It's like forgetting the words to your favorite song

You can't believe it; you were always singing along

It was so easy and the words so sweet

You can't remember; you try to feel the beat

-- Regina Spektor, Eet - https://youtu.be/nlK0zYZLBGY

That was one of my repeat songs!

My experience with albums (LPs, remember?) was that a handful of songs would attract me fairly quickly, while other's were, meh.

It was good that there were songs that hooked me early because I would wait patiently through the less-appealing songs for those good ones.

Some months or so later, the tracks had flipped — burned out on the hooky songs, loving the once-meh songs.

(I can specifically remember this to be the case with both Murmur and Reckoning when they came out — yes, I am old.)

Once I checked the stats and I had listened to a single specific song 150 times in a single year. I wouldn't be surprised if I've reached 500 by now

What song?

(I might have hit that count with Lebanese Blonde by Thievery Corporation a few years back...)

I'm the complete opposite. Playing music on repeat ruins it. But if I listen to a song/album relatively rarely, it feels just as good every time. I also notice new subtle details once in a while, and that makes it even better.

I have songs that I absolutely love and have loved for years now. I just make sure not to overdo it.

Feel like this is probably a better way to manage it if I'm being honest. Actually, this is a bit of a similar way I'd listen to jam bands (Grateful Dead, Phish, Railroad Earth, etc.) Usually too long to listen to on repeat, but interesting enough to listen to many times and pick up on things.

For me, I think short term this is kinda how it works. Although a point I'd make is that is not that I enjoy it less often, it's just that I move onto other things.

Long term though, songs I loop like this can always return and restart their cycle. So it doesn't completely ruin it for me or anything after a few days.

For me the enjoyment fades only if the song itself is not very good to begin with; I start to notice the flaws and after a while I start to hate it and wonder why I even liked it in the first place. Good songs tend to pass the test of being listened to on repeat for me.

And then it's time to find your next fix.

In a year or two, that song might be able to bring you back to that point in time. I've started building playlists by the year I discovered the song. It's a trip.