Re:Why we listen to new music
by Razengan on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @05:48AM
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Does anyone else grow "numb" to a track after listening to it for a while? 400-500 plays seems to be the limit for me, and the period between plays doesn't seem to matter, after which it evokes no pleasing feelings, and even causes a little annoyance as if some part in the brain is "sore" from it.
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Hedonic treadmill.
Try putting that track into your random-shuffle collection; you might get some more miles out of it that way. That's what I do for my housework music: whether it's in a pocket mp3 player or 'mpg123 -C -Z *mp3', it's all familiar tracks that roughly fit the mood, and the familiarity of the tune is there but there's just enough surprise from its being up next to make it pleasant without being distracting.
Re:Why we listen to new music
by gigantecmedia on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @05:51AM
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me too! happened to me a while ago with Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool, Kanye West‘s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Frank Ocean.
But after like a few months when our brains come back to “normal” stage again, the music seems to get back to usual