Ah, it's just me, then
In the past when I have fallen in obsession with a song, I used to write up long posts trying to explain why THIS SONG is objectively AMAZING. I then did not understand why everyone else was not flocking to listen to this song and then becoming equally obsessed. At first I thought I had just not explained it well enough, that perennial geek fallacy of "you do not agree with me, so I will repeat everything I said in my argument only now with extra details."
Then I thought that all the people I had assumed were reading or listening to me were not, in fact, reading my posts or listening to my enthusiastic explanations. That, in short, all the people who I had thought cared about my views and feelings did not care. This was depressing.
Then I just gave up, in confused bafflement. Maybe my friends just had bad taste in music? Idk.
At some point in the last few years, I learned that there is a thing that happens to people, and to certain kinds of neurodivergence more frequently, which is that a song or spoken text or certain noises are an aural stim. That some sounds, some of the time and to some people, make the dopamine rush happen. But, and this is the important part, these sounds are idiosyncratic and specific to individuals.
Oh.
Ohhhhhh.
All this time I was trying to explain some fucking aural stims to people.
Of course they didn't and do not feel the same way. They have DIFFERENT songs and sounds that scratch that brain itch for them. Ah. Yes. It's fairly obvious now.
All of which is to say that the recent NMIXX song, "Run for Roses," is 100% scratching the leg-kick-happy-itch spot in my brain, and I am listening to it multiple times every day. (Not too many, I don't want to wear it out too soon!)
Anyway, may you all enjoy your personal song-stims.
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do u ever start drawing and then realize how objectively unskilled you are because im going through it right now. why cant i draw shapes. is this my art block era
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nmixx my girls!!!! help i love this song - the fiddle???
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