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Clive Thompson

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 REM

genuinely a great song

but 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 saturation

I cannot abide it, even decades on now, a single time

it's like an allergic reaction

I need to *leave* the goddamn *room*

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