People get annoyed when you listen to the same song over and over. Not me. I listen to a particular song multiple times until I have had enough. To me, a song is like a delicious beverage. I prefer to consume it in its entirety sip after sip, and I have a pretty good reason to justify my transgression.
It is a widely common experience that music has the power to capture our precious little moments. But that is not it. Our brains are sufficient to store such information. Music can capture the general mood, the emotions associated with that particular memory, aka the nostalgia. The notes and beats serve as the bits for our brain. The melody, not so much the lyrics, captures the feelings and emotions. One play of any song and you have a snapshot of the particular memory safe and authentic for you to get back when you want to re-experience it. But you can’t do with just one snapshot. Every time you listen to the song it captures a single frame of that experience. For it to last for a considerable amount of time you need as many frames as you can capture. So you have to listen to it multiple times. On top of that, the snaps also need to be continuous for the memory to be precise when you get back to it. That implies you have to squeeze those ‘multiple times’ during that course of that short experience-A day or two.
There is a short story by O. Henry in which a homeless man who wants to go to prison but after every attempt fails music falls to his ears which remind him of his sweet childhood and he decides to change his life for good. (That feeling doesn’t last for long though as he is arrested soon).
So a song for me is like a Morty’s Mind Blower and my playlist is a safe vault of my memories. Anytime I experience a positive or negative feeling I choose a song that fits the mood(It is confusing for a gloomy and sad song to remind you of happy times) and listen to it again and again till my friends force me to wear a headphone.
