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Is it normal to listen to the same exact songs hundreds of times?

Hello people of Reddit. I'm here to ask all of you, as a means of self-diagnosis of whether I'm weird and have wasted my time or if there's other people that acutally listen to the same songs and artists hundreds of times.
I want to find a way to actually expand my music portfolio, if you may, and be able to tell someone who suggests me a random artist, "yeah I know them, they're cool/they suck" for once.

For some reason I can only find comfort in artists that have variety by themselves, in other words, singers without a pattern of fixed genre. It's like listening to a lot of songs withing a few artists.
Back in the day it was a way of coping for my suicidal ideations like with "Top 10 Things to Do Before You Die" and "Healthy End", with, and I'm not kidding, 400 repeats on each (Yonkagor, the first dude, has made a bunch of similar ones, and I think it totals to like 1200 with the others). I've started growing out of it, and have accepted myself, so I feel like clinging to this feeling is detrimental.

I also like listening to the same lyrics, dissociate, and look at them from different perspectives, make stories with them, like giving them a place to live in my brain. But I feel like this has gone for too long and I am starting to feel like "there are no more good songs" when apparently there are so many other groups with such beautiful lyrics and composition.

It's not supposed to be a therapy thread, so I feel like Rule 9 doesn't apply. It's just more of a grounding analysis of others where I've given some context of the reason I want to leave it behind and experience new stuff. Correct me if I'm wrong though

Posted Jun 12, 2026, 8:17 PM UTC

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