??
I don’t do this, personally. If I find a new song I really enjoy I try to go out of my way to not listen to it so I can really enjoy it when it randomly comes up in one of my playlists
Lol got [this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YddwkMJG1Jo) stuck in my head this week
Think about it as a mechanism for leaning new things in the world. Like how a baby might spin a wheel or play with some toy in a certain motion repeatedly. Then they get bored of it quickly. The desire to repeat the new action caused them to learn about its motion.
Without even relating it to music specifically, I’d say it just has to do with the way we take in new things. We recognize when something is novel and interesting, and then repeat it so as to better learn its ways through repetition. Then we get bored of it, which causes us to go seek something else. It’s a useful system for things that would’ve helped us survive long ago: understanding how rocks roll off a cliff, how water moves across a surface, how to throw and catch things, etc.
It’s probably something that those of us who are more prone to addiction tend to do. No research (that I know of) to back it up, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was true.
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For me it’s cuz my type of music (rock/metal), at least the stuff I like, there isn’t a lot of it. So when I finally hear something I like I tend to over so it till I don’t like it anymore. Then go thru a lul of nothing good. Till I hear something and so it again.
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