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Round about the time the Bryan Adams film tie-in "Everything I do, I do it for you" was at number one in the UK singles chart I remember a friend saying that despite its clear vileness, there was no way you could end up not liking it in some way, on some level, purely because one heard it everyday, in every shop, radio station and TV show.

So do endless replays and repetition as found in the playlists of say, Capital FM, which I am forced to listen to by colleagues, have strange, magical effects on your taste, or quite the opposite?

― Peter, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No. I didn't mind that Shaggy song until my boss decided he was going to put it on repeat for three hours - now i feel physically sick when i hear it.

― dog latin, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i've heard the shaggy single about 600 million times now, and i still think its great

― gareth, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The worst thing is a song you hate but which you can't get out of your head once you hear it. Most of the works of Queen and ELO fall into that category for me, so anywhere that has Capital Gold on is to be avoided at all costs.

― Paul Steeples, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Who let the dogs out..." does have magical effects on me: it makes my head spin around while green goo comes out of my ears.

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The constant Radio 1 airplay for "Ms. Jackson" didn't put me off it at all; indeed it made it sound greater, more widespread, made me feel vindicated. "It Wasn't Me" is another example of a song that loses nothing through such repetition.

If a song is shit in the first place it just worms its way harder into your mind with constant exposure and becomes even more fucking enervating. The Oasis era was an outstanding example of this; had "Don't Look Back In Anger" been recorded by some forgotten small- timers I'd probably find its pomposity perversely charming, because it had never been forced down my throat.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Seen those Halifax averts the 'Who gives you Xtra' keeps prodding my frontal lobe

― Geordie Racer mk 2, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

daft punk's around the world was a killer for me after a few listens

― Kevin Enas, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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