If I find myself overplaying certain songs, I sometimes have to force myself to take a break because when I don’t, I usually end up ruining/disliking the song. I hate when this happens because perfectly good songs that I love end up irritating me because I have heard it too much. Do you stop listening to those songs or just play it as many times as you like?
EDIT: changed title to be open-ended.
I’m a performer, which means that I will listen to the same song probably hundreds of times while I write an act to it. My Spotify wrapped is literally just all the songs I performed that year (no Spotify, no one actually enjoys Imagine Dragons). I’ll sometimes hear the songs in my sleep. Send help pls.
I imagine the rules change, so to speak, as a performer. As with stage acting, that you somehow find a way both to separate and reinvoke the songs? And, I guess, musician dinthe same as OP, right? Fully or partially retire songs eventually
Yup. I avoid playing my favorite band’s music on repeat so I can enjoy their concerts and the occasions where I do listen to them more.
I’ve been listening to same shit for 30 years. New music is ruined as soon as I hear it because it’s not what I’m used to.
I don’t understand how that is possible. I switch which genres I am mostly into several times a year. I wish I could be one of those die hard fans that stick to the same stuff year in and year out. It seems so peaceful.
I currently mostly listen to german rap music.
Only to a handful of artists though because most are fake idiots whose texts don’t have meaning in them. It’s always the same and everyone just produces whatever they think will sell best, zero own personality in their songs
Peaceful, but boring
Not really. For me it’s a natural process. If I want to listen, I listen. If I don’t, I don’t.
My current playlist is 72 hours long without repeating. My entire collection is 189 hours long with 5 repeated songs, but there’s some holiday music in there. I’m trying to whittle the current playlist down to a round 25.5 hours, but you know, I’d have to get rid of stuff I like.
Dude I experience this PLUS my mind just has to have a song playing internally constantly, so even if I don’t actually play the song, my mind will beat it to death if it’s catchy enough
Great, this has just replaced some vim key bindings in my head. Thanks very much!
There was a time in my life when I was wary of wearing out certain songs, but now I just play them to death if that’s what I’m in the mood for. Life’s too short to deny yourself the pleasure of hearing a song that you really want to listen to…and if you DO get tired of your current earworm, so much? There’s so much great music out there that it shouldn’t be long before you discover something new that you can immerse yourself in.
Plus you can always come back to it in a few years and it’s nostalgic.
I played the shit out of Anna Molly by Incubus and whenever I listen to it I’m now reminded of the season of life I was living when I over listened to it hah.
I support this take. On principle, I retire bands and keep working to discover new music. Especially the type I find on bandcamp, where it’s just some dude in a random basement somewhere creating it
I have my own playlist, 5000+, wide variety: pop, rock, alt. (Separate list for jazz and metal).
I keep that on “random”. I frequently add music. Either a classic I hadn’t heard in a while or new music. About once a month I listen to Top 10 charts for: pop, rock, alt.
I also discover new artist through the show called: “Tiny Desk” from NPR. It’s a great show. Music from all genres. Mostly stripped down to basics. Gives a good sense of what the artist can do.
Tiny Desk is great. I want to trade collections with you but mine is my pride and joy. I’m very jealous of it. Mine sits just over 3000.
Ha, I hear ya. I’ve spent many hours on my collection. From CD rips, video converter, and of course plenty I’ve paid for. 1950s-now. Numerous original version of songs, e.g. “Remember(Walking in the Sand)” by Shangri Las… and the Aerosmith version.
This is why a streaming service works for me. Back when I had to buy music, I basically never did, so never really listened. Now that I can usually play something that I’ve never heard before, but is still similar to stuff I like, I play music all the time.
I understand the argument that artists get paid less for streaming, but I suspect the increased playing time makes up for it
This is a really good point. I wish I had the money to buy physical media, to support the artists I like. However, I listen to way too many songs and albums. Not only this but I enjoy shuffling music from different albums. I always use shuffle unless listening to new music.
OP, please reword your post to be an open-ended question. Thanks.
Thanks for reminder, done.
Oh this is partly how listening to music works for me. I’ll be listening to some particular songs in the moment repeatedly, get fed up of either all of them at once or one by one, then just stop listening to those that I get fed up of. I’ll then again listen to music when I again feel like listening to some particular music.
This is not directly related, but one reason I stop myself from binge watching TV shows is that if I end up watching too many episodes of a TV series at one go it can end up ruining the show for me, regardless of how great it may be, because watching too many episodes at one go makes me so fed up of the show that I don’t feel like watching it anymore. Binge watching almost ruined Breaking Bad for me; since then I make it a point to never watch more than 2 episodes of a show in a day. I generally restrict myself to one episode per day.
It is interesting how the brain works, I am the same.
That’s for sure!
I make lots of stations on YTM and there are some songs I liked that Google keeps overplaying so I eventually 👎🏽 them. Every station I make, Lazy Eye by Silversun Pickups. It was a good song a year ago, but next time I hear it I quit.
Have you noticed that if you start on one song or artist, hit radio, it will generate the same “radio” playlist in the same order every time. So then I started hitting radio then shuffle, the shuffle is ALSO somehow the same order ever time…
I dive hard into certain artists when find a song I like, but I find that my interest will naturally shift to other artists. For example, in 2022 Spotify put me in the top 0.01% for Seamus Kennedy because I found a funny song about a “greusome” moment. But I only occasionally listen to him this year. Right now I’m on a Dua Lipa binge because she put out a new good song with a hot music video. Never really gave her a chance before because I thought it was a weird band name. If I get bored and haven’t found anything new I’ll dive into something older too. Got on a Vengaboys and Limp Bizkit kick lately too.
I tend to binge a song or a whole album for a few days, then get sick of it and not listen to it for months
Playing off this, those tracks are like a diary for that period, however long. So I go back to them to recapture a period of time or a mood. Also there’s a weather and seasonal aspect to this. My music diet changes like my food diet diet does across the year
Like others in here, I find myself listening to whole records. Sometimes I’ll listen to a couple by an artist in a row.
I feel like I don’t listen to enough music. I try to sit down and actively listen to things when I can, but mostly I’ll get a record or two in while doing something mindless like dishes or yard work. Nothing gets overplayed this way.
