Why do we tend to listen to a new song that we like over and over again and then we can’t stand hearing it anymore?
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Think about it as a mechanism for leaning new things in the world. Like how a baby might spin a wheel or play with some toy in a certain motion repeatedly. Then they get bored of it quickly. The desire to repeat the new action caused them to learn about its motion.
Without even relating it to music specifically, I’d say it just has to do with the way we take in new things. We recognize when something is novel and interesting, and then repeat it so as to better learn its ways through repetition. Then we get bored of it, which causes us to go seek something else. It’s a useful system for things that would’ve helped us survive long ago: understanding how rocks roll off a cliff, how water moves across a surface, how to throw and catch things, etc.
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