# Mental health situation of a person who plays the same damed 7 or 8 songs over and over daily? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 1, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health-situation-of-a-person-who-plays-the-same-damed-7-or-8-songs-over-and-over-daily/642644 "2012-12-01T03:17:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![FrancisCastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@FrancisCastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrancisCastle)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health-situation-of-a-person-who-plays-the-same-damed-7-or-8-songs-over-and-over-daily/642644/81 "2012-12-04T17:25:32Z")
My daughter played her One Direction CD so much that it actually stopped working. I didn’t even know that was possible. I just feel bad that her younger brother has to be subjected to that too (they share a room). He’s going to need therapy when he gets older. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GuyNexxtDoor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/90db22/32.png) [@GuyNexxtDoor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuyNexxtDoor)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health-situation-of-a-person-who-plays-the-same-damed-7-or-8-songs-over-and-over-daily/642644/82 "2012-12-06T17:38:44Z")
Im not sure which person is suffering from a **mental health situation**. . . your soon to be divorced spouse who seems content with her 8 songs, or her husband who seems to be at his “wits end” and in my observation is exhibiting signs of anxiety and rage. Seems obvious to me. Perhaps a solution to the “immaturity and fucking weirdness” would be for you to make a mature decision to have a discussion, or come to some negotiation regarding airspace. If not, get her earbuds for Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health-situation-of-a-person-who-plays-the-same-damed-7-or-8-songs-over-and-over-daily/642644/83 "2012-12-06T17:42:08Z")
> [@GuyNexxtDoor](#): > > Im not sure which person is suffering from a **mental health situation**. . . your soon to be divorced spouse who seems content with her 8 songs, or her husband who seems to be at his “wits end” and in my observation is exhibiting signs of anxiety and rage. Seems obvious to me. Perhaps a solution to the “immaturity and fucking weirdness” would be for you to make a mature decision to have a discussion, or come to some negotiation regarding airspace. If not, get her earbuds for Christmas. Thanks. I’ll get right on that. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health-situation-of-a-person-who-plays-the-same-damed-7-or-8-songs-over-and-over-daily/642644/84 "2012-12-06T20:28:08Z")
The only damed songs I listen to are when Heart covers Led Zeppelin in concert. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health-situation-of-a-person-who-plays-the-same-damed-7-or-8-songs-over-and-over-daily/642644/85 "2012-12-06T20:38:42Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Thanks. I’ll get right on that. Don’t worry - it’s only temporary insanity, with an end date. 🙂 Which is to say, yeah, you do sound a bit irritated, but for a very good reason. ---
**Author:** ![Orionizer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orionizer/32/4442_2.png) [@Orionizer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orionizer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health-situation-of-a-person-who-plays-the-same-damed-7-or-8-songs-over-and-over-daily/642644/86 "2012-12-06T20:50:19Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > In a depressed state of mind, I once pumped 20 quarters into a bar jukebox and hit the buttons for _Bellbottom Blues_ 20 times. Lucky I didn’t get the shit kicked outa me that night. “Please Mister Please, Don’t Play B-17!” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health-situation-of-a-person-who-plays-the-same-damed-7-or-8-songs-over-and-over-daily/642644/87 "2012-12-08T02:19:53Z")
She’s at it again. (Twitch. Twitch.) ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health-situation-of-a-person-who-plays-the-same-damed-7-or-8-songs-over-and-over-daily/642644/88 "2012-12-08T02:33:14Z")
I think at one time I had a song that had been played over 1000 times in my itunes. And that was racked up in just a month or two. I am a notorious offender of listening to the same song on repeat for hours at a time, or alternatively, a small group of songs over and over. I only do this with headphones on or when I am alone though 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health-situation-of-a-person-who-plays-the-same-damed-7-or-8-songs-over-and-over-daily/642644/89 "2012-12-08T03:24:22Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > She’s at it again. > > (Twitch. Twitch.) What songs are they, Leaffan? I’m dying to know! ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health-situation-of-a-person-who-plays-the-same-damed-7-or-8-songs-over-and-over-daily/642644/90 "2012-12-08T03:52:58Z")
> [@Arrendajo](#): > > What songs are they, Leaffan? I’m dying to know! I don’t know them all. There’s: Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together Carley Jepsen - Call Me Maybe Nicki Minaj - Starships And a handful of similar songs that I can’t find on Google 'cause I have no idea what the lyrics are and who the “artist” is. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health-situation-of-a-person-who-plays-the-same-damed-7-or-8-songs-over-and-over-daily/642644/91 "2012-12-08T03:52:58Z")
This might provide some insight: [Why you like to watch the same thing over and over](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-you-like-to-watch-the-same-thing-over-and-over) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health-situation-of-a-person-who-plays-the-same-damed-7-or-8-songs-over-and-over-daily/642644/92 "2012-12-08T03:57:14Z")
> [@KSO](#): > > This might provide some insight: > > [Why you like to watch the same thing over and over](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-you-like-to-watch-the-same-thing-over-and-over) No insight for me. I very rarely if ever watch a movie more than once. What’s the point? I know the ending. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health-situation-of-a-person-who-plays-the-same-damed-7-or-8-songs-over-and-over-daily/642644/93 "2012-12-08T03:58:59Z")
\*The band in Heaven plays my favorite song They play it once again, play it all night long \*—Talking Heads These lines are deliberate irony, because anyplace where the same song was repeated endlessly, no matter how much you may like it, would become seriously hellish. I’ve heard of some radio station that for a 24-hour period played “Stairway to Heaven” over and over and over. Much as I love that song, I’ve never understood how on earth anyone could take that without going stark barking mad, let alone _why_ anyone would want to do that. Way to destroy any shred of possibility of ever wanting to listen to it ever again. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health-situation-of-a-person-who-plays-the-same-damed-7-or-8-songs-over-and-over-daily/642644/94 "2012-12-08T05:55:35Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Get back at her by playing [this song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIR1KfKXH6s) over and over and over. No. The appropriate song would be [Shakaron](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTcYqLKfuac) > [@Chicken\_Fingers](#): > > Whoa, horrible flashback. She sounds like the lady who lived downstairs from me years ago. She blasted the same three or four Michael Jackson songs in a continuous loop, from 7 AM until 10 PM daily, for about two years. She got to be starting something. Sounds like the opposite of a PYT. > [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > The girl who lived below us in the dorms our sophomore year played “Any Man of Mine” and “Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?” back to back to back to back for approximately 3 hours a day, every single day, for _months_. So loud that we couldn’t hear our own tv. > > I still get a little twitch in my eyelid when I hear Shania Twain’s voice. Two words. Justifiable homicide. > [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Hmm, there was a recent “This American Life” story about some guy’s mentally retarded sister who listened to the same audio cassette on near infinite loop. Just saying. I heard that piece. It was kind of a sweet thing she had with her favorites on it, and IIRC it was almost worn out in a literal sense. If it had PSY, Carly Rae, or Minaj on it though, it would be pillow to the face time. I ain’t even playin’. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health-situation-of-a-person-who-plays-the-same-damed-7-or-8-songs-over-and-over-daily/642644/95 "2012-12-09T14:05:32Z")
I just spent the last 6-8 weeks listening to a particular ‘Chicago’ album over and over (and skipping the songs I didn’t care for). I listened to it at least 3 days a week, and usually twice a day, while driving to and from work, and at a very high volume. ‘Chicago’ just likes to be loud. I was wondering if that was nuts, but it really helped to set my mood for the work day, or helped unwind after a long day, and I often enjoyed listening to it in different ways. Sometimes I’d focus on the whole sound, and sometimes just the vocals, or just the bass line, or just the brass, etc. It was feeling a little OCD (which is an asset in my job- I like to say ‘I only use my powers for good!’), but I decided it was a harmless or even helpful OCD, so decided to not worry about it. The only other album I have done this with is David Grisman and Stephane Grappelli ‘Live’, which I have listened to for many, many years, also often in intense jags. I have tried to memorize that album in case I ever go deaf. Is that odd? I don’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health-situation-of-a-person-who-plays-the-same-damed-7-or-8-songs-over-and-over-daily/642644/96 "2012-12-09T15:59:05Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > That’s called “practicing” and “studying”\* Yup. I have 9 measures that I am working on for banjo. I’ll play them for hours at a time. My Wife lets me live because I’m a good cook. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health-situation-of-a-person-who-plays-the-same-damed-7-or-8-songs-over-and-over-daily/642644.md?page=4)