Clive Thompson on Nostr: Are there any songs in your life that got so overplayed you can never listen to them ...
Are there any songs in your life that got so overplayed you can never listen to them again?
For me, it's "Everybody Hurts" by REM
genuinely a great song
but it was so exhaustively overplayed back in the 90s -- licensed for just about every single weepy scene in any TV show or movie, on infinite loop on terrestrial radio -- that I reached some sort of lifetime saturation
I cannot hear it, even decades on now, a single time
it's like an allergic reaction
I need to *leave* the goddamn *room*
For me, it's "Everybody Hurts" by REM
genuinely a great song
but it was so exhaustively overplayed back in the 90s -- licensed for just about every single weepy scene in any TV show or movie, on infinite loop on terrestrial radio -- that I reached some sort of lifetime saturation
I cannot hear it, even decades on now, a single time
it's like an allergic reaction
I need to *leave* the goddamn *room*