![]() Meaning it takes longer for you before your brain realises that you aren't actually learning anything new. ![]() And maybe that spectrum is a bit wider for you than it is for your friends and colleagues. If you listen to something a bunch of times, it makes its way to the other end of the spectrum, and we stop learning anything new when we listen to it, which our biological systems are hypersensitive towards. What happens when I inevitably get sick of a song? The positive thing about music is that it is in no way harmful to people's survival. You don't need it to survive, but it's able to worm its way into our survival systems. ![]() It's the same thing that happens with music or drugs. Yes precisely, or if you're sat with a bowl of candy in front of you, and just can't stop stuffing your face even though you're full. Like if you're chronically jonesing for McDonald's? Food "addiction" can become unhealthy, though. You could say that you have a bit of an addiction, just like we all have with food. What makes me want to listen to the same tracks repeatedly? ![]() So it's hard to specifically compare it to music. It's not something I have first-hand experience with. But they have wildly different effects – or so I've heard from people that do them. We know that there is a lot of it coursing around in your brain when you do cocaine, amphetamine and those kinds of drugs. They all affect the dopamine system in some way. But narcotics affect the brain in different ways. Music has an amazing ability to work its way into our survival mechanisms. What type of narcotics are most similar to listening to music, dopamine-wise? There are also drugs that work by releasing more dopamine into our brains. We know that this is regulated by dopamine – the brain's natural dope. But then there are people whose arm hairs stand up, when they listen to music they like. There's no music that appeals to them, and they can't understand why other people spend time on it. It is documentable that listening to it generates no activity in their pleasure centres whatsoever. There are a few people that get absolutely nothing out of music. How it does so varies from individual to individual – music gets some people way "higher" than others. It's hard to explain, but we know music affects our reward system. So what's going on with my biology that has made my brain think I need to listen to Post Malone's "Rockstar" four to six times a day to survive? Music is also the art form with the most repetitions. After all, we rarely watch a movie or read a book much more than two or three times. These tunes combined to sell tens of millions of copies and spawned dozens of covers - she is literally one of the most sung-about humans in the history of the species, and her name is Pattie Boyd.Because of the reward system, music is probably the artistic product we reuse the most. This is the story of one such woman who inspired at least three of the most iconic love songs ever and is the subject of at least five songs overall (that we know of!). It has to be flattering regardless of how you're portrayed - whether your track falls into the "Your Body Is A Wonderland" or "You Oughta Know" category, at least you know you made an impression.īut within that select group is an even more elite subset of people who've gotten around enough that they became the subject of multiple hit songs, from different artists. These are the anonymous men who wish they had a platform to rebut Taylor Swift or Adele, or the unknown woman who tried to tell The Weeknd that he was probably having a stroke. ![]() Yet, there are still hundreds, if not thousands, such people walking the earth right now. Precious few of us will know what it's like to hear a hit song on the radio and be able to say, "That's about me!" If we do, we can only hope it's not on a Beyonce track called "Uber Driver Smelled Like Piss."Įven fewer of us will ever know what it's like to have a former lover pen a top-40 song about our time together. ![]()
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