Replied to Clive Thompson (@clive@saturation.social) (Saturation)

Are there any songs in your life that got so overplayed you can never listen to them again?For me, it's "Everybody Hurts" by REMgenuinely a great songbut it was so exhaustively overplayed back in the 90s -- licensed for just about every single weepy scene in any TV show or movie, on infinite loop on terrestrial radio -- that I reached some sort of lifetime saturationI cannot abide it, even decades on now, a single timeit's like an allergic reactionI need to leave the goddamn room

Clive, at fear of oversharing, I thought I would share my funny ‘Everybody Hurts’ experience. For music at school, every class had to sing a song together. Mr. F chose Bryan Adam’s ‘Everything I Do I Do It For You’. I cannot remember it was voted on, probably was. Anyway, my mother was mortified why a bunch of Year 7’s were singing a song about love and romance and complained to the school that it was inappropriate. So instead, my teacher had us sing ‘Everybody Hurts’. I guess that hurt and pain is something does not require age and maturity to appreciate?

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