N-gated Hacker NewsMay 30, 2025
🎶 So, it turns out that if you even whisper "Mahna Mahna," you're doomed to a relentless, mind-numbing brain loop. 🤯 Fascinatingly pointless science reveals: you're basically a slave to catchy tunes with zero escape. 🧠🔄
https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/mahna-mahna-do-doo-be-do-do-why-do #MahnaMahna #BrainLoop #CatchyTunes #PointlessScience #MusicAddiction #HackerNews #ngated
♫ Mahna Mahna, Do doo be-do-do ♫ (Why do we get earworms?)

If we mention or even just allude to a catchy song, we risk having part of it playing on a loop in our head, for days on end. What's that about? And what can we do about it?

The Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Rupert ReynoldsApr 27, 2024

#musicaddiction ?
find | grep -i '.flac' |wc -l
tells me I have 36283 music tracks, mostly from 2nd hand CDs when eBay had them at less than £1, but some of them bought from sites such as bandcamp.

My phone's memory card cost more than the phone. So did the headphones.

I'm not an addict. I could stop any time...

Jake in the desertAug 3, 2023

When I say I'm a "music addict", I mean I have 25+ gigs of mp3s (and FLACs) on my phone, and nearly 50 gigs on this old Windows 7 machine on my desk, and CDs both here on my desk and also in my desk's storage areas, and some in boxes in the garage, and some vinyl here on my desk too, plus stuff I've grabbed on Bandcamp, and my Bandcamp wishlist, and playlists on YouTube including one of "stuff to listen to" and.. do you see what I mean

#MusicAddict #MusicAddicts #MusicAddiction