i've always been somebody who is perpetually tormented by having a song stuck in their head, usually an embarrassing one, but having one you're working on stuck in your head is vastly worse. it's like oh, okay, i can't solve this, but it's just gonna hang there *wrong*. thanks.
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@h_thoreson iirc there's a passage in an old Nick Hornby novel where he posits that pop songs are puzzles that you want to listen to intensively until your brain 'solves' them -- at which point they can just go into the rotation -- which seems to track well with what you describe, but from the listener's perspective.
@h_thoreson that's good, it's where the art comes in. good luck with it!
@Pipski thank you!
@Pipski yes. exactly, I don't know how I ended up making that type of music tbh. It's not what I listen to, but then when I went to make something it just came together